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.
Change is coming to two Butler County lumber stores at the start of 2026.
Both H.P. Starr Lumber Company locations, which can be found in Middlesex and Jackson townships,...
During their final meeting of the year on Thursday, Dec. 18, Jackson Township supervisors adopted the 2026 budget, a move that keeps the real estate tax rate unchanged bu...
The Butler County sheriff’s license to carry firearms office is closing at noon Dec. 24 and will reopen at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 26, Sheriff Mike Slupe said.
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The owner of Oilology in Cranberry Township had two more cases filed against him citing deceptive business practices Friday, Dec. 19.
In one case, Keith R. Smith, 69, of...
The Butler Area School District is waiting for a contractor to fix a leaky roof on the senior high school cafeteria.
Superintendent Brian White said the cafeteria is part...
Before heading off for Christmas break, students at Karns City Elementary School got a chance to celebrate the season early on Friday, Dec. 19.
Students in various class...
State police filed six summary traffic citations against a Butler man for striking a tree on Osche Road in Clearfield Township and abandoning his disabled pickup truck at...
Property owner expresses desire to purchase instead
Karns City Area School District is preparing to demolish the former Sugarcreek Elementary School next year for new ath...
Property owners in the city of Butler can expect to see a lower tax bill this coming year after a 25% decrease to the municipal tax rate was finalized.
City council voted...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department released thousands of files Friday about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the incomplete document dump did not break signif...
To those who argue that the U.S. penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ.
In fact, they doled out millions for the final pennies circulated in the U.S. be...
BALTIMORE — Cyclist Barnaby Wickham has collected more than 700 lost hubcaps, mostly on bike rides around Baltimore. They have inspired a quest to turn litter into art, i...
DETROIT — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship...
WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center on Friday quickly added Donald Trump's name to the performing arts center Congress designated as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy, a d...
A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement....
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighed in on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts and defended the Trump administration’s increasing military pressu...
TORONTO — Canada and the U.S. will launch formal discussions to review their free trade agreement in mid-January, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. ...
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead i...
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin emphasized Friday that Moscow’s troops were advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and voiced confidence the Kremlin would achieve ...
ADAMS TWP — Ethan Kresinski made a hard drive from the right wing into the paint with less than five minutes to play.
Denied getting to the rim, he turned, stumbled and f...
ROSS TWP — Getting to North Hills for Friday’s WPIAL Section 1-6A clash with the Indians did not come without difficulty for Butler’s girls basketball team.
The game itse...
ADAMS TWP — More than a week between games, multiple days off school unexpectedly, a personal matter — the excuses were there.
Mars girls basketball couldn’t quite pinpoi...
Teegan Finucan (15 points), Roman DeFelice (14), Liam Avon (12) and Vincent DeFelice (10) each poured in double-digits for Knoch Friday night as it downed Highlands 58-37...
PITTSBURGH — The offense-starved Pittsburgh Pirates finally made an aggressive offseason move, agreeing to acquire two-time All-Star second baseman Brandon Lowe from Tamp...
Stainton Forbes wasn’t feeling like himself.
A painful hip injury refused to let up, and the optimism he had about healing had given way to discouragement and a whole lot...
Sen. Chuck Schumer demands that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth share video footage and explain why a second military strike was needed on a boat said to be filled with nar...
As a history buff I have enjoyed reading the America 250 series of articles. As an “old newsman,” I know that a guiding principle is to always “look for the local angle ...
I am not a resident of the Karns City Area School District but I read in the Butler Eagle that the Sugarcreek Elementary School building was to be demolished.
I called th...
A Butler native had a firsthand encounter with danger and heroism recently, and his rescue is a reminder of the people who are out there to protect us.
As we learned in t...
“Quiet, piggy”
“Stupid person”
“You’re the worst”
“Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious, a terrible — actually a terrible reporter, and it’s always the same thing w...
Last week, the Senate voted NOT to extend ACA subsidies, turning their backs on the American people and igniting a health care crisis that is already exploding at the bed...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week.
Lun...
Rotary Club of Cranberry Township — Sunrise recently honored students from Rowan Elementary School as the November and December Students of the Month.
Fourth-grader Reese...
The Harrisville Satellite Rotary Club in partnership with the Rotary Club of Slippery Rock provided enough instruments to make up an orchestra to Broad Street Elementary ...
The following area residents have been named to the Dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Kettering University
Evans City: Peyton Jones
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Carol and Donald McCollough Jr., of Center Township, recently celebrated 60 years of marriage with a family dinner in Butler.
McCollough married the former Carol Myers on...
SpongeBob SquarePants just wants to be a big guy. For our bubble blowing, Bikini Bottom resident (voiced by Tom Kenny), that means reaching the coveted height of 36 c...
Tis the time of year for making merry, and also for changing seasons. That’s what we’re doing at 9:03 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21, the moment of the winter solstice, the firs...
When I came down with a cold the day after I saw the third and latest “Avatar” film, “Fire and Ash,” I half-wondered if I had picked it up on Pandora.
The promise of Cam...
