“It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas... everywhere you go.” Remember when this familiar melody signaled the beginning of the Christmas season? Many years have co...
Some stories are timeless ... like the letter an 8-year-old girl wrote 116 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagle repr...
WASHINGTON — Thirty years or so ago, Bill Steif, a friend, colleague and foreign affairs expert, opined that if the Eisenhower and then Kennedy Administrations had been ...
The Supreme Court made the right call two years ago when it found unconstitutional state laws mandating a life sentence without parole for minors convicted of grievous c...
Congressman Mike Kelly made several key points about energy policy when he delivered the Republican Party’s weekly national address on the Saturday before Christmas.
But...
Just a year ago, at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa, President Barack Obama set tongues wagging by greeting Cuba’s President Raul Castro with a han...
NEW YORK — Now that U.S. intelligence officials believe North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the discussion has moved away finally from...
Candidate Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American dictators without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic po...
It is unfortunate that Butler Downtown must carry on as an all-volunteer group. The organization last week laid off its only paid employee, Main Street Manager Chelynne ...
Cheers to alert residents of the 300 block of Virginia Avenue in Butler. They spotted suspicious activity at a vacant house next door and called police.
Officers arreste...
