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2 women who died following Butler Township crash identified
Mother of boy dies in Sunday collision Two women, including a mother of a boy, died following a head-on crash Sunday, July 26, along Route 8 in Butler Township...
2 killed after Beacon Road crash identified
Two people were killed when the car they were in collided with a tree along Beacon Road in Penn Township on Saturday evening, July 25, township police have conf...
Corey’s Cruise returns to celebrate the life of a local hero
PROSPECT — Corey’s Cruise returned for its second year, bigger than last year’s inaugural event. This year, it welcomed 48 vendors, at least 400 bikes were anti...
Corey’s Cruise holds Corey Comperatore at its center
When Helen Comperatore and her board were planning this year’s Corey’s Cruise, they had one question in mind: “what would Corey do?” Every detail, down to the c...
Photos: Corey’s Cruise recognizes life of Comperatore
View the photos from Corey’s Cruise, held on Saturday, July 25 at the fairgrounds. The second annual festival honors Corey Comperatore, two years after the Buf...
2 women who died following Butler Township crash identified
2 women who died follo...
2 killed after Beacon Road crash identified
2 killed after Beacon ...
Corey’s Cruise returns to celebrate the life of a local hero
Corey’s Cruise returns...
Corey’s Cruise holds Corey Comperatore at its center
Corey’s Cruise holds C...
Photos: Corey’s Cruise recognizes life of Comperatore
Photos: Corey’s Cruise...
Top Headlines
After eight months of construction and more than a year of planning, Butler-based Armco Credit Union officially reopened its Butler branch and headquarters on Monday, Jul...
July 27, 2026 Business
BRADY TWP — Some hikers have been visiting Jennings Environmental Education Center for 30 years and have still never seen a resident massasauga rattlesnake in person. But...
July 25, 2026 Local News
Almost as long as there’s been a Butler County, there’s been a summer festival on the campus of Concordia Lutheran Ministries in Jefferson Township. The tradition continu...
July 27, 2026 Local News
After a year gap, Middlesex Community Day returned to the township Saturday, July 25, bringing more than 30 local food trucks, vendors and artisans to the community park....
July 26, 2026 Local News
Butler City Council is moving forward with more upgrades to the city building with the purchase of some new furniture. Council voted unanimously at a meeting Thursday eve...
July 27, 2026 Local News
News
Emergency personnel responded to a fatal crash on Pittsburgh Road in Butler Township Sunday evening. At about 6:50 p.m., Butler County Emergency Services dispatch called...
July 26, 2026 Local News
Penn Township police and volunteer fire department and Middlesex Township police and volunteer fire department responded to a vehicle crashed into a tree after 7 p.m. Sat...
July 25, 2026 Local News
Man accused of hitting cyclist in 2023
July 25, 2026 Crime & Courts
After months of delay, the City of Butler is moving forward with its plan to modernize parking using digital kiosks and a connected smartphone app. City council voted una...
July 25, 2026 Local News
Students, parents and faculty of Butler Catholic School will soon have a safer time getting in and out of the nearby area after the city purchased two flashing school zon...
July 25, 2026 Local News
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Community
BUTLER TWP — Whenever Summer Dramatics Project executive producer Tanya Collins runs into ...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
PITTSBURGH — After surviving the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and presidin...
July 24, 2026
The second session of the Cranberry Conversation is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, in th...
July 24, 2026
For the 11th year, rain or shine, “Touch A Truck … and All Things That Go,” will be in gea...
July 24, 2026
Circle of Swords keeps the games going
July 24, 2026
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Sports
There’s a question that makes high school football coaches sweat, one most players would r...
 
PITTSBURGH — Ryan O’Hearn hit a grand slam on his 33rd birthday, and the Pittsburgh Pirate...
July 26, 2026
Levi Yetter won Friday’s Late Models main event at Lernerville Speedway. He held off secon...
July 26, 2026
PITTSBURGH — Pete Crow-Armstrong was 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBIs to lead the Ch...
July 26, 2026
Dan Brown made a cast close to the bank, something he’s quite adept at. Soon after the lur...
July 26, 2026
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Editorial
July 27, 2026 Cartoons
Butler County is taking a new approach toward the issue of student truancy through the creation of a truancy court program, established by the county’...
July 27, 2026 Our Opinion
Will the nation’s biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it’s no sure thing. The H...
July 27, 2026 Other Voices
Our community deserves a representative who actually shows up, listens and answers to the voters. For too long, we have been left without real access ...
July 25, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Congrats to everyone involved in making “Butler Magic,” the silent film celebrating the spirit of Butler shown during the Steeples & Stacks Heritage W...
July 25, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
Pennsylvania American Water has begun conducting door-to-door canvassing of its customers in Butler County to determine what material their water serv...
July 26, 2026 Business
MEXICO CITY — The United States announced Friday it will begin reopening the border to Mexican cattle imports on Aug. 24, more than a year after it i...
July 26, 2026 Business
The Trump administration wants soldiers to consider becoming truck drivers when they leave the military to help replace the tens of thousands of immig...
July 26, 2026 Business
Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General held a public hearing on Friday morning, July 24, at Swiftee’s Lakeview in Greensburg, Westmoreland Coun...
July 24, 2026 Business
A nearly 100-year-old Butler County fuel distributor has officially entered the ice cream space. Purvis Brothers of Mars opened ice cream shop Cosmic ...
July 24, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Butler County Symphony Orchestra will take audiences to the movies with an August concert. The concert is dedicated to the music of films from every era, including classi...
July 23, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
“The Odyssey” continued to exert a mighty hold on moviegoers in its second weekend in North American theaters, with $87 million in ticket sales, according to studio estim...
July 26, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to delay closing their $81 billion merger well into next year, a stunning move that arrives as a judge continu...
July 24, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
It’s right there in the trailer for “Motor City”: “revenge is louder than words,” splashed over a montage of fists clobbering, cars crashing, and disco dancing. The tagli...
July 24, 2026 Reviews
It’s the tennis establishment versus pickleball enthusiasts at an uptight club in “The Dink,” a kind of spiritual descendant of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” The st...
July 24, 2026 Reviews
Welcome to part three of my trilogy on stars’ birth, life and death. In last week’s Starwatch column about the life of stars, I told you how stars cook up energy in their...
July 23, 2026 Community
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Special Sections
NEW YORK — Do your hands hurt when you use your phone? All that texting and scrolling might be stressing out your fingers. The term texting thumb can describe a wide ran...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
Most people may never have heard of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome, or CKM, which makes sense, considering the condition was only identified and named in 2023. ...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
As yet another heat dome settles over part of the U.S., a depressingly predictable news cycle is unfolding. This week, the headlines will warn of dangerously high tempera...
July 22, 2026 Special Sections
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
July 07, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Below are the even...
July 04, 2026 Special Sections
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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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