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Election certified in 12th House District
The Butler County Bureau of Elections has officially certified the results for the state 12th House District special election held Aug. 18. The special electio...
Butler school district’s first day of school sees range of emotions
BUTLER TWP — Charles, an eighth-grader at Butler Intermediate High School, and his brother, sixth-grader Mason, nervously arrived for their first day at a new s...
All smiles at Karns City’s first day of school
CHICORA — Karns City Area Elementary School’s hundreds of students poured off their buses and into the drop-off zone Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, returning to a ...
The 3 rivalries — new and old — that will define the 2026 Butler County football season
T.J. Wiley wasn’t sure exactly what he was looking at when he was cleaning out his new office last year. “It was kind of like in the corner, hidden,” the se...
Week 1 PIAA football predictions: Who starts 1-0 between Butler, Karns City-Moniteau, Mars-Seneca Valley, more?
Everyone starts 0-0, including the Butler Eagle sports staff. The PIAA football season is a day away, and eight county-area games are on the docket. Fans get a ...
Election certified in 12th House District
Election certified in ...
Butler school district’s first day of school sees range of emotions
Butler school district...
All smiles at Karns City’s first day of school
All smiles at Karns Ci...
The 3 rivalries — new and old — that will define the 2026 Butler County football...
The 3 rivalries — new ...
Week 1 PIAA football predictions: Who starts 1-0 between Butler, Karns City-Moni...
Week 1 PIAA football p...
Top Headlines
Parking and traffic restrictions will be in place Friday, Aug. 28, and Saturday, Aug. 29, while Butler Italian Days takes place. According to Butler police Chief Bob O’Ne...
August 27, 2026 Local News
CHICORA — A defense attorney and assistant district attorney disagreed on whether a Marion Township man’s actions negligently endangered a child after he was accused of f...
August 26, 2026 Local News
Some new events have been added to the schedule for Moraine and McConnells Mill state parks. Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m.: Join the Moraine State Park naturalist at the Pleasan...
August 26, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
OAKLAND, Calif. — Meta agreed Wednesday to pay up to $18 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms as part of a landmark lega...
August 26, 2026 Business
With a new state budget signed into law in July, Butler County’s school districts are making plans for what to do with their adequacy appropriations. A bipartisan $50.85 ...
August 26, 2026 Local News
News
VillageFest, which pulls upward of 15,000 visitors into Slippery Rock for a day of vendors, food and live music, returns Sept. 12, continuing its recent tradition of alig...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Slippery Rock, on paper, is a small borough of about 3,500 residents just missed by both Route 8 and Interstate 79, but its population and activity skyrocket for eight mo...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Jesse Pattison and Shawn Zappia are familiar faces in the Slippery Rock Area School District, dedicating their daily lives to their students and the institution shaping t...
August 27, 2026 Local News
The second annual 16066 BBQ Bash will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Cranberry Township Municipal Center’s Armstrong Great Lawn, 2525 Rochest...
August 27, 2026 Local News
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. SHEEP Border Leicester Yearling Ram Lamb, Willem Meiser, Butler Champion R...
August 27, 2026 Local News
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Community
Mars High School Class of 1971 held a 55-year high school reunion Saturday, Aug. 22, at Th...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Before Zeeno’s Firehouse BBQ and Grill set up shop in Slippery Rock with the owner’s signa...
August 27, 2026
This fall, the Slippery Rock area offers plenty for locals and visitors to do. Aug. 2...
August 27, 2026
With Butler Italian Days set to return for a second year, its organizers are hoping it wil...
August 26, 2026
Good Samaritan Hospice, a mission of Concordia Lutheran Ministries, will host a free weekl...
August 25, 2026
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Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Becoming a high school football head coach for the first time at age 6...
 
WPIAL Quad County Conference Team Conf. Ovr. Canon-McMillan 0-0 0-0 Central...
August 27, 2026
Labor Day used to mark the beginning of school and the end of summer. Nowadays, back-to-sc...
August 27, 2026
Mars’ Finn McKenzie fired a 33 to lead a quintet of Planets coming in under 40 in a 183-18...
August 26, 2026
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Talk about your similarities. Slippery Rock University enters its 2026...
August 26, 2026
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Editorial
August 25, 2026 Cartoons
Breaking records can be a good thing — but not in the case of school bus crashes. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, 2025 re...
August 25, 2026 Our Opinion
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's visible decline in her final years in office, Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s own recent hospitaliz...
August 25, 2026 Other Voices
The national debt has ballooned under Republican control. During the president’s first term, he added $7.8 trillion to the national debt. So far in th...
August 22, 2026 Letters to the Editor
The story in the July 12 Butler Eagle showcasing the 41 county adults who gained their GED diplomas (“Residents earn diplomas through BC3 programs,” P...
August 22, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a groundbreaking new drug for advanced pancreatic cancer, offering U.S. patients a...
August 26, 2026 Business
Independence Health System and Allegheny Health Network have received statewide recognition for efforts to support organ, eye and tissue donation. The...
August 25, 2026 Business
The START Center for Cancer Research, a global network that gives patients access to early-phase clinical trials for new cancer treatments, is collabo...
August 25, 2026 Business
Four months after the combined Long John Silver’s and A&W in Moraine Pointe Plaza was demolished for rebuilding, the location will soon be reopened. A...
August 25, 2026 Local News
TORONTO — Canada struck back at the United States on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, d...
August 25, 2026 International News
Weekend Entertainment
Glade Run United Presbyterian Church, 1091 Pittsburgh Road in Middlesex Township, will host a murder mystery dinner to raise funds for Southern Butler County Meals on Whe...
August 26, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
Blake Lively was awarded a meager portion of the millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees that she demanded be paid by Justin Baldoni. Judge Lewis Liman on Wednesday ordere...
August 27, 2026 People
NEW YORK — Jaye P. Morgan, one of the top female recording artists of the 1950s with five hits in 1955 alone, including “That’s All I Want From You,” and who later became...
August 26, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”...
August 26, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the...
August 25, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — Jaafar Jackson is interested in doing a “Michael” sequel that focuses on the child molestation allegations made against his famous uncle from the King of Pop’s...
August 25, 2026 People
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Special Sections
Slippery Rock University senior and commuter student Samuel Kightlinger said that for his 10 a.m. class last year, he had to arrive to campus at least an hour early to fi...
August 27, 2026 Special Sections
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. GOATS Alpine Milking Doe – 2 & Under 3, Cheyenne Henry, Chicora Milking Do...
August 27, 2026 Local News
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. BEEF CATTLE Angus Spring Heifer Calf, Kenneth Cranmer, Butler Jr Heifer Ca...
August 27, 2026 Local News
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. Ayrshire Spring Heifer Calf, Nathan Rassau, Enon Valley Fall Yearling Heif...
August 26, 2026 Local News
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. FARM CROPS Grain & Seed Crops Field Corn, Lee Ambrose, Butler Indian Corn,...
August 24, 2026 Local News
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Seeking Refuge
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK. Tkachenko,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
November 23, 2022 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
July 16, 2022 Local News
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
August 22, 2023 National News
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business

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