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.
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
June 27 — Mackenzie Paige Peters, 29, of Butler, was charged with felony hi...
Two executives from Butler-based NexTier Bank have been named to the Pennsylvania Bankers Association‘s 2025-26 board of directors.
Clem Rosenberger, CEO of NexTier Bank,...
Butler County senior citizens can receive $25 in farmers market vouchers if they earn under $28,953 annually, or under $39,128 if married.
The county received vouchers t...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Borough council approved amending the municipality’s animal ordinance to include language for cats on Tuesday, July 1, in a unanimous vote.
The topic fir...
Cranberry Township is set to continue its partnership with the community’s sole emergency medical services provider.
At a meeting on Thursday, June 26, supervisors approv...
Center Township officials have applied for a grant in hopes of funding a $1.2 million project to replace traffic signals at two intersections on Route 8.
According to Sup...
At a Forward Township supervisors meeting June 12, Mark Wilson stepped down as chairman of the board, handing the position to Susan Oliver-Stough.
Wilson’s term will expi...
After the U.S. Senate passed a GOP-designed budget reconciliation bill by a 51-50 vote, the two U.S. Senators for Pennsylvania find themselves at odds along their party l...
Former Grove City College president Paul McNulty is participating in an educational speaker series alongside former Vice President Mike Pence in November.
The Jefferson ...
MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 2 cyclone on Tuesday off the Pacific coast of Mexico and could become a major hurricane before weakening later ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and warned Hamas to accept the deal before conditions wors...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is halting some shipments of air defense missiles and other munitions to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles of such supplies have decline...
LAMAR, S.C. — A deputy trying to arrest a suspect in a South Carolina home was ambushed, shot and killed early Tuesday while a second officer was wounded, authorities sai...
LONDON — The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time.
King Charles III has accepted it’s time to decommission the train, whose history dates back to...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who became a household name amassing an enormous following and multimillion-dollar ministry only to be undone by his penc...
WASHINGTON — New Trump administration rules that give millions of people a shorter time frame to sign up for the Affordable Care Act’s health care coverage are facing a l...
KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian drone struck a Russian industrial plant some 800 miles from Ukraine, a local official said Tuesday, after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky...
CONCORD, N.H. — A woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont wants to delay the government’s decision on whether to seek the death penalty by at ...
Elon Musk’s feud with President Donald Trump — and seemingly any congressional Republicans who support the president's massive tax cuts and spending package — has reignit...
In 2022, Lexie Hames took to the pitching circle for the first time as a freshman for Seneca Valley’s varsity softball team.
She admits there were things she needed to le...
It was the Year of the Pitcher.
It’s not uncommon for a high school baseball team’s best athlete to also be a stud pitcher, but Butler County’s aces took things to anothe...
Mars graduate and St. Louis Cardinals farmhand JJ Wetherholt was named to the 2025 MLB All-Star Futures Game on Monday.
Among the 50 players included on those rosters, We...
PITTSBURGH — Catcher Henry Davis drove in the game's only run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning and preserved the lead with a tag at the plate in the ninth, givin...
The Pittsburgh Penguins made a move at the start of NHL free agency, shipping goalie Alex Nedeljkovic to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for a 2028 third-round pick.
The ...
WASHINGTON — The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school...
For more than a decade, President Donald Trump has been scapegoating immigrants, decrying them as criminals and vermin and vowing to deport them by the millions.
The Amer...
Sam Baker built his house from the ground up — literally.
To construct his rustic, weathered-wood home, the Renfrew man mostly used salvaged materials from dismantled bri...
