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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
A Butler County man was sentenced Thursday for assaulting a man in September at a hotel in Cranberry Township; and for a hit and run in 2024. Jakob M. Honaker O’Brien, 27...
April 30, 2026 Local News
A Butler County Prison inmate accused of stabbing a man to death was found with two metal shanks, according to Butler County detectives. Richard A. Swann II, 37, of Butl...
April 30, 2026 Local News
Grove City College has officially broke ground on its new nature classroom near its Early Education Center on campus. The Early Education Center’s nature classroom is bei...
April 30, 2026 Local News
A new children’s gym is set to open in Cranberry Township offering sensory safe play for kids with autism, special needs and neurotypical development. We Rock the Spectru...
April 30, 2026 Business
With spring in the air and summer around the corner, more Pennsylvanians are taking to the great outdoors. Of course, that means more Pennsylvanians are exposing themselv...
April 30, 2026 Health
A Pittsburgh woman is fulfilling her father’s wish by sharing the story of how he survived the Holocaust and came to America. Lee Goldman Kikel presented on her 2019 memo...
April 30, 2026 Local News
A former Middlesex Township man serving a long prison sentence after being found guilty of sexual assault charges in Butler and Allegheny counties in 2014 is challenging ...
April 30, 2026 Crime & Courts
Raising the state minimum wage could be the right decision, if “done wisely,” the president of the Pittsburgh North Regional Chamber said in a recent interview about a pr...
April 30, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Residents of Mars and Adams Township will get a third chance to voice their thoughts on the proposed merger of the two municipalities during a joint public hearing at Twe...
April 30, 2026 Government
MARS — Lambasting the war in Iran, gas prices going up as a result, Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations “causing chaos in the streets,” and attacking corruptio...
April 30, 2026 Local News
Other News
WASHINGTON — After weeks of delay, the House voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and send...
April 30, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clashed with Democratic lawmakers in Congress for a second day Thursday, rejecting senators’ accusations that the Iran war was...
April 30, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The Senate has approved a bipartisan resolution to prevent its own members from using prediction markets, banning senators who are often privy to sensitive i...
April 30, 2026 National News
LONDON — Two Jewish men were stabbed and injured on a London street on Wednesday, in what police called an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicio...
April 30, 2026 International News
The number of fatalities on Pennsylvania roads last year was the lowest since records began being kept in 1928. Traffic fatalities in the Keystone State in 2025 numbered ...
April 30, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Butler County’s delegation to the Pennsylvania House is in total agreement: a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2029 is misguided. All four local representativ...
April 30, 2026 Pennsylvania News
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — It's not every day — or even every decade — that voters are presented a decision like this: Should the state's individual income tax be eliminated? ...
April 30, 2026 National News
Glass shards flew everywhere as Eric Gockel waited out one of the worst hailstorms to hit Missouri. One of the softball-size hunks of ice that hit the Springfield area on...
April 30, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence there as he co...
April 29, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Making his first appearance before Congress since the Trump administration went to war against Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced withering questioni...
April 29, 2026 National News
Sports
The high school track and field season continues on, with the postseason already here. Take a look at the Butler County-area track and field leaders in each event as of A...
April 30, 2026 Sports
A group of Butler athletes signed to continue their careers in college on Wednesday. Take a look at the gallery below to see who’s going where. ...
April 30, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — Butler girls lacrosse coach Abbie Roetering was not happy about Wednesday’s 11-9 loss to North Hills that closed the WPIAL Section 2-3A slate, but she apprec...
April 29, 2026 Sports
Weston Cook had a pair of hits, including three RBIs, as Moniteau downed Clarion-Limestone 10-0 in five innings of baseball action on Wednesday. Ian Ross, Carson Minnear ...
April 29, 2026 Sports
Clarion’s pitchers gave a little. The Bobcat hitters took a lot. Trailing 9-1 in the fourth inning Wednesday night at Pullman Park, Karns City pulled within three runs in...
April 29, 2026 Sports
Editorial
April 29, 2026 Cartoons
The Butler County Chamber of Commerce took a unique approach to encouraging business initiative this year with the first Butler County Emerging Entrepreneurs Shark Tank C...
April 29, 2026 Our Opinion
The resignations of three members of Congress over misconduct allegations demonstrate that the U.S. House — which most Americans think can’t get its act together — not on...
April 29, 2026 Other Voices
Community
The Associated Artists of Butler County announced the winners of the annual Butler County High School Exhibit at the opening night reception Friday, April 24. Alessia Ham...
April 30, 2026 Community
Allegheny-Clarion Valley High School hosted “Get Tangled in Memories With Us” for its 2026 prom, which took place Saturday, April 25, at the Allegheny Grille Timberframe ...
April 30, 2026 Community
I hope you enjoyed the full moon on Friday night to kick off May. It’s considered by many cultures as the Flower Moon for obvious reasons. We're not done with full moons ...
April 30, 2026 Starwatch
Ian McClelland, of Scout Troop 6, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout, Scouting’s highest honor, through the Moraine Trails Council of Scouting America. Ian officially ach...
April 30, 2026 Community
League has nine youth teams, 17 adult league teams
April 30, 2026 Community
Student teams from Haine Elementary and Haine Middle schools have earned invitations to the KidWind World Championship, May 17 through 20 at the University of Wisconsin-M...
April 30, 2026 Community
Concordia will host its free Fishing Derby from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at Saxony Farm Estate, Addy Boy Lane, Saxonburg. The derby is for children ages 14 and ...
April 29, 2026 Community
On Saturday, May 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. a Star Wars- and Lego-themed experience is planned in Zelienople through an event at Bricks & Minifigs. The event is set to fea...
April 29, 2026 Community
Four movie screenings and five musical performances are scheduled in Cranberry Township between June 10 and Aug. 13. The movies are: “How to Train Your Dragon” on June 10...
April 29, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
David Allan Coe, the country singer-songwriter who wrote the working-class anthem “Take This Job and Shove It” and had hits with “You Never Even Called Me By My Name” and...
April 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
“Deception and Murder at Rosebud” — a murder mystery production that is written, produced and performed by members of the Passavant Community in Zelienople — offers both ...
April 29, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
The National Alliance on Mental Illness Butler County is having its annual golf scramble later this month, to raise money for its support groups, classes and other progra...
April 29, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Have you ever anticipated something with so much enthusiasm you think you may burst? Impatience is something we all struggle with, myself included. We want to skip past t...
April 29, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Event takes place May 15 in Zelienople
April 29, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Historical society puts months of research into storytelling event
April 29, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark will have a picture book out this fall based on her own life, one she knows is like few others’. Random House Books for Young Readers announced T...
April 29, 2026 People
Other
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. — Job 19:25 ...
April 30, 2026 Verse of the Day
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