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.
JACKSON TWP — During a meeting Thursday, Feb. 19, supervisors approved the formation of an oversight committee for Harmony EMS through the Southwestern Butler Council of ...
A house fire just off Route 356 caused a large enough response from emergency crews it blocked off the only entrance in and out of a housing development and slowed traffi...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit slipped modestly in 2025, a year in which President Donald Trump upended global commerce by slapping double digit tariffs on imports f...
The National Weather Service has put Butler County under a flood watch, warning of “potential ice jams through Friday afternoon.”
The flood watch, which expires at 1 p.m....
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-8th, is hosting a Firearm Owners Against Crime event from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Mars Rod and Gun Club, 205 Gun Club Lan...
Utility work along Franklin Road is set to continue as part of a multiyear safety improvement project in Cranberry Township, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation...
A former Penn Christian Academy teacher with criminal charges in two cases stemming from his tenure teaching at an Allegheny County school had his charges held for court ...
A Pittsburgh man accused of kidnapping a woman Saturday in Butler told police he was going “on a rampage” after the U-Haul he was driving was stopped in Adams Township, a...
A 67-year-old Butler woman was identified as the individual who died Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Pittsburgh Road and Decatur Drive in Butler...
EVANS CITY — A Valencia man who was ordered not to return to The Goddard School in Adams Township testified in a Wednesday, Feb. 18, preliminary hearing the incident behi...
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday declared four men who were wrongfully accused of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders innocent, formally clearing their names in ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief pac...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sitting in the stands at a hockey game, Michael Black heard what he thought was popping balloons before quickly realizing it was gunfire. As dozens of ...
LONDON — The former Prince Andrew was arrested and held for hours by British police Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to Jeffrey E...
PHILADELPHIA — Workers on Thursday began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved at the former President’s House in Philadelphia amid a content...
LONDON — U.K. police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
The police force did not name Mountbatten-Windsor, as i...
SODA SPRINGS, Calif. — Six women killed in the deadliest avalanche in the U.S. in decades were part of a close-knit group of friends who were experienced backcountry skie...
We are inching closer to a Knoch-North Catholic rubber match.
The Knights cruised through last week’s WPIAL Class 4A playoff opener, and both teams are the presumptive fa...
MILAN — Megan Keller backhanded in a shot 4:07 into overtime and the United States won its third Olympic gold medal in women's hockey, beating Canada 2-1 at the Milan Cor...
Special Olympics and unified bocce athletes around Butler County recently celebrated various achievements at the end of their seasons.
At Knoch, ninth-grader Mason Kriber...
Seneca Valley girls basketball head coach Dorothea Epps was named the Class 6A Section 1 Co-Coach of the Year this week when the Big 56 all-section teams were released.
E...
In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a “Rainbow Coalition,” start to threaten th...
It’s a truism those experiencing the Industrial Revolution would have recognized immediately: The world is increasingly wider than our own backyard.
The march of progress...
Play bingo for a chance to win plant prizes — like starters and gardening goodies — on April 19.
Glade Run Lutheran Services is hosting “Plant Bingo” to celebrate Earth D...
LOS ANGELES — The Oscars are reuniting last year's acting winners for next month's ceremony.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that best...
The day after our country’s sesquicentennial, Evans City will host the “A Voice For Liberty” 250th anniversary musical event on Sunday, July 5, at the Evans City Cemetery...
The Slippery Rock University Honors Flute Ensemble will have its final performance this weekend.
The ensemble, which is made up of honors students in the flute program at...
Steve Cicero — a former history teacher in Butler Area School District, who is now known as the History Hobo — will lead “Highway to History,” a presentation on Perry Hig...
