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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
A prisoner on furlough is now in state police custody after he attempted to flee into the woods Sunday morning, May 10. State police were called to the Fairground Market ...
May 10, 2026 Local News
Negotiations with Independence Health stalled, union says
May 10, 2026 Local News
PHILADELPHIA — The inside job began sometime after midnight at the factory in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood where the work never stopped. The trading card industry bo...
May 10, 2026 Business
HONG KONG — China’s exports rose 14.1% in April from a year earlier, the government said Saturday, despite the Iran war and lingering impacts from higher U.S. tariffs. T...
May 10, 2026 Business
The world has burned through oil inventories at a record speed as the Iran war throttles flows from the Persian Gulf, eating into the very buffer that protects against su...
May 10, 2026 Business
The Trump family media group posted a net drop of $405.9 million in the first quarter, largely driven by unrealized losses in cryptocurrencies held by the company. Trump ...
May 10, 2026 Business
An active structure fire in the 900 block of Center Avenue in the City of Butler has closed the road to traffic Sunday morning, May 10. City of Butler Bureau of Fire, But...
May 10, 2026 Local News
If the walls of the Ritts mausoleum at North Side Cemetery could talk, they might share stories of how one member of the family, Elias Ritts, helped found the YMCA and th...
May 09, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — Dozens of motorcyclists rode to the American Legion Post 778 Saturday morning, May 9, to get their bikes blessed by religious leaders in preparation for ridi...
May 09, 2026 Local News
Release day Saturday is the culmination of school project
May 09, 2026 Local News
Other News
WASHINGTON — Weeks before his trip to China, President Donald Trump was already predicting on social media that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, would “give me a big...
May 10, 2026 National News
The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday said it is gathering information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines plane after it hit and killed a person on...
May 10, 2026 National News
TENERIFE, Canary Islands — The first passengers to be evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship now anchored off Spain's Canary Islands arrived Sunday afternoon in M...
May 10, 2026 National News
HARRISBURG — While Pennsylvania’s two major party candidates for governor are both prioritizing helping rural communities, their approaches to some major issues — like ho...
May 10, 2026 Pennsylvania News
CONCORD, N.H. — In 1985, a 13-year-old girl in New Zealand spotted a pair of purple, lip-shaped sunglasses in “Young Miss” magazine. In March, I traveled 9,000 miles from...
May 09, 2026 National News
Sports
Butler has been one of the best baseball teams in the WPIAL and was rewarded as such with the top seed in the Class 6A tournament. The district playoff brackets were rele...
May 10, 2026 Sports
Butler County boasts four teams in this season’s WPIAL softball playoffs, which get underway next week. Seneca Valley, seeded No. 2 in Class 6A, received a bye to the sem...
May 10, 2026 Sports
In its quest for a fourth consecutive WPIAL Class 2A championship, Mars girls lacrosse was tabbed as the top seed in the district playoff tournament. The brackets were re...
May 10, 2026 Sports
The WPIAL released its boys volleyball playoff brackets Friday, and three Butler County teams will be in action beginning next week. In Class 3A, Butler (14-4) is seeded ...
May 10, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers had been in town for a couple days, but as of Saturday afternoon the Steelers had not met with him and instead have been talking with his agent...
May 10, 2026 Professional
It was a record-breaking week for two Mars track and field athletes. Colton Rearick broke Zach Leachman’s marks, set in 2019, in the boys 1600-meter race and 1-mile with ...
May 10, 2026 Sports
Butler County golf results from this week: GOLF Armstrong Ladies League May 7 Points standings: Palmer’s Plungers 10, Hale’s Heat 9, Putt Sinkers 8, Pl...
May 10, 2026 Sports
SAN FRANCISCO — Nick Gonzales and Joey Bart each had four hits, Brandon Lowe drove in four runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates had a season-high 20 hits in a 13-3 victory ove...
May 10, 2026 Professional
Not all par-5s are unbeatable monsters. Some can give a golfer an opportunity to shake off a bad bogey the hole before or build momentum with an layup of a birdie opportu...
May 10, 2026 Sports
It’s been a series of Western Pennsylvania false springs of late, but golf weather is increasing in regularity in the Butler area. And that means one thing: time to get o...
May 10, 2026 Sports
Editorial
I find it incredible that my tax dollars for education are being used to teach kids how to make graffiti. They cannot keep the kids engaged with worthwhile activities and...
May 09, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Community
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — For it’s 26th year, Kids Day America returned to the Butler Farm Show grounds to deliver hands on education and experiences to the community’s child...
May 09, 2026 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 ...
May 09, 2026 Senior
If you are a brunch person, then you may have noticed a new dish in town, sitting comfortably in recent years alongside longtime favorites like Eggs Benedict and French T...
May 09, 2026 Recipes
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May 09, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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