The case in which a former foster mother is charged with stealing nearly $40,000 from Butler County Children and Youth Services is a black eye for the agency. Safeguards...
Instead of dashing off to Copenhagen last week to headline Chicago's ultimately unsuccessful bid to host the 2016 Olympics, President Barack Obama should have gone to Sw...
The granite bricks in Diamond Park recognizing honorably discharged veterans, approximately 60 of which were badly damaged or destroyed, deserved better attention than w...
A calmer atmosphere apparently will return to the South Butler School District this week. That will prompt a sigh of relief from many students and parents who are tired ...
Butler's image wasn't enhanced by the people who traveled to the Knoch-Seneca Valley football game Sept. 25 at Knoch, apparently with the primary objective of starting a...
Harrisburg was a busy place in July and August, the two months following the missed June 30 deadline to pass a state budget. At least it appeared to be busy, based on th...
The annual fundraising campaign of United Way of Butler County remains one of the barometers for judging the health of the local economy.
And, with the state and nation ...
Evidence continues to build that corporate interests, particuarly those of health insurers and drug makers, are defining the look of health care reform. Last week, the S...
The envelope of a letter to the editor that arrived at the Butler Eagle on Monday had a stamp depicting a black-and-white television showing Lassie, the star of the long...
The G-20 economic summit held last week in Pittsburgh was a mixed bag, with positive publicity on the one hand and tens of millions of dollars in security expenses and i...