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.
Butler County Commissioner Kevin Boozel announced Thursday, Feb.19, he is running for a second four-year term on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee.
The committe...
JACKSON TWP — During a meeting Thursday, Feb. 19, supervisors approved the formation of an oversight committee for Harmony EMS through the Southwestern Butler Council of ...
A video, recently shared with the Butler Eagle, claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a person around 8 a.m. Jan. 21 at a Cranberry Township underpass near ...
A man is being charged with sexual assault after police say he assaulted a woman for over three decades.
Louis Tomei, 84, of Zelienople, was charged Thursday, Feb. 19, wi...
JEFFERSON TWP — The message at HIS Kids Christian School’s first responders lunch was while firefighters, paramedics and police face constant danger, they are still anoth...
Cranberry Township-based grocer Giant Eagle has launched its spring Full Plates, Zero Waste register donation campaign, which continues through May 20 at all 200 Giant Ea...
NEW YORK — Walmart delivered another impressive quarter as the promise of lower prices and speedy deliveries attracted a broader spectrum of Americans from cash-strapped ...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Adams Twp.
Feb. 3 — Tigh Andrew Bennett, 41, of Callery, was charged with misdemea...
The grandson of the inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups has lashed out at The Hershey Co., accusing the candy company of hurting the Reese's brand by shifting to cheap...
A house fire just off Route 356 caused a large enough response from emergency crews it blocked off the only entrance in and out of a housing development and slowed traffi...
WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remain at historically low levels.
The number of Americans filing for jobless aid for t...
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday declared four men who were wrongfully accused of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders innocent, formally clearing their names in ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit slipped modestly in 2025, a year in which President Donald Trump upended global commerce by slapping double digit tariffs on imports f...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief pac...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sitting in the stands at a hockey game, Michael Black heard what he thought was popping balloons before quickly realizing it was gunfire. As dozens of ...
LONDON — The former Prince Andrew was arrested and held for hours by British police Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to Jeffrey E...
PHILADELPHIA — Workers on Thursday began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved at the former President’s House in Philadelphia amid a content...
LONDON — U.K. police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
The police force did not name Mountbatten-Windsor, as i...
SODA SPRINGS, Calif. — Six women killed in the deadliest avalanche in the U.S. in decades were part of a close-knit group of friends who were experienced backcountry skie...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Jence Rhoads has spent much of her life following in her mother’s footsteps.
The 2007 Slippery Rock High School graduate put together a stellar basketball...
The Butler County Community College men’s basketball team will battle for conference and regional titles this weekend during a dual-championship tournament in BC3’s Field...
The WPIAL, District 9 and District 10 playoffs continue this week, with five Butler County teams still alive.
The most recent addition is Slippery Rock, the D10, Region 4...
Beaver was no match for North Catholic in Thursday’s WPIAL Class 4A girls basketball quarterfinal playoff at Pine-Richland High School.
The No. 3 Trojanettes crushed the ...
JACKSON TWP — 1.8 seconds left. Down by one. Andrew Omasits at the free throw line.
No problem.
The Seneca Valley senior guard caught nothing but net on both free throws,...
We are inching closer to a Knoch-North Catholic rubber match.
The Knights cruised through last week’s WPIAL Class 4A playoff opener, and both teams are the presumptive fa...
MILAN — Megan Keller backhanded in a shot 4:07 into overtime and the United States won its third Olympic gold medal in women's hockey, beating Canada 2-1 at the Milan Cor...
Special Olympics and unified bocce athletes around Butler County recently celebrated various achievements at the end of their seasons.
At Knoch, ninth-grader Mason Kriber...
Seneca Valley girls basketball head coach Dorothea Epps was named the Class 6A Section 1 Co-Coach of the Year this week when the Big 56 all-section teams were released.
E...
In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a “Rainbow Coalition,” start to threaten th...
It’s a truism those experiencing the Industrial Revolution would have recognized immediately: The world is increasingly wider than our own backyard.
The march of progress...
Play bingo for a chance to win plant prizes — like starters and gardening goodies — on April 19.
Glade Run Lutheran Services is hosting “Plant Bingo” to celebrate Earth D...
In loving memory of our son, brother and uncle Jeff Germanoski.
February 20, 1992
I come into an empty house,
But feel I’m not alone.
I know that you are with me,
Your pr...
Birthday wishes for our son
Patrick D. Pennington
In the stillness of each day, we think of you often. We miss your laughter, your warmth and the joy you brought into our...
In loving memory of our beloved Carole A. Oresick who passed away one year ago today, February 20th.
Deep in the earth lies a picture
Of a loved one laid to rest.
In memo...
LOS ANGELES — The Oscars are reuniting last year's acting winners for next month's ceremony.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that best...
The day after our country’s sesquicentennial, Evans City will host the “A Voice For Liberty” 250th anniversary musical event on Sunday, July 5, at the Evans City Cemetery...
The Slippery Rock University Honors Flute Ensemble will have its final performance this weekend.
The ensemble, which is made up of honors students in the flute program at...
Steve Cicero — a former history teacher in Butler Area School District, who is now known as the History Hobo — will lead “Highway to History,” a presentation on Perry Hig...
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complet...
