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.
NEW YORK — Twelve states sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, arguing that the $81 billion merger would “extinguish competition” in Hol...
Children, older adults and those with respiratory conditions should avoid heavy outdoor activity Tuesday, July 14, due to ozone buildups harming the air quality, accordin...
A Lyndora woman is accused of brandishing a knife during a fight in Butler.
Kathryn Lucille Lane, 35, was charged Wednesday, July 8, with felony aggravated assault and m...
An Indiana woman accused of throwing a knife at another woman pleaded guilty to summary disorderly conduct at a Monday, July 13, preliminary hearing.
Mya Jean Hubbard, 2...
JEFFERSON TWP — The township is expected to receive additional financial backing for the ongoing renovation of SEBCO Pool, in the form of a $125,000 contribution from Con...
BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District is taking a proactive approach to cellphone usage in the district’s schools.
The district’s board voted unanimously Monday evenin...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Dairy Champions
Supreme Champion Cow, Camp-Run Farms, Fombell
Reserve Supreme Champi...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is urging the state House of Representatives to pass sentencing and parole rules for people convicted of second-degree murder be...
Leading Slippery Rock Area High School this year will be a team effort.
Slippery Rock Area School Distric has named Jesse Pattison and Shawn Zappia as the high school’s c...
ADAMS TWP — The township’s board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a 180-day moratorium on six types of businesses during its Monday, July 13, meeting.
The busi...
BIDDEFORD, Maine — Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s already been a deadly year for firefighters, and authorities have been putting resources where they can more quickly pounce on wildfires before t...
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told lawmakers Tuesday that a sharp increase in threats targeting her and other justices is increasingly encroaching ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's air force said Tuesday it intercepted five ballistic missiles launched by Russia in a raft of overnight attacks, although other missiles and dro...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump backtracked on plans to charge ships for using the Strait of Hormuz, saying Tuesday that Gulf countries would in...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is welcoming Iraq's new prime minister to the White House on Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for offi...
Former Butler County resident Mark Pelusi has spent years trying to obtain official documents to solve a century-old family mystery, but bureaucratic red tape is preventi...
CAIRO — The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they launched missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport on Monday in response to airstrikes the...
Another week of blistering heat will bring even more health risks in the coming days, as overnight temperatures won't provide much relief.
The National Weather Service i...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death...
Hunter Swidzinski already had a long list of golf accomplishments before the summer began.
After his PIAA championship in 2023, the Butler graduate earned several awards,...
Even on vacation at a Florida beach, Gavin Gorajewski finds a volleyball.
So it’s no surprise the rising Seneca Valley junior, a boys volleyball outside hitter and All-WP...
St. Louis Cardinals second baseman JJ Wetherholt has $20 million in escalators based on MVP voting and All-Star selection as part of his $112.5 million, eight-year contra...
While flag football has gained a strong foothold in Western Pa., it is not yet up to par with other areas of the country.
Josh and Kaitlyn Federkeil, of Meridian, are aim...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, July 13
Summer Baseball
7 — Butler Iron Bucks at Beaver County Cardinals
Wednesday, J...
Steeples & Stacks is a landmark event for the Butler Cultural District, an initiative that started in 2022 to focus arts and culture in one area of the city.
The event t...
The Social Security Trust Fund will run out of money by late 2032, according to the annual report the program issued last month. The specific date is new — last year’s re...
Springdale Lutheran Church is celebrating its 150th anniversary from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 25, at 1061 Mahood Road, West Sunbury.
The anniversary celebration feat...
Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Roundtable will host its next presentation at 6 p.m. Monday, July 20.
Matt Borders will present “Major General Lew Wallace,” at the July 20 m...
Gary McKinney, of Tarentum, lost his high school ring in the mid-1970s while he was hunting near the Heath Pump Station along the Clarion River. On June 19, 2009, Richard...
The shared legacy of a Saxonburg church, built on land given by the man whose cables still hold up a great city, will be a highlight of the borough’s Thursday, July 16, M...
The end of the inaugural Steeples & Stacks Heritage Weekend was only the beginning of an art installation which should last for years to come.
Over the two days of Steepl...
When Butler writer Niki Lott published her children’s book, “The Princess and the Tea,” in November, she shared a project that began nearly 20 years earlier as personaliz...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sam Neill, the smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose prolific career moved from art films to blockbusters as he dodged velociraptors in “Ju...
God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and und...
