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Read the latest news from today along with all of the articles published yesterday to the website in preparation for the current print edition of the Butler Eagle.
Local News
FORWARD TWP — In response to numerous complaints from township residents, the board of supervisors revealed during its monthly meeting on Thursday night, May 14, it is wo...
May 15, 2026 Local News
Butler City Farmers’ Market will be receiving its bathroom on May 28, Mayor Bob Dandoy announced at a city council meeting Thursday. The bathroom will be delivered and in...
May 15, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — A record 106 graduates of Butler County Community College’s registered nursing program took a big sigh of relief Thursday evening, May 14, as their hard work...
May 15, 2026 Local News
Municipality advertises job posting for replacement
May 15, 2026 Local News
The South Tower at Allegheny Health Network’s Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh is set to receive a $36 million renovation. The 22-story facility is set to undergo...
May 15, 2026 Business
CRANBERRY TWP — The Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber of Commerce honored six standout businesses, nonprofits and individuals Thursday during its annual awards gala, cele...
May 15, 2026 Business
The NASA official is already looking toward what the next mission may have in store.
May 15, 2026 Local News
The southbound lane of Route 19 near the Zelienople Bridge will be closed Wednesday, May 20, while the bridge undergoes preservation work. The closure is expected to last...
May 14, 2026 Local News
A Red Lion, Pa., man is accused of assaulting a man at a Taco Bell in Slippery Rock. Christopher Lee Powell, 22, was charged Wednesday, May 13, by Slippery Rock police w...
May 14, 2026 Local News
A North Apollo man is accused of harassing a Buffalo Township business. Spencer Thomas Baker, 21, was charged Monday, May 11, by Buffalo Township police with one misdeme...
May 14, 2026 Local News
Other News
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is investigating Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina over allegations that he created a hostile ...
May 14, 2026 National News
MIAMI — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence not with fireworks or empty platitudes, but by standing u...
May 14, 2026 National News
The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation's frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in A...
May 14, 2026 National News
BEIJING — As President Donald Trump wraps up his whirlwind visit to China on Friday, he’s insistent that relations between the world’s two biggest powers are good and get...
May 14, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he issued an executive order to restrict voters’ ability to cast ballots by mail, attorneys for Democrats ...
May 14, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsu...
May 14, 2026 National News
A federal jury has awarded $49.5 million to the family of a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia while traveli...
May 14, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Thursday unleashed a third straight day of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, demolishing an apartment building in Kyiv where nine pe...
May 14, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank, authorities said Thursday, ...
May 14, 2026 International News
Sports
No. 1 seed. Ten-game winning streak. Only three losses all season. Butler baseball is in a position no Golden Tornado team has been before. When Butler (17-3) takes o...
May 15, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Before Paul Skenes. Before Konnor Griffin. Before Bubba Chandler. Before Henry Davis, there was Endy Rodriguez. An athlete behind the plate who hit 25 homer...
May 15, 2026 Professional
BUTLER TWP — It did not turn out to be the early night Butler boys volleyball had set itself up for, but in the end the Golden Tornado were still standing after Thursday’...
May 14, 2026 Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK — Butler wasn’t at its best, but it was still better than anyone else. The Golden Tornado’s 4x800-meter relay — made up of seniors Logan Rogers and Ethan Th...
May 14, 2026 Sports
Mars boys lacrosse made sure four-goal leads stuck just enough to win 8-7 over No. 6 Bethel Park in the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals Thursday. Reed Fuller recorded a hat ...
May 14, 2026 Sports
Butler has been one of the best baseball teams in the WPIAL and was rewarded as such with the top seed in the Class 6A tournament. The district playoff brackets were rele...
May 14, 2026 Sports
Butler County boasts four teams in this season’s WPIAL softball playoffs, which get underway next week. Seneca Valley, seeded No. 2 in Class 6A, received a bye to the sem...
May 14, 2026 Sports
In its quest for a fourth consecutive WPIAL Class 2A championship, Mars girls lacrosse was tabbed as the top seed in the district playoff tournament. The brackets were re...
May 14, 2026 Sports
The WPIAL released its boys volleyball playoff brackets Friday, and two Butler County teams remain in action after the first round. In Class 3A, Butler (14-4) is seeded N...
May 14, 2026 Sports
The Pittsburgh Steelers will host Denver in a 3 p.m. Black Friday game this season. And while that won’t get in the way of the dates of the WPIAL football championships, ...
May 14, 2026 Sports
Editorial
For generations, farmers in Butler and surrounding counties have worked the land, battling the natural tendencies of Pennsylvania soil. While modern fertilizers and high...
May 15, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Even in the worst areas of light pollution, you can’t miss Venus. After hiding out in the morning sky most of the last half of 2025, it has finally entered the Western ev...
May 14, 2026 Starwatch
The following area residents were named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Southern New Hampshire University Butler: Estera Jablonska,...
May 14, 2026 Community
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Cedarville University Butler: Chesna Tomko Cranberry Township: ...
May 14, 2026 Community
CRANBERRY TWP — While it takes a lot of focus and time for Wendy Clibbens to complete her yarn projects — like one she is working on now for her coming second grandchild ...
May 14, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of Robin G. Manuel who passed away on May 15, 2022. There is not a day that we do not think of you. Loved and sadly missed by Stephanie and Jane ...
May 15, 2026 In Memoriams
BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE In loving memory of Bob Hancheck, Sr., whose birthday is May 15. Remembering you is easy, I do it every day! The reason why I say it, it’s been five year...
May 15, 2026 In Memoriams
In loving memory of our very dear aunt, Geraldine "Tek" Fair who passed away May 15, 2009. Things we feel most deeply, are the hardest things to say Dearest Annie, we lov...
May 15, 2026 In Memoriams
Catherine Tilko, of Center Township, celebrates her 102nd birthday May 17. The former Catherine Dellich was born May 17, 1924, in Williamsburg, Pa. She married Stanley L....
May 14, 2026 Milestones
Gianna Cafasso received a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Marketing, with a double minor in Music Industry and Graphic Design from Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio. She gr...
May 14, 2026 Graduates
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Clarence Carter, the blues and soul musician and singer-songwriter with the raspy, emotional vocals whose hits included the sentimental “Patches” and the salac...
May 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Decades after the last “Godfather” movie and more than 10 years since the last “Godfather” novel, the story of the Corleone crime family has a new chapter, pre...
May 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
The World Cup final will feature a star-studded halftime show headlined by Madonna, Shakira and boy-band BTS. FIFA has announced that, for the first time, the final at t...
May 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
May 15, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that ful...
May 15, 2026 Verse of the Day
May 14, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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