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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
During a meeting on Thursday, Feb. 19, Jackson Township supervisors approved a final application for Kobe Point, a planned residential development that will bring 42 sing...
February 23, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — Community was at the core of the Butler Rotary Club PM Luncheon for Literacy, held at Butler County Community College’s Founders Hall on Sunday afternoon, Fe...
February 23, 2026 Local News
A 37-year-old Butler man said he stabbed and killed a 69-year-old man at his Butler home after planning a robbery, according to charges filed Monday, Feb, 23, by state po...
February 23, 2026 Local News
Slippery Rock University alumna Gina Novario is part of a research team at the University of Pittsburgh’s Accessible Smart Tech Lab. It provides technological solutions f...
February 23, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — A quiet July morning was met with tragedy when Megan Coulter collapsed in her Cranberry Township home from a stress-induced heart attack that sent her int...
February 23, 2026 Local News
SUMMIT TWP — Members of “Cherrie’s Angels” — the group of volunteers rallying to solve the 1985 disappearance of then-8-year-old Cherrie Mahan — are optimistic this is th...
February 23, 2026 Crime & Courts
Jackson Township officials are laying the groundwork for long-term infrastructure and recreational improvements along the growing Gudekunst Road corridor through a neighb...
February 22, 2026 Local News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier after the U.S. Supreme Court struck do...
February 22, 2026 National News
Other News
WASHINGTON — A trio of Senate Democrats is calling for the government to start refunding roughly $175 billion in tariff revenues that the Supreme Court ruled were collect...
February 23, 2026 National News
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Twenty-five members of the Mexican National Guard were left dead in six separate attacks after special forces killed the notorious leader of the ...
February 23, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — A massive snowstorm pummeled the northeast United States on Monday, forcing millions of people to stay home amid strong wind and blizzard warnings, transportat...
February 23, 2026 National News
LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Nick Reiner...
February 23, 2026 National News
CLAIRTON — The sale of United States Steel was always going to be a global affair. Reporters from across the world descended into the Monongahela River Valley, south of P...
February 23, 2026 Pennsylvania News
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military killed at least 70 militants in strikes along the border with Afghanistan early Sunday, targeting what it described as hide...
February 22, 2026 International News
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver’s licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many birth certificates under a new law that go...
February 22, 2026 National News
NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses at a big New York hospital system approved a new contract Saturday, voting to end a major nursing strike after more than a month. More than 4,000...
February 22, 2026 National News
The U.S. and Iran are set to resume talks Thursday in Geneva, Omani mediators said, extending the search for a diplomatic solution to the latest standoff over Tehran’s nu...
February 22, 2026 National News
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel , Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho," on Sunday, decapitating what had b...
February 22, 2026 International News
Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. It will be updated throughout the postseason. Monday, Feb. 23 Boys Basketball 7:30 — WPIAL Class ...
February 23, 2026 Sports
MILAN — No miracle needed. The United States is on top of the hockey world for the first time in nearly a half-century. Jack Hughes scored in overtime and the U.S. defea...
February 22, 2026 Professional
Five Butler County teams are left standing, and all have a chance to make their respective district championship games this week. Seneca Valley (Class 6A) and North Catho...
February 22, 2026 Sports
Knoch boys basketball is in just its second WPIAL championship game, Seneca Valley is in the Class 6A semifinal, and Moniteau can punch a ticket Tuesday to the District 9...
February 22, 2026 Sports
As I write this, we are in the midst of a spate of mild weather with temperatures in the 50s. Spring is on the way, though painstakingly slow perhaps. Now is a good time ...
February 22, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Even 41 years after her disappearance, Cherrie Mahan’s name still comes up all the time, especially in Butler County, where she lived before disappearing on Feb. 22, 1985...
February 23, 2026 Our Opinion
Community
Rowan Elementary students chosen for ‘solid character and good morals’
February 23, 2026 Community
Winter is the shortest season of the year here in Butler, at least astronomically. Weather-wise though it’s a whole different story! Even if you enjoy this season, winter...
February 22, 2026 Starwatch
Announcements
February 23, 2026 Other Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
Conan O’Brien, whose holiday party was reportedly the site of several confrontations involving Nick Reiner in the hours before police say he murdered his parents, has bro...
February 22, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
It was a battle of the holdovers at the North American box office this weekend, with the family friendly film “GOAT” edging out the R-rated “Wuthering Heights.” Sony Pi...
February 22, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. — 1 John 4:18 ...
February 23, 2026 Verse of the Day
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