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.
Slippery Rock University is looking for tens of millions of dollars to invest in “students, academic excellence, athletics and SRU’s future.”
The university announced a $...
A former student at Summit Academy claims in a lawsuit that he was sexually abused by one of his football coaches there about 15 years ago.
Windel Holmes, 28, who is inca...
Before he was pulled over by a Zelienople police officer for his second DUI, alcohol had become “part of who I was,” Michael Bauer said.
“I reached a point where I needed...
CRANBERRY TWP — Over the last four years, more than a thousand trees have been planted within the township through planting blitzes, according to Mike Manipole, township...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is opening a celebration of the popemobile, the now-iconic vehicle that for nearly a century has let popes get close to the faithful at home an...
It’s perhaps the most consequential map in American history. And it could be yours.
The hand-drawn chart of the Mason-Dixon Line that eventually divided the free from the...
Groups that provide legal services to immigrants filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the Trump administration’s new policy of hiding the locations of tens of thousa...
King tides have inundated parts of both U.S. coasts, flooding streets and sending seawater into homes and businesses in beach communities in California, Florida and the C...
URDA, Spain — A high-speed train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks in Spain Wednesday, killing at least 68 people and injuring dozens in the second dead...
DNA connects serial killer Ted Bundy to the death of another Utah teenager, authorities announced Tuesday, exactly 52 years after her body was discovered in the woods by ...
Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase “Sí, se puede!...
KHERSON, Ukraine — A planned six-day ceasefire in and around a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine held for its first day and night, officials said Wednesday, but M...
O’HARA TWP, Allegheny County — Dani DeFanti crouched down and put her face in her hands at the final whistle of Seneca Valley’s 3-1 WPIAL Class 4A girls soccer quarterfin...
BUFFALO TWP — For 62 minutes, Freeport shot the ball toward the net, around the net and over the net.
Just not into the net.
Junior midfielder Ella McConville changed all...
Slippery Rock girls soccer beat No. 5 Wilmington 3-2 in overtime at Meadville High School to advance to the District 10 Class 2A semifinals.
No stats were provided from t...
The postseason has arrived.
The 2026 WPIAL Girls Soccer Championships kick off Saturday, Oct. 24, with the finals set to be held in two weeks. Districts 9 and 10 will be ...
This is what it’s all led up to.
The 2026 WPIAL Boys Soccer Championships kick off Thursday, Oct. 22, and Districts 9 and 10 will open their playoffs in short order.
The ...
Some of the PIAA’s best girls volleyball teams reside in Butler County.
Now it’s time for them and the rest to prove themselves in the playoffs. The 2026 WPIAL girls voll...
Brea Kelley doesn’t consider herself to be a spontaneous person.
However, for once, the North Catholic senior girls golfer chose not to second-guess herself.
“It was a ve...
One might say Jack Steineman knows his limitations — or more accurately who runs in his way.
The North Catholic junior last week won the TSTCA Class 2A Cross Country Cham...
Boys
Freeport
Soccer: Judah Thompson, senior
Highlight: Has been credited with a school-record 12 shutouts in net this season.
North Catholic
Soccer...
The times they are a-changing, as Bob Dylan once sang, but that doesn’t mean everybody has to like it.
For instance, Butler County residents recently learned the county h...
As voters approach the midterm elections, each party is eager to make the choice seem simple.
Democrats point to the cost of living and argue that Republicans have faile...
There will be a fun run and walk Thanksgiving morning at Riverside High School, 300 Country Club Drive, Ellwood City.
The Gobbler’s Gallop features a 10K and a 5K run, an...
If you are anything like me, you are shocked that October has flown by and Halloween is this weekend.
You are probably also without a costume. And how can you ever go to ...
The Cranberry Women's Club is hosting its annual Farkleberry Craft show on Saturday, Nov. 7.
The event runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Cranberry Township Municipal C...
All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever. — 1 Peter 1...
LOS ANGELES — Strapped into a harness, Josh Law was lowered from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter into the rough Pacific Ocean in the pitch black night, far off the Mexican ...
A longtime Western Pennsylvania firefighter who died in 2022 at the age of 49 left behind memories for his colleagues and a lasting legacy as a fire instructor.
Jimmy...
