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Police: Seven Fields couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
A husband and wife died in an apparent murder-suicide early Tuesday morning, April 28, in the area of Graywyck Drive in Seven Fields, according to state police ...
Mars grad, St. Louis Cardinals shortstop JJ Wetherholt soaking in homecoming
PITTSBURGH — JJ Wetherholt’s whirlwind of a first month in the major leagues made a stop in a very familiar place. A 2021 Mars Area High School graduate and roo...
Long John Silver’s, A&W restaurant in Butler Township closed, torn down
BUTLER TWP — The crowded commercial district along Route 356 in Butler Township has temporarily lost a pair of fast-food dining options. Over the past week, a d...
Saxonburg Area Authority working to upgrade last of old clay pipes
Earlier this year, the Saxonburg Area Authority received a grant of $489,558 through the Pennsylvania Small Water and Sewer Program. The funds will be used to u...
Police: Seven Fields couple dead in apparent murder-suicide
Police: Seven Fields c...
Mars grad, St. Louis Cardinals shortstop JJ Wetherholt soaking in homecoming
Mars grad, St. Louis C...
SRU professor, Anning, searches for Duchenne muscular dystrophy care
SRU professor, Anning,...
Long John Silver’s, A&W restaurant in Butler Township closed, torn down
Long John Silver’s, A&...
Saxonburg Area Authority working to upgrade last of old clay pipes
Saxonburg Area Authori...
Top Headlines
CHERRY TWP — Moniteau School District’s board anticipates approving a preliminary general budget for the 2026-27 school year at its next meeting on May 11. Austin Blause...
April 28, 2026 Local News
Brian M. Bailey, the sitting mayor of Portersville, died of natural causes on Sunday morning, April 19, at the age of 67. Prior to his death, Bailey had served as mayor f...
April 28, 2026 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK ― Slippery Rock Area School District’s board unanimously approved installation of a platform and railings leading to the only roof access at Slippery Rock A...
April 28, 2026 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — Sam Keefer, a junior at Seneca Valley High School and a lifelong resident of Zelienople, took his oath of office as junior council member at Monday’s borough...
April 28, 2026 Local News
A Pittsburgh man is accused of attempting to bring around $500 of suspected heroin into Butler County Prison. Joseph Jamar Bell, 33, was charged Monday, April 20, by Butl...
April 27, 2026 Local News
News
Sarver resident Drew Rummel’s “Wheel of Fortune” winning streak came to an end Monday night, April 27. Rummel first appeared on the show’s Thursday episode netting a winn...
April 27, 2026 Local News
Six people are accused of engaging in a large fight at Greenview Gardens Apartments in Butler. Giovanni Antonio Micco, 24, DeAngelo Micco, 19, Evan Micco, 20, Oressa Mae...
April 27, 2026 Local News
PennDOT announced Monday, April 27, a new change to traffic patterns for the bridge preservation project on Route 422 in Butler and Summit townships is now in effect. The...
April 27, 2026 Local News
Families with children in tow came out on Friday, April 24, to 199 Airport Road for a Touch-A-Truck event. The event featured emergency vehicles from a number of agencies...
April 27, 2026 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — Whether the pancakes were plain, chocolate chip or blueberry, the sweetest thing attendees savored at the Zelienople Rotary Club’s pancake breakfast was know...
April 27, 2026 Local News
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Community
More than 20 SRU students work odd jobs at draft in Pittsburgh
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
A Knoch graduate now serves in the Navy aboard one of the world’s largest warships. Camro...
April 27, 2026
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Ch...
April 25, 2026
Chicora United Methodist Church will have a craft and bake sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Satu...
April 24, 2026
Congregation B'nai Abraham Synagogue will have its annual rummage sale this weekend. The s...
April 24, 2026
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Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK — The NFL Draft came and went. Joe Cooper hopes his NFL career is just begin...
 
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, April 27 B...
April 27, 2026
Mars’ Monica Grunden placed first in the 1,600-meter run at Friday’s Seneca Valley Invitat...
April 26, 2026
BUTLER TWP — As one of seven members of the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame’s 2026 induc...
April 26, 2026
If you’re looking to try a new course or haven’t been for a while and want to know the bes...
April 26, 2026
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Editorial
I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in...
April 28, 2026 Other Voices
April 27, 2026 Cartoons
One of the appeals of broadcast game shows is playing along with the people on the screen and imagining what you would do and how you would fare in ga...
April 27, 2026 Our Opinion
Noncompete agreements, once reserved for executives with unique access to trade secrets, have gone mainstream in America. According to the Government...
April 27, 2026 Other Voices
What are we in for next? Another war without provocation? Another way to kill the best our society has to offer — the young, the strong with a great f...
April 25, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
Farmers across the Great Plains are confronting an intense drought that threatens winter wheat harvests and is pushing cattle producers toward costly ...
April 27, 2026 Agriculture
OAKLAND, Calif. — Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial revolving around the alleged betrayal, dec...
April 27, 2026 Business
Allegheny Health Network has received national recognition as its Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, Allegheny County, has been named to Newsweek’s prest...
April 27, 2026 Business
Airlines around the world are raising prices for bags and seats, dialing back profit forecasts and openly discussing ways to link up with rivals as th...
April 26, 2026 Business
Bayer AG is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court to pare down lawsuits over its top-selling Roundup weedkiller and help corral the decade-long litigatio...
April 26, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Birders will guide a search of Moraine State Park for early season migrants from sparrows, warblers, tanagers, thrushes, kinglets, gulls, terns, loons, grebes, cormorants...
April 23, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop band the Ronettes, who sang the enduring hits “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walk...
April 27, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Nearly a quarter-century after rap star Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was shot to death, a man admitted in court Monday to a role in a killing that stymied investi...
April 27, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — “Michael,” the big-budget Michael Jackson spectacle, shrugged off bad reviews and a troubled production to launch with $97 million in U.S. and Canada theaters,...
April 27, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Perhaps the saddest thing about “I Swear,” the moving if also occasionally cloying film about Tourette’s activist John Davidson, is that a movie aimed at forging understa...
April 25, 2026 Reviews
“Michael” slides a sequin glove over the pop star’s tarnished legacy, shrouding Michael Jackson’s complications with a conventional biopic that, if you cover your ear...
April 25, 2026 Reviews
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Special Sections
While spring marks the return of warmer weather in Western Pennsylvania, it also brings back the unmistakable sights and sounds of roadwork — including fresh surface tre...
April 21, 2026 Special Sections
While the weather is becoming milder as Butler County enters spring, winter can leave a lasting impact on vehicles. Nate Miller, owner of Randy and Bob’s Auto Body, said ...
April 20, 2026 Special Sections
Butler County has an unusually high number of golf courses. That’s a good thing, said Experience Butler County president Amy Pack. There is something for all kinds of gol...
April 19, 2026 Sports
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
April 14, 2026 Special Sections
Vendors and exhibitors scheduled to appear at this year’s Butler County Home Show include: Agway Water Treatment of Western PA Alex Restoration & Masonry Repairs ARK Base...
April 08, 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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