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.
GREELEY, Colo. — Thousands of workers for the world’s largest meatpacking company began a two-week strike Monday in Colorado, threatening to make already costly beef eve...
MERCER TWP — The township’s board of supervisors used its meeting on March 16 to discuss revisiting and updating the township’s Agriculture Security Council in an effort ...
After a wrong-way crash on the Fort Duquesne Bridge in Pittsburgh, a Butler woman fled on foot, according to state police.
Lindsay K. Kleeman, 41, of Butler, is to be ch...
A fire on Tuesday morning, March 17, destroyed a building containing tractors along Browntown Road in Mercer Township.
The fire, reported just before 10:50 a.m. at 311 Br...
A Parker teen was taken to the hospital after his vehicle rolled over in Center Township, state police said Tuesday, March 17.
The crash occurred at 10:24 a.m. March 11 a...
FRANKLIN TWP — At their monthly meeting on Monday night, March 16, the board of supervisors gave local construction company Specialty Precast the green light to go ahead ...
BUTLER TWP — The township is looking to complete 19 different asphalt projects on its roads and curbs this summer, along with 13 seal coat projects.
The Butler Township ...
The following Butler County schools are operating on adjusted schedules for Tuesday, March 17, 2026:
Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District - 2 Hour Delay
Butler Area...
TOKYO — Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during h...
ATLANTA — Travel disruptions continued Tuesday in the U.S. as airlines worked to recover from a powerful storm system that had already snarled flight schedules a day earl...
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed Tuesday to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey E...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jurors in Akron began deliberating Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their alleged roles in a sweepin...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that had been planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world p...
WASHINGTON — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his concerns about the justification for militar...
WASHINGTON — Republicans launched an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won't pass — an attempt to cap...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A suspected meteor that fell over the Cleveland area on Tuesday shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion.
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LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in London on Tuesday for talks with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the British government said, as European co...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the Islamic Republic's leadership as it faces its greatest test in de...
Butler boys volleyball is off to a 2-0 start after sweeping Mars 3-0 Tuesday at Mars.
The Golden Tornado won each set 25-10, 25-18, 25-11. Andrew Slaugenhaup had 11 kills...
CRANBERRY TWP — Tough to argue argue with the numbers.
Early on, Peters Township didn’t present much of a quarrel.
For a good portion of Tuesday night’s PIHL Class 3A Pen...
Highlights and updates from the past few weeks:
Butler grad Rock named All-Region indoor track athlete
Butler graduate and Westminster College freshman Aubrey Rock was li...
For the second year in a row, it’s North Catholic’s boys and girls teams left standing from Butler County in the PIAA basketball tournaments.
The Trojans and Trojanettes ...
The 2026 Penguins Cup playoffs begin Feb. 23, starting with Class A.
Butler takes on North Catholic in a battle of Butler County teams in a play-in game Tuesday, Feb. 24....
The PIAA’s newest sport has officially kicked off — well, there aren’t kickoffs in it but the point stands.
With the inaugural girls flag football season upon us, here ar...
Pennsylvania high school girls flag football is taking another step forward this spring.
The season officially began Friday. This is the first year the sport is officiall...
The Butler County Board of Commissioners should be applauded for making it possible for the Butler County Hazardous Response Team 100 to respond to large-scale hazardous ...
The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas. What the American spy agency has in mind is far more prosaic:...
In March, 2008, Michael Cichra, 13, of Butler Township, became the first Elite Athletic Center gymnast to win a state championship.
The Knoch Middle School seventh-grader...
Elliott Acres Therapy Riding is having volunteer orientation on Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. until noon at 168 Headland Road in Summit Township.
The organization will...
Portersville Christian School will host a “Let Your Light Shine” Legacy Gala on Saturday, March 21, at the Butler Country Club.
The event honors alumni who have let their...
LONDON — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97.
Deighton’s literary agent, Tim ...
NEW YORK — Books on homelessness, the U.S. Census and ancient India are among this year’s winners of prizes handed out by the J. Anthony Lukas Project, named for the lat...
Verah Vucelich, 3, kicked away from the side of the pool, a small foam backpack strapped to her chest, as her instructor encouraged her from a few feet away.
In adjacent ...
