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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 — Samsung is saying goodbye its namesake texting app. According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant's U.S. support website, Samsung Mes...
April 06, 2026 Business
A Butler County man has filed a lawsuit against a woman who he said struck him with her vehicle in August 2024 while he was jogging in Zelienople. Gregory Price and his w...
April 06, 2026 Crime & Courts
WASHINGTON — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that an interest rate hike could be appropriate if inflation remains persistently above the central bank's 2% targ...
April 06, 2026 National News
Two Beaver County residents are accused of selling drugs out of a Cranberry Township hotel. David Lee Lyons, 64, of Beaver Falls, and Crystal Dallas, 46, of Koppel, were ...
April 06, 2026 Local News
The Zelienople Borough Police Department is spreading awareness of the laws surrounding e-bikes as temperatures begin to rise. According to the state Department of Trans...
April 06, 2026 Local News
Sunday, April 5, marked the holiest day on the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday, as Butler County residents flocked to churches for services. One of the largest service...
April 06, 2026 Local News
Real Estate Transactions These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from Jan. 12 to 16: Adams Township Far View Farms Development to NVR at 3063 T...
April 06, 2026 Real Estate Transactions
Children got a chance to add a little challenge to their Easter egg hunts this year. Fairview Township hosted a glow-in-the-dark egg hunt for children up to fifth grade S...
April 06, 2026 Local News
A group of individuals was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a PennDOT driver license center in West Kittanning, Armstrong County, on Friday afterno...
April 05, 2026 Local News
General Motors Co. on Wednesday reported it sold nearly 10% fewer vehicles in the past three months compared to the same time last year, when sales boomed ahead of antic...
April 05, 2026 Business
Other News
HAVANA — Two U.S lawmakers called for a permanent solution to Cuba’s crises after witnessing the effects of a U.S. energy blockade during an official visit to the island....
April 06, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a Supreme Court order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal convic...
April 06, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — There are many ways to win an I Love My Librarian Award. You might be a fighter against book bans, like Valerie Byrd Fort at the University of South Carolina;...
April 06, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones...
April 06, 2026 International News
TEHRAN, Iran — Israel struck a key petrochemical plant at Iran’s massive South Pars natural gas field and killed two paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commanders on Monday...
April 06, 2026 International News
TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tues...
April 05, 2026 National News
HERSHEY, Pa. — A toddler was lightly injured by a wolf at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after he crawled under a fence and stuck his hand into the animal’s enclosure, off...
April 05, 2026 Pennsylvania News
President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline. A defi...
April 05, 2026 National News
RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two firefighters traveling in a utility vehicle along a Pennsylvania road during a search for a missing woman were killed in a head-on crash with...
April 05, 2026 Pennsylvania News
McALLEN, Texas — For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her m...
April 05, 2026 National News
Sports
Making history became a theme this season for Knoch boys basketball senior Teegan Finucan. Shortly after he broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a career, which...
April 06, 2026 Sports
Jence Rhoads expanded her family’s basketball legacy growing up A 2007 Slippery Rock High School graduate, Rhoads became an all-state basketball player for the Rockets an...
April 06, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, April 6 Baseball 4 — Wilmington at Slippery Rock Girls Flag Football 3:30 — New Cast...
April 06, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — The NFL draft coming to Pittsburgh later this month is a big deal for the city. The league’s signature offseason event will span three days and is expected t...
April 06, 2026 Professional
PITTSBURGH — Rickard Rakell scored twice, Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 Sunday. The teams faced off S...
April 05, 2026 Professional
PHOENIX — Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday to win its first NCAA championship in women’s basketball. Th...
April 05, 2026 College
PITTSBURGH — Ryan O’Hearn homered and matched a career high with four RBIs as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-2 Sunday to sweep a three-game series an...
April 05, 2026 Professional
A Seneca Valley product has turned a Division II program into a national champion. Easton Bazzoli, a 2013 Raiders grad, and the Gannon University men’s basketball tea...
April 05, 2026 Sports
There’s a portion of the lower Allegheny River — found within a several mile stretch that spans two navigation dams — that often excels at producing quality-sized smallmo...
April 05, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Zelienople keeps proving itself to be a community of tight-knit people who will help one another when a fire strikes a business and apartment and also plan holiday festiv...
April 06, 2026 Our Opinion
April 06, 2026 Cartoons
South Asia has had three youth-led revolts and three changes of government — and still has three countries with problems that haven’t changed a bit. In February, Banglade...
April 06, 2026 Other Voices
Community
New and experienced home gardeners can prepare for the growing season by attending an upcoming workshop led by Penn State Extension Master Gardeners. “Spring into Gardeni...
April 06, 2026 Community
Experience the North Country Trail at two April events organized by the Butler County chapter of the North Country Trail Association. There will be a meeting Wednesday, A...
April 06, 2026 Community
MIDDLESEX TWP — For John Porter, certain work days remind him to tell the people in his life he cares about them before it’s too late. He has found — in just a year of wo...
April 06, 2026 Community
The South Butler Community Library is holding a bingo game fundraiser event at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 11, at Bastin Distillery on North Isabella Street in Saxonburg For ...
April 06, 2026 Community
Maddox Grupp, of Cranberry Township Boy Scout Troop 403, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout on March 30, 2026. For his Eagle Scout project, Maddox worked with Mike Manipol...
April 06, 2026 Community
A traditional Easter egg hunt is a lot of fun, especially for children. I certainly enjoyed them when I was young — about a hundred years ago! It’s also a lot of fun to ...
April 05, 2026 Starwatch
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Yup, she wore something blue. Zendaya, surprising precisely nobody on the planet, showed up in dazzling blue at Thursday’s New York premiere of “The Drama,...
April 06, 2026 People
Other
In Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace. — Ephesians 1:7 ...
April 06, 2026 Verse of the Day
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