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.
A Butler County judge is considering the county’s appeal of a state Office of Open Records determination ordering the county to release inmates names to a faith-based Mer...
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School District is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to help with repairs in and around the intermediate elementary school.
K...
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — With the open comment period for a proposed $9.15 million Act 537 sewer plan set to end Saturday, residents are down to their last days to give feed...
MIDDLESEX TWP — After months of searching, the board of supervisors chose its successor to Jeffrey Winkle as township manager — former New Castle mayor and city administr...
For four months, residents of the 12th State House District have not had representation in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
An Aug. 18 special election will fi...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
July 22 — Sammantha Layne Boucher, 39, of Saxonburg, was charged with misde...
LAS VEGAS — Airline passengers know to expect possible flight delays when weather forecasts call for thunderstorms, heavy snow or strong wind. The omens are less obvious ...
CHICAGO — Video game giant Electronic Arts officially has new owners.
The California-based maker of popular titles like “Battlefield” and “The Sims” announced Tuesday th...
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military famili...
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee voted along party lines Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on hi...
ROME — Italy placed all its major cities under the highest heat alert Thursday as a blistering heat wave gripped Europe, setting a national temperature record in Austria,...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Firefighters have taken advantage of cooler weather to begin getting a handle on wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of people around Washing...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge decried efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as he reluctantly dismissed the seditious conspiracy case a...
CAIRO — Iran said Wednesday it is in the “final stage” of drafting an agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. President Donald Trump has said a deal could...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian attacks on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded dozens, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, as Ukraine’s deplete...
GUATEMALA CITY — Authorities in Guatemala have ordered evacuations in some southern communities around the Fuego volcano, which is erupting.
Claudinne Ogaldes, executive ...
Butler’s varsity football team hasn’t beaten Seneca Valley on the football field in 7,224 days. That drought will continue for the time being.
The Golden Tornado and Raid...
VERONA — Jane Wymer is enjoying quite a week on the golf course.
Wymer, 58, of Penn Township, won her 13th Butler Country Club women’s championship Tuesday. She followed ...
Auto racing may predominantly be a man's world, but some talented young women are making their mark at Lernerville Speedway.
Macey Adamik, a 17-year-old who will be a sen...
The Pittsburgh Pirates released struggling veteran designated hitter Marcell Ozuna on Wednesday as they gear up for a playoff push.
The club made the move following a nig...
Dan Robinson isn’t sure anyone shares with him the feat he recently achieved.
The Mars resident, formerly a Chrysler National Long Drive Champion and now a golf coach, ha...
A nearly-90-year-old herald of the Atomic Age is on its way to Butler County.
While there is no solid timeline for the move yet, the world’s first Van de Graaff generator...
I recently joined the board of my Manhattan co-op and I love it. One of my duties is reviewing applications for apartments, which — as both a prospective neighbor and a r...
The following area residents have been named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Kent State University
Center Township: Victoria Nebel
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After a $500,000 donation from Slippery Rock University alumni Joe and Pam Finney, the university will launch a new finance lab in the fall. Students in the Haverlack Col...
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 ...
A book’s home might be dictated by its order in the Dewey Decimal System, but materials in the Butler County Federated Library System might spend months or even years awa...
“House of the Dragon” creator George R.R. Martin has been struggling with depression.
The fantasy writer whose “A Song of Fire and Ice” series inspired HBO’s “Game of Thr...
Friendship Presbyterian Church’s Second Saturday Concert will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at the church’s community center, 866 New Castle Road, Slippery Rock....
Zelienople will come to life with music, lively conversation and dancing as the Shindig Charity Music Festival returns to Zelienople Community Park.
The festival, which w...
Zelienople is hosting its first Creative Crawl from Friday to Sunday, Aug. 7 to 9.
A collaboration between four of the borough’s art studios, it offers time to relax and...
Tents will line Saint Ferdinand Parish’s parking lot in Cranberry Township again as Divine Grace Parish hosts its annual family festival Friday to Sunday, Aug. 7 to 9.
Th...
Wow, Butler. You are sure keeping busy this summer!
I’ve been thoroughly impressed with the community-led events this year — the ones that benefit a certain cause, and ev...
The Butler Farm Show office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday.
All gates open at 8:30 a.m.
DAILY ADMISS...
Live music is a staple at the Butler Farm Show. This year, several bands return to the stage for the first time in years, while two bands return from last year.
All of t...
Almost every morning before school, Nolan, Dylan and their mother, Misty, Thurber head down the lane of their Fenelton family farm and, before they hit Route 422, they tu...
One of the most exciting events at the Butler Farm Show is the annual cheese auction, which takes place Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m.
The cheese auction is not only spec...
In 1947, a plowing contest was held on the Jack Roe property in Meridian.
This was the birth of an idea to get the city folk, business owners and farmers together to bett...
Every morning at 3 a.m., while most of Butler County is still sleeping, Jeff Ansell begins the first of two daily milkings with his father-in-law, Lou Boyle, and a farmha...
A wide variety of musical acts, playing in genres from bluegrass to gospel to classic rock, will take the stage at the Armstrong Pavilion to entertain Butler Farm Show vi...
