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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.
Local News
One lane of South Duffy Road in Butler Township will be closed Wednesday, July 8, to replace a storm sewer pipe, according to the township’s director of public works. Th...
July 02, 2026 Local News
BC3 Future Fund looks to raise $6 million
July 02, 2026 Local News
Bob Barnes is being honored as grand marshal of the Harrisville Community Days’ parade Saturday in recognition of his volunteer work for one of the event’s main attractio...
July 02, 2026 America 250
MIDDLESEX TWP — Township manager Jeffrey Winkle will step away from his post on Friday, Aug. 7, after nearly four years on the job. The township board of supervisors off...
July 02, 2026 Local News
Independence Health System offers tips on staying cool
July 02, 2026 Local News
ADAMS TWP — To commemorate nation’s 250th anniversary, nine of Adams Township Community Park’s 100 acres was picked as the setting. At 5 p.m. on Wednesday, crowds started...
July 02, 2026 Local News
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — After months of work, township officials are moving forward with a revised Act 537 sewer plan ahead of the September deadline to resubmit one to the...
July 02, 2026 Local News
When Ignacio Carrizalez arrived in the United States from Mexico 22 years ago, he came with nothing and he knew no one. Ignacio fought a lengthy, expensive and oftentime...
July 02, 2026 Local News
Allegheny Health Network announced Wednesday, July 1, it had completed a merger with Heritage Valley Health System. The merger includes facilities in Lawrence, Beaver an...
July 02, 2026 Business
A Butler man assaulted one woman after he shot fireworks at the car of another woman she was with Sunday, June 28, police said. Joshua Sean Young, 40, was charged Monday...
July 02, 2026 Local News
Other News
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...
July 02, 2026 History
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...
July 01, 2026 National News
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...
July 01, 2026 International News
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...
July 01, 2026 National News
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...
July 01, 2026 National News
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...
July 01, 2026 National News
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...
July 01, 2026 International News
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...
July 01, 2026 International News
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...
July 01, 2026 National News
Sports
Winning a district and state championship requires star power. Mars boys lacrosse extended its WPIAL Class 2A dynasty to 10 consecutive crowns and returned to the summit ...
July 02, 2026 Sports
Cameron Varner allowed just three hits in a complete-game effort as Butler’s 12U Little League all-star baseball team defeated Franklin 6-1 Wednesday to clinch the Distri...
July 01, 2026 Sports
Jon Livermore, on Krendale West’s 145-yard No. 2 hole, using a gap wedge. ...
July 01, 2026 Sports
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...
July 01, 2026 Sports
Editorial
July 01, 2026 Cartoons
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 ...
July 01, 2026 Our Opinion
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?...
July 01, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Viewers of the Hobnob Theatre Company’s new production will be swept back in time to the 1920s alongside the film’s main character, encountering how the town and its peop...
July 02, 2026 Community
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...
July 01, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will celebrate their wedding at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the sec...
July 02, 2026 People
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...
July 01, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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...
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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...
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
45-minute fireworks display to commemorate anniversary
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
“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...
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Other
July 02, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
By the grace given me I say to everyone of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with ...
July 02, 2026 Verse of the Day
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...
July 01, 2026 Special Sections
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...
July 01, 2026 Special Sections
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...
July 01, 2026 Special Sections
July 01, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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