Butler Eagle's Top Facebook Stories of 2017
The following stories posted on the Butler Eagle’s Facebook page had the highest views in 2017:
A multivehicle crash occurred March 27 at the intersection of Route 422 and Bonniebrook Road when a tractor-trailer lost its brakes and hit a pickup truck. Three people were injured. Posted March 27; 146,603 views
State police planned to charge Kasey Dischman, 30, of East Butler, who overdosed while more than seven months pregnant, with felony aggravated assault of an unborn child following her alleged June 22 overdose. Posted June 27; 129,489 views
Police March 21 find Keith Jordan Lambing and his mother, Kristen Herold, hiding in a vacant house in Butler. Lambing was wanted in relation to the homicide of 4-year-old Bentley Thomas Miller. Posted March 22; 124,595 views
Officials in April reveal they foiled Lambing’s escape plan from Butler County Prison, where he had been held since March 22. Posted April 11; 120,605 views
Downtown business Miller’s Quality Meats holds a fundraiser to benefit the family and 6-year-old daughter of Melissa Barto, who was killed June 8 and whose body was found burned and abandoned in a field in Lawrence County. Posted June 15; 117,581 views
State police in June investigated an ISIS flag seen hanging from an overpass on Interstate 79. Posted June 30; 116,262 views
Nicholas J. Lucia was arrested for seriously injuring a Slippery University student July 17 after “rap battling” at an off-campus apartment. Posted July 18; 102,593 views
Megan Achezinski, a second-grade teacher at South Butler Primary School, found an after-school party May 25 was just a cover for a marriage proposal from Jeff Busi. She said yes. Posted May 28; 100,972 views
Garfield’s Restaurant & Pub in the Clearview Mall shut its doors unexpectedly March 30. Posted March 31; 98,963 views
Joshua W. Bowser was charged June 13 in connection with the Barto murder. Police said he lent the murder suspect a car so Barto’s body could be moved. Posted June 13; 96,340 views.
Among other top posts in 2017 were:
More than 1,000 motorcyclists escorted a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from Cranberry Township to the VA facility in Butler Township. Posted Aug. 23
Indspec Chemical Corp. ceased production of Resorcinol and announced it would close the plant July 31. Posted March 27
After 10 years of body building, Theresa Ivancik of Butler Township brought home the prize in her first professional show. Posted Aug. 12
Cranberry Township police make arrests at a foot massage business accused of being a front for prostitution. Posted Aug. 10
Helen Knauer marked her 100th birthday with a police escort to work — at the Butler County Clerk of Courts office. Posted July 17
More than 1,000 Jeeps invaded downtown as part of the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival. Posted June 10
Severe thunderstorms and flash flooding sent a reported landslide down Mercer Road near Butler Memorial Park July 5, inundating homes, businesses and roads with water and mud, and causing an undetermined amount of damage to the park and private property in Butler’s West End. Butler officials declared a state of emergency and set a curfew. Posted July 6
A South Butler volunteer firefighter was rescued from the third floor of a burning building on Center Avenue. Nineteen people were homeless. The firefighter, Kevin Smith, was all right. Posted March 26.
