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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
NEW YORK — Warner Bros. Discovery is briefly reopening takeover talks with Skydance-owned Paramount to hear the company’s “best and final” offer, while the Hollywood gian...
February 17, 2026 Business
Officials at Summit Academy have reported that a student has left the grounds and is believed to be in the area. They said the student is not dangerous and are advising r...
February 17, 2026 Local News
Calling all business owners, leaders, investors and curious minds alike. The Butler County Chamber of Commerce has opened up tickets to its Butler County Emerging Entrepr...
February 17, 2026 Business
BUTLER TWP — With emergency medical service agencies facing economic uncertainty, they have begun to reach out to the municipalities they serve for help keeping their ser...
February 17, 2026 Local News
After spending nearly 30 years serving the Butler community, Emigh Jewelry Co. is planning to head south to Cranberry Township. Emigh Jewelry has been located at 540 Butl...
February 17, 2026 Business
LANCASTER TWP — Lancaster Township is under new management. Supervisors unanimously appointed Butler Township native and Mars resident Bonnie Forsythe as the township’s n...
February 17, 2026 Local News
FRANKLIN TWP — The township board of supervisors passed a motion to advertise a community cleanup event during the second weekend in May. The first day of the event, Frid...
February 16, 2026 Local News
MARS — The borough is in the middle of deciding between two vendors for its next emergency alert notification system. The choices come down to the Smart911 Rave Alert sys...
February 16, 2026 Local News
The managers of multiple mobile home parks in Butler County have less than a week to submit a plan on “multiple outstanding violations” found by Pennsylvania’s Department...
February 16, 2026 Local News
Sister John Ann Mulhern ‘Lived and breathed Butler Catholic School’
February 16, 2026 Local News
Other News
Muslims worldwide will begin daily fasting from dawn to sunset as Ramadan starts, marking a period of worship, reflection and charity. The holy month, the ninth in the Is...
February 17, 2026 International News
DNA from gloves found a few miles from the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie did not match any entries in a national database, authorities said Tuesday, the 17th day of her d...
February 17, 2026 National News
PUEBLO, Colo. — Four people died in a pileup involving over 30 vehicles, including six semitrailers, on an interstate in Colorado Tuesday after blowing dirt made it hard ...
February 17, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., arrested an 18-year-old man Tuesday after he ran from his vehicle towards the west side of the Capitol Building arme...
February 17, 2026 National News
SANTA FE, N.M. — State legislators in New Mexico launched an investigation Tuesday into past activity at a secluded desert ranch where financier and sex offender Jeffrey ...
February 17, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and ...
February 17, 2026 National News
AUSTIN, Texas — Late-night host Stephen Colbert said his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was pulled from Monday night’s broadcast over net...
February 17, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters, killing 11 people in one of th...
February 17, 2026 National News
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania man who spent 43 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned — only to be taken straight into immigration custody — was deni...
February 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after ...
February 17, 2026 National News
Sports
Forgive Anastasia Manchester for having a darker sense of humor. She’s endured more tragedy than most her age. Or maybe don’t. She’ll laugh about it anyway. The Butler gi...
February 17, 2026 Sports
SOUTH PARK, Allegheny County — Moments after Jaisa Gaillot and Nia DiSanti saw the book close on their high school basketball careers, they posed for pictures and took tu...
February 16, 2026 Sports
CRANBERRY TWP — Already accustomed to producing on the court, North Catholic girls basketball junior guard Brady Wehner has taken on added responsibility this season. Wit...
February 16, 2026 Sports
A Knoch-North Catholic Part 3 will have to wait a few rounds. But if it happens, it’ll set the stage for the WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball championship game. The WPIAL a...
February 16, 2026 Sports
The WPIAL girls basketball playoff pairing were announced Monday, with four Butler County teams getting set for postseason play. WPIAL Section 1-6A co-champions Seneca Va...
February 16, 2026 Sports
Here are the Butler County wrestlers who qualified for next week’s boys and girls district championships in the WPIAL and District 10 (seedings included where available):...
February 16, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, Feb. 16 Girls Basketball 7 — WPIAL Class 4A first round: Freeport at South Park 7 — WPIAL...
February 16, 2026 Sports
Editorial
As Americans recover from a barrage of Super Bowl food coupled with ads suggesting we eat even more — made light of in a funny and self-aware Uber Eats campaign starring ...
February 17, 2026 Other Voices
Every married couple remembers how they first met and fell in love with their spouse, whether it be through attending the same church or school or using the same dating a...
February 17, 2026 Our Opinion
February 17, 2026 Cartoons
Community
Most people view beauty pageants as competitions for looking good. For veteran pageant contestant Samantha Roth, they’re more about feeling great. “They (pageants) build ...
February 17, 2026 Community
Also hosting history wall exhibit at Cranberry Township
February 17, 2026 Community
Just like hobos traveled the nation to find work in the 19th and 20th centuries, Steve Cicero travels Butler County to find audiences for his historical presentations and...
February 16, 2026 Community
There was a little too much snow in Butler County on Feb. 16, 2010, for area drivers and too little snow in Vancouver for Olympic athletes. However, it was just about per...
February 16, 2026 Time Capsules
In addition to donating more than $70,000 to Highmark Caring Place since 2017, Fun Fore All, an amusement center in Cranberry Township, has given passes to numerous famil...
February 16, 2026 Community
South Butler Community Library nearly reached its $32,000 goal in its annual community fundraising campaign this year. A donation from PennEnergy brought its total amount...
February 16, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
Emerald Fennell’s bold reimagining of “Wuthering Heights” brought crowds of women to movie theaters this weekend. The Warner Bros. release topped the box office charts an...
February 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Logan Paul has set a new world record — for the auction price of a trading card. The wrestling and social media star’s rare Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon card, ...
February 17, 2026 People
The Emma Thompson-led thriller “Dead of Winter” and Hilary Duff’s first full-length album in 11 years are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a d...
February 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
February 17, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. — 1 John 3:11 ...
February 17, 2026 Verse of the Day
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