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With Butler County facing extreme heat through Friday, July 3, some organizations have opened their doors to help people get out of the sun.
Butler County Area Agency on ...
A 3-year-old child was found dead Saturday, June 27, in a Mercer County home, according to the coroner.
The child was pronounced dead around 12:15 p.m. inside a Columbia...
Health officials are encouraging people to use bug spray and mosquito-control efforts as West Nile virus season is off to its earliest and worst start in over two decades...
For a celebration as momentous as America’s 250th anniversary, the Butler Eagle spent nearly three years telling the history of the nation, state and county through a spe...
The Subway located at Greater Butler Mart in Butler Township is reportedly being shut down due to health violations after an inspection June 29.
The Pennsylvania Departm...
Zelienople’s Fourth of July celebrations this weekend could see two world records be broken — that is, if the Zelienople Historical Society can find another videographer ...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
HAMDEN, Ohio — Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz while using a route not approved by Iran, state television in Tehran reported Wednesday. The vess...
NEW YORK — Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge Tuesday to require President Donald Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that concluded Trump sexuall...
Multiday warnings of extreme heat landed in New York, Boston and Philadelphia on Wednesday as sultry weather pushed east just ahead of Fourth of July celebrations in a re...
NEW YORK — Two people got to the top of the Empire State Building’s antenna and unfurled a banner about “the power of love” at midday Wednesday, before starting to descen...
WASHINGTON — Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun. Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest — and vice versa. Happy hour reveler...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces struck Russia's major Ufa oil refinery for the second time in a week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.
Almost dail...
A new recall from Ford Motor Co. is affecting hundreds of thousands of pickups and SUVs over concerns about potential damage to the vehicles’ parking system, and it could...
The girls lacrosse scene in Butler County this spring featured prolific goal scorers, players who possess the ability to set up teammates for success and defenders with a...
The felony environmental charges filed last month against the owners of Capital Environmental Risk Transfer Alliance (CERTA) and the business itself for the 2022 release ...
Have you ever voted for a politician who said we should censor the media or ignore court rulings? What about a candidate who encouraged or joked about political violence?...
The Butler County Dairy Promotion team has chosen its Dairy Promotion Court for 2026-27.
The court will consist of Dairy Maids Emmalyn Schaffner and Margaret LeViere; Dai...
NEW YORK — Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People, co-wrote the disco group’s classic hits “Y.M.C.A.,” ″Macho Man” and “In the Navy,” and delighted crowds while...
Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will be a featured speaker at the 2026 Moon2Mars Foundation Summer Speaker Series on Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, at Point Park...
The Jackson Community Foundation will host Taste of the Town from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 13, at the Pittsburgh Event Center, 232 Wise Road, Suite 110, Harmony.
A celeb...
“Liberty” is a word we hear ad nauseam this time of year, and 250 years into “the Great Experiment,” it may behoove us to examine it.
Henry David Thoreau famously said “d...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
Public schools...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...