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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
Not every accident victim can react to first responders in the same way. That’s why Butler County Human Services and Alliance for Nonprofit Resources launched Project REA...
June 19, 2026 Community
Butler County offices and courts still closed Juneteenth
June 19, 2026 Local News
A program that helps keep children fed throughout summer break has officially started its third year of distributions in the region. Dozens of people lined up outside Emi...
June 19, 2026 Local News
Sarver Auto Salvage, in Winfield Township, is facing citations for taking vehicles without titles for scrap and other violations related to compliance with Pennsylvania D...
June 18, 2026 Local News
NEW YORK — Jaelyn Chester will wait your tables or stock your shelves. She’ll wash your dishes or scrub your toilets. If only someone would give the 17-year-old a chance...
June 18, 2026 National News
Major shipowners have begun moving vessels through the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement to end their war, maritime data company Lloyd...
June 18, 2026 Business
Unionized employees at Embassy Suites by Hilton Seattle Downtown Pioneer Square are on strike over faltering contract negotiations during the FIFA Men's World Cup. The st...
June 18, 2026 Business
U.S. regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country’s grids while simultaneously attempting to slow surging utility b...
June 18, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Stocks rose on Wall Street on Thursday and erased most of their losses from a day earlier to notch weekly gains. The market's reversal was powered by sharp ga...
June 18, 2026 Business
Other News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gave the Medal of Honor to three veterans on Thursday, honoring acts of heroism that saved lives and repelled enemy forces in Vietnam ...
June 19, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three people, as the Trump administration wage...
June 18, 2026 National News
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s law requiring children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps must be restored, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of A...
June 18, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione’s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in t...
June 18, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Thursday lifted its blockade of Iran, and oil tankers began freely moving through the Strait of Hormuz after months of being unable to use the cr...
June 18, 2026 International News
PHILADELPHIA — The Trump administration can replace a slavery exhibit at George Washington’s home in Philadelphia, a federal appeals court panel said Thursday, striking d...
June 18, 2026 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for jobless aid fell modestly last week as layoffs remained in the same historically low range of recent years. U.S. applica...
June 18, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — U.S. gas prices fell below $4 a gallon on average Thursday, but just barely. It is the first time since March that the average cost for a regular gallon has b...
June 18, 2026 National News
Former President Barack Obama, joined by three former presidents, celebrated the opening of his presidential museum in Chicago in an extraordinary event Thursday that br...
June 18, 2026 National News
The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur battered parts of the southeastern United States with heavy rain on Thursday, sparking flash flood and tornado warnings along the Gu...
June 18, 2026 National News
Sports
During a regular-season win over Clarion Limestone, Karns City baseball Josh Smith watched two of his batters bash no-doubt homers — in most every other ballpark than the...
June 19, 2026 Sports
NEW YORK — Baseball owners proposed banning high school players from signing with major league teams, raising the age for international amateurs and slashing the money sp...
June 18, 2026 Sports
"State champion" has a nice ring to it. Mars boys lacrosse's Grant Weaver, Reed Fuller, David Renner and Jack Tirch joined the show today to continue celebrating their PI...
June 18, 2026 Sports
With Butler’s baseball season having passed, the 2026 MLB Draft is fast approaching. Two Golden Tornado star pitchers — Kyle Casteel and Nolan Stefaniak — are gaining att...
June 18, 2026 Sports
When it came to softball at St. Francis University, Mars graduate and current Butler coach Kara Sroka was as good as it got. A 2009 SFU graduate, Sroka left the Red Flash...
June 18, 2026 Sports
It makes sense that the older you get, the more you should celebrate each birthday. That’s true for races as well as for people. Strawberry Days 5K in Grove City kicks of...
June 18, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Community
Main Street in Saxonburg hosted its second Mingle on Main of the 2026 season on Thursday night, June 18. Mingle on Main, a showcase of local food and craft vendors, takes...
June 19, 2026 Community
Laura Ankrom and Mathew Roth, of Butler, were united in marriage on May 23, at Butler Assembly of God, in Butler. The Rev. Steve Noullet officiated. A reception followed ...
June 19, 2026 Community
The following area residents were named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Butler County Community College Boyers: Canaan Hartle, Kels...
June 18, 2026 Community
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Gannon University Center Township: Makayla McLister Butler Coun...
June 18, 2026 Community
The thousands of Jeeps that visited Butler over the weekend of June 12 could have made it hard for people to lock in on the specifics of a single vehicle. But one of the ...
June 18, 2026 Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lunch is ...
June 18, 2026 Senior
Experience Butler County creates passport for weeklong event
June 18, 2026 Community
A prominent Slippery Rock University alumnus and his wife made a meaningful investment in the next generation of SRU students. Charlie Sheetz, a 1974 graduate of SRU, and...
June 18, 2026 Community
The annual Saxonburg Fireman’s Carnival will feature a special blessing on Tuesday, June 23. Prior to the annual pet parade, there will be a blessing of the pets in the p...
June 18, 2026 Community
Michael Markiw II and Deborah Markiw, of West Sunbury, celebrated 50 years of marriage on June 12 with a family trip to the Outer Banks. Michael Markiw II married the for...
June 18, 2026 Community
Announcements
The Family of Patricia Cousins wishes to express our sincere thanks to all for your words of sympathy, food and your presence at the service. Masses to be said and your s...
June 19, 2026 Other Tributes
Remembering with love these neighborhood friends and family who all passed away five years ago in 2021. “Then shall the dust return to earth as it was, and the spirit sha...
June 19, 2026 In Memoriams
IN MEMORIAM AND BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE
June 19, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Tom Dreesen, who along with partner Tim Reid formed one of America’s first interracial stand-up comedy duos and later spent years as Frank Sinatra’s opening...
June 18, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her youthful voice in Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” and her villainous performance in the thriller “The Ring,” has di...
June 18, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Arriving on all VOD platforms this week is a small movie with a big heart and an incredible story. “Burt,” by writer/director Joe Burke, sports a debut film performance f...
June 18, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
The Harmony Borough Parks Board’s Summer Concert Series begins Thursday, June 18, with a performance by This, That and the Other Thing. The show will begin at 7 p.m. in t...
June 18, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
NEW YORK — Sean Penn will direct a movie about a police officer who was at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. Following his Oscar-winning p...
June 18, 2026 People
Other
June 19, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
Fathers, do not exasperate your children, instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. — Ephesians 6:4 ...
June 19, 2026 Verse of the Day
June 18, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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