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.
Despite what now looks to be a blue wave in both halves of Congress, Mike Kelly, R-16th, appears to have won a ninth consecutive term in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Scott Timko, the Republican challenger, is the apparent winner in the race for Pennsylvania’s 12th state House District, Tuesday, Nov. 3, flipping the seat back to red af...
Incumbent Republican candidate Aaron Bernstine will return to Harrisburg to represent Pennsylvania’s 8th state House District for the next two years.
Bernstine won the di...
Rep. Marci Mustello, R-11th, will serve another term in the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives following a midterm general election race in which she ran against...
Tim Bonner, R-17th, will serve another term in the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives following a general election race in which he ran unopposed.
Bonner, who w...
A man is facing charges after the floor of the hotel where he was staying was evacuated early Tuesday morning because of a strong odor from a gas can he had in his room.
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Regular voting in the Tuesday, Nov. 3, midterm election has resumed in Adams Township Precinct 3 after a ballot scanner had a jam, a situation the Butler County Bureau of...
One man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the intersection of Brownsdale and Powell roads in Penn Township.
Emergency responders were called to the sc...
WASHINGTON — The United States will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East, President Dona...
HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro easily beat back a challenge by Republican Stacy Garrity on Tuesday, setting the stage for a second term as Pennsylvania’s top ...
Republican Stacy Garrity, the state’s treasurer, spoke to supporters gathered for a results watch party at a golf course in Wyoming County at 8:50 p.m. — nearly an hour a...
PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. — Skies began to clear Tuesday, but while floodwaters from almost two weeks of on-and-off heavy rain still inundated parts of the U.S. Southwest, ot...
An escaped Tennessee prisoner convicted of murder was recaptured Tuesday near Kansas City, Mo., when his truck got stuck in the mud after troopers used roadside cameras a...
NEW YORK — A young Pennsylvania woman running the New York City Marathon for the first time to raise money for charity collapsed in Central Park, just over two miles from...
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers ramped up their job postings in September as stronger economic growth may be encouraging more hiring. Yet voters are headed to the polls Tuesd...
BERLIN — Several flights across Europe received alleged bomb threats on Tuesday that ultimately turned out to be hoaxes but prompted searches, diversions and, in one case...
What appeared to be a limited strike by the United States on Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz hours before Tuesday's midterm U.S. elections is raising questions ab...
KYIV, Ukraine — Rescuers in southern Ukraine continued an intense search Tuesday for survivors at a bombed-out aid facility and shelter where at least 31 people were kill...
PITTSBURGH — Tomas Hertl’s second goal of the night with 32 seconds left in regulation lifted the Vegas Golden Knights past the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Tuesday night.
Veg...
Landon Bell scored the opening goal and Dominic Pireaux landed the knockout as No. 10 Belle Vernon stunned North Catholic 2-0 in the WPIAL Class 2A semifinals Tuesday nig...
FOX CHAPEL — Junior forward Miley Gratton “comes up big in the biggest moments,” Mars girls soccer head coach Blair Gerlach said.
“That’s just what she does,” the coach a...
COLLIER TWP — Trailing on the scoreboard is something Seneca Valley boys soccer is not used to.
Entering Tuesday’s WPIAL Class 4A semifinal playoff game against Fox Chape...
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...
District 9 released its soccer all-star teams Friday, Oct. 30.
Here are the Butler County athletes who made the Upper Allegheny Valley Soccer all-star teams:
Boys: Upper ...
District 9 released its football all-star teams Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Karns City (9-1), hoping to repeat as Class 2A district champs this week, claimed several spots. And ...
Butler County Community College women’s volleyball wrapped up its 22nd straight winning season with head coach Rob Snyder, although with a loss Saturday in the NJCAA Regi...
American politics has become a test of allegiance. Candidates are expected to defend their party’s nominee, voters are urged to treat every election as an existential bat...
About 80% of students in Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools return for their second year. The remaining 20% are now the much-needed focus of a grant-fu...
It’s been just over a year since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act became law. Its passing changed federal eligibility guidelines for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance P...
YWCA Butler will have its Purses for a Purpose from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Nov. 22, at Butler Country Club.
The event presents an afternoon of purses, prizes, lunch and holiday ...
The Butler YMCA’s Thanksgiving celebration will be Thursday, Nov. 12, and is free and open exclusively to Butler YMCA members and YMCA childcare families.
The event will ...
The Butler County Manufacturing Consortium brought its annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Expo to the Clearview Mall Nov. 5, 2010, which featured about 12 v...
NEW YORK — Tony Butala, co-founder of the Grammy-nominated trio The Lettermen, whose lush vocal harmonies made them one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1960s, die...
