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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
Volunteers and attendees marked Good Friday with a fish fry at the St. Wendelin Church Hall as the traditional season for foregoing meat on Fridays observed by some Chris...
April 04, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania state police is accepting applications from men and women for cadet training to become state troopers. Applications should be submitted via the state’s emplo...
April 04, 2026 Local News
MARS — After Jesus, the star of the show at St. John Lutheran Church of Mars on Good Friday, April 3, was Pete the donkey. Pete served as a calm, welcoming, roughly 500 ...
April 04, 2026 Local News
EMS agencies can’t count on being paid
April 04, 2026 Local News
The current emergency medical services crisis facing Butler County isn’t the first. While the county commissioners are funding ongoing training programs for emergency med...
April 04, 2026 Local News
The Tri-County Workforce Investment Board has opened up applications for scholarships aimed to help students looking for an education in technology fields. Scholarships a...
April 04, 2026 Business
Most travelers flying with United Airlines will pay $10 more to check their luggage beginning on Friday, as higher jet fuel costs driven by the war in the Middle East pus...
April 03, 2026 Business
EVANS CITY — Four local churches came together Friday to walk Main Street, carry a cross and mark Good Friday with prayer and song in remembrance of Jesus’ crucifixion an...
April 03, 2026 Local News
Prospective students who attend an upcoming Butler County Community College Pioneer Night can explore programs, review opportunities and learn how credits transfer to fou...
April 03, 2026 Local News
WASHINGTON — American employers added a surprisingly strong 178,000 new jobs last month, rebounding from a dismal February. And the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%. The ...
April 03, 2026 Business
Other News
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In rain, snow and bitter cold, a steady drumbeat of small protests have been held in recent months on the Ohio State University main campus with a single...
April 04, 2026 National News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California filed its 66th lawsuit against President Donald Trump since he took office 62 weeks ago, this time challenging his executive order to cre...
April 03, 2026 National News
UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. — State police troopers came to the rescue of a bear cub found in a ditch along the side of a major interstate highway in northern New Jersey. Troope...
April 03, 2026 National News
LONDON — Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan...
April 03, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, refle...
April 03, 2026 National News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV washed the feet of 12 priests in the traditional Holy Thursday ritual, restoring a tradition his predecessor had broken by including laypeople and non...
April 03, 2026 International News
HARRISBURG — A judge cleared the way Thursday for the potential release of an Indian citizen who was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody last year afte...
April 03, 2026 Pennsylvania News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV will personally carry the wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking t...
April 03, 2026 International News
Iran targeted more sites in Arab Gulf states overnight and into Friday, hours after President Donald Trump issued fresh threats against Iranian infrastructure to pressure...
April 03, 2026 International News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon . NASA released the crew’s first d...
April 03, 2026 National News
Sports
Chris Gardner and his Knoch softball assistant coaches know by now that Emersyn Jones is prone to thump pitches over outfielders’ heads. Having watched the then-freshman ...
April 04, 2026 Sports
When it comes to closing out a playing career, one would be hard-pressed to top what Jackson Krock just contributed to. The 2019 Mars Area High School graduate, a senior ...
April 04, 2026 Sports
Freeport pitchers Ashton Bricker and Jeffrey Coller limited Karns City to one earned run on two hits in a 13-3, six-inning baseball victory Friday in Russellton. The Yell...
April 03, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Southwestern Butler County is working together again and that should be applauded. In the latest news out of four municipalities in the southwestern part of Butler Count...
April 03, 2026 Our Opinion
The children from the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school, a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, should have been sitting in classrooms, giggling with their friends and dreaming ab...
April 03, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lunch is ...
April 04, 2026 Senior
March of Dimes will have its 56th annual March for Babies Walk on Sunday, April 12, at Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh. The event is happening around the nation to provide...
April 03, 2026 Community
A new National Alliance on Mental Illness Butler County support group is starting in April for LGBTQ+ allies. The LGBTQ+ Allies Support Group is for family members, frien...
April 03, 2026 Community
From the crook of your arm to the veins of a person in the hospital, units of blood can travel thousands of miles from the time it is donated to its destination of a pati...
April 03, 2026 Community
Announcements
Nora Eyth, of Oakland Township, celebrated her 95th birthday on March 31. The former Nora Adams was born on March 31, 1931, in Kaylor, Pa. Eyth has four children, Shirley...
April 04, 2026 Birthday Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
Two couples. Too much wine. One loaded question: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? The revelations that tumble from that truth-or-dare-style drinking game badly te...
April 04, 2026 Reviews
There are some things you might expect, even count on, in a Super Mario Galaxy movie. The introduction of the celestial Princess Rosalina? Check. A scene of her reading b...
April 04, 2026 Reviews
Other
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand ...
April 04, 2026 Verse of the Day
April 03, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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