Several days of baking led up to a two-hour period Saturday afternoon, Dec. 6, when an annual sweet tradition took shape.
As people lined up outside the Senator...
Butler County school officials have long taken issue with how their districts’ tax dollars were bring directed away to cyber charter schools in large quantities...
Slippery Rock girls basketball picked up its first win of the season, dominated Knoch and saw Madison Romanovich light up the court for 21 points Saturday to co...
Rugby action comes to Butler
Rugby action comes to ...
Lowrie House packed with people, and cookies, at annual historical society event
Lowrie House packed wi...
Fallen state troopers honored by motorcycle club
Fallen state troopers ...
Butler County school districts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about cyber charter fundi...
Butler County school d...
Slippery Rock, Knoch girls basketball honors late SRU coach Bobby McGraw after t...
Harmony resident Ron Lalonde extended his “Jeopardy! winning streak to a third game in a show broadcast Friday night, Dec. 5.
Lalonde — who is following in the footsteps ...
WINFIELD TWP — As hunters begin to harvest their game in the first week of rifle hunting season, meat processors are experiencing a parallel spike in business that tends ...
CRANBERRY TWP — District Judge Kevin Flaherty held all charges for a man accused of lending out a care he was supposed to be repairing to Common Pleas Court on Friday, De...
Teamwork is the name of the game for Leadership Butler County participants and sometimes that reality hits harder for some than others according to Mark Buchek, chairman ...
At its annual meeting on Thursday, Dec. 4, at UPMC Passavant-McCandless, a wide-ranging report highlighting the hospital’s achievements and expansions over the past year ...
A Cranberry Township man was arrested and charged with burglary and trespassing after police said he was found in an homeowner association clubhouse.
Anthony Edwards-Hic...
Holiday-themed houseplants such as poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) and amaryllis (Amaryllis spp.) are often given as a token of friendship or as a holiday tradition. ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports criminals are taking photos of loved ones off social media, altering them and sending them as proof-of-life photos of a kidnap...
The state Department of Transportation announced public voting will be open for this year’s Paint the Plow program, a statewide initiative that highlights safe winter dri...
For nearly 20 years now, Al Todd has helped make Christmas better for hundreds of children each year, not to mention taking a huge amount of stress of...
As a lifelong Butler County resident, I support our local law enforcement officers who serve our community with dedication and integrity. That’s exact...
As managing editor of the Butler Eagle, I would like to apologize for Friday’s editorial cartoon.
It was inappropriate and does not reflect our values...
Our current president is very busy. What with the nearly four-year Ukraine war not “settled in an hour, with a phone call.”
War crimes, inflation, une...
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market rose to the edge of its all-time high on Friday.
The S&P 500 added 0.2% and finished just 0.3% shy of its record clos...
NEW YORK — Netflix struck a deal Friday to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and HBO Max, in a $72 billion deal t...
HARRISBURG — U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds.
The company shut down t...
Imagine sitting down after a few glasses of eggnog and flipping through every saccharine holiday movie on cable, but then, suddenly, the remote is stuck, the plots are me...
Not so many years ago, a typical advent calendar was a basic cardboard box containing some chocolates or other candies behind little daily windows.
Today, advent calenda...
How do you top “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” the video game movie adaptation about murderous anthropomorphic robots? If it’s a battle for insipid nonsense, the answer is bli...
After two installments of his “Knives Out” franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a gloomy and clunky outin...
Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the clouds stay away from Butler, it should be a good...
Miley Cyrus and boyfriend Maxx Morando are engaged after four years together.
The musicians, who have been linked since late 2021, sparked rumors of forthcoming nuptials ...
The following is a list of church services to be held in Butler County and the surrounding area on or around the Christmas holiday.
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
Catholi...
1. 1971
2. Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar
3. Tiny Tim in “A Christmas Carol”
4. John Boy and Grandpa Walton
5. Jimmy Buffett
6. A Hula-Hoop
7. Paul Giamatti
8. New York C...
With the holidays just around the corner, Santa Claus and his army of helpers have come to town.
One such helper is Al Mazuch, who has acted as Santa’s eyes and ears at M...
A holiday season in Butler County is always ripe with opportunities to explore, gather and give back. Below are just a few events that can put you in the spirit this mont...
Bernice Hook, of Jefferson Township, was born the same year her first Christmas gift was created and both would celebrate their 89th holiday in December, 2010.
“I was bor...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
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 ...
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...
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
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...
