Read the latest news from today along with all of the articles published yesterday to the website in preparation for the current print edition of the Butler Eagle.
Five fire departments were dispatched just before 11 p.m. Thursday to a fire at a camper at 114 Bonniebrook Road in Jefferson Township.
According to Butler County Emergen...
Two people were reportedly flown to hospitals with injuries they sustained Thursday just before 8:30 p.m. in a two-vehicle crash on Route 422 west at New Castle Road in B...
SAXONBURG — The sister cities of Saxonburg and Muhlhausen, Germany, are more than 4,000 miles apart. But Thursday, Sept. 10, two opposite sides of the world united inside...
JACKSON TWP — Seneca Valley School District’s main campus was arrayed with a Patriot Day display on a chilly Thursday morning, Sept. 10, as the district’s JROTC students ...
With 25 years passing since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, people around the world have all experienced a quarter century of life since.
But very few have a clearer...
MARS — The borough could be eligible for potential grant opportunities from the federal government through Butler County, as rules around applying for the funds change du...
BUTLER TWP — VA Butler Healthcare held its annual veterans suicide prevention resource fair and walk Thursday, Sept. 10, to help stop area veterans from being added to th...
ADAMS TWP — Two Mars Area School District decisions led to an exchange between board members during the Wednesday, Sept. 9, meeting.
Decided by a 7-2 board vote, the dist...
Everyone understood what the deformed 900-lb steel beam carried on the back of Assistant Chief Bruce Hezlep’s truck represented as he carried it across the George Washing...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump observed Friday’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the lives lost when a...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Canada on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, his latest international trip aimed at locking in future supp...
NEW YORK — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New Yor...
DALLAS — Vice President JD Vance took the stage Thursday on the second and final night of the Republicans' midterm convention in Dallas, the party knowing that history is...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's pitch to send Americans $5,000 checks should Republicans prevail in the November midterms is drawing scorn from some members of Congress — the...
LIMA, Peru — Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged Thursday that the U.S. would not take military action against narcotics traffickers in Latin American countries withou...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees across 30 states, who the White House allege...
WASHINGTON — Working to keep the majority in Congress, Republicans at the midterm convention in Dallas are showcasing their chief legislative accomplishment — the sweepin...
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — The phone calls, all asking the same question, started coming long before the lights at “The Pit” flickered on for the first time this fall.
“When will t...
NEW YORK — The two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths, a Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Wed...
PITTSBURGH — Following an offseason full of change, the Pittsburgh Steelers finally hit the field for a game that counts at home at Acrisure Stadium on Sunday.
Here are t...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Without playing a game last week, Slippery Rock University football has moved up to 13th in the AFCA Division II national rankings.
If history rings t...
Garrett Fleming, Logan Rumbaugh and Trevor Rumbaugh each scored a goal in Karns City’s 3-0 boys soccer victory over Central Clarion on Thursday.
Fleming, a sophomore, tal...
BUTLER TWP — Grab a set, grab some confidence.
That’s the next step for Butler’s girls volleyball team following Thursday night’s 3-0 loss to Shaler in the Golden Tornado...
Season 2 of our “Eye on Sports” high school fantasy football league kicks off with our draft. Producer Laura Crago has joined the league. Can she unseat Derek Pyda and Ja...
BUTLER TWP — Upcoming opponents watching Butler football's film might be fooled when they finally line up defensively on the field.
Ahead of Friday night's trek to Meadvi...
Some teams are starting to separate themselves in the early going.
Butler, Knoch, Karns City and Freeport all improved to 2-0 last week, and Seneca Valley sits at 1-0. B...
Here are the Top 10 passers, rushers, receivers and scorers in the Butler County area so far in 2026. Stats are provided by teams directly, via MaxPreps or accumulated vi...
Here are the latest standings involving Butler County-area teams, as well as full schedules for the week:
Independent
Team Ovr.
Butler 2-0
Friday's game: Butler ...
For the fifth time since 2022, our own Butler County Community College has been named Best Community College in Pennsylvania by Niche.com.
This ranking site considers aca...
Even though we’re in the closing weeks of summer, the great, but faint, constellation Hercules the Hero is still with us, hanging upside down high in the early evening we...
Andrew Potyka and Patricia Potyka, of Butler, will celebrate 70 years of marriage on Sept. 16 with a family dinner.
Potyka married the former Patricia Ordy on Sept. 16, 1...
Members of the Intermediate League of Butler will kick off the 2026-27 club year Monday, Sept. 21, at Christ Community Methodist Church, 205 North Duffy Road in Butler To...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week.
Lunch is served at noon....
Thirty-three empty pairs of shoes placed around the Diamond Park fountain represented the 33 lives that were lost to suicide in Butler County in 2025.
Those they represe...
In loving memory of our beloved Carl St Clair, whose birthday is September 11.
Today is your birthday
Without candles and cake,
And since you’re not with us to celebrate,...
September 11, 2013
Forever 18
In loving memory of our beloved son and brother, William “Kash” Meals.
13 years ago today, the sword of grief pierced through my heart, and ...
When remembering “Practical Magic,” Griffin Dunne’s 1998 silly-spooky witchy sister movie, the image immediately conjured has to be “midnight margaritas.” The scene of Ni...
“The Uprising” starts as a true story of medieval England in the grip of economic revolution. That's good stuff. Then it gets inexplicably hijacked by an origin story...
NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox’s battle with Parkinson’s disease has “gotten harder,” but he remains optimistic that a cure is coming.
The 65-year-old television star was 29 y...
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 mark a moment in American history that typically draws the question, “Where were you?”
The Butler Eagle asked that very question on social me...
At first, the Butler Eagle’s front page on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, seemed like it was going to look very different than how it ended up.
Among the stories that seemed de...
Even to your old age and gray hairs, I AM he, I AM he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. — Isaiah 46:4
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