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State police are setting up sobriety checkpoints around Butler County this weekend, according to a Friday, May 29, news release.
The checkpoints and DUI enforcement will ...
CRANBERRY TWP — At Thursday’s agenda preparation meeting, the board of supervisors voted unanimously in favor of acquiring a 10-acre property for potential future recreat...
A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge will issue a decision on a former Middlesex Township man’s challenge of his conviction for raping a Cranberry Township woman in 2...
Nearly a year after city streets flooded as a result of severe thunderstorms, officials are spending big to mitigate future stormwater in a problem area.
Butler City Coun...
After months of deliberation, city officials have officially approved the creation of an independent land bank in hopes of rehabilitating problem properties.
Butler City ...
JACKSON TWP — While Seneca Valley Senior High School’s graduating students expressed a triumphant tone, realizing they were finally done with high school, they also showe...
LAS VEGAS — Billionaire hospitality mogul Tilman Fertitta is acquiring Caesars Entertainment for almost $6 billion, a merger that would create one of the largest gaming e...
The dismissal of charges against a former Knoch School District teacher accused of assaulting a student was reversed Thursday, May 28.
Carly Ann Miller, 36, of Allison Pa...
A Bridgeville man is accused of stealing more than $1,000 in trading cards and related merchandise from Target in Cranberry Township.
Andre Lee Maretsky, 26, was charged...
DALLAS — Authorities are searching Friday for more potential victims of an explosion and massive fire that destroyed a Dallas apartment building and killed at least three...
HONOLULU — A man wanted in connection with the killings of three men was apprehended Thursday after a massive search of Hawaii’s Big Island that had left residents on edg...
BUCHAREST, Romania — A Russian drone that was part of an attack on Ukraine went astray and struck an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people in the NAT...
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s holding a White House Situation Room meeting with his advisers as he looks to make a “final determination” on mo...
WASHINGTON — Local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for launching an “unlawful, arbitrary and u...
WASHINGTON — More Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain low despite economic uncertainty caused by the Iran war.
The Labor Department repo...
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska — Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska’s Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak, the National Par...
DALLAS — A huge fire destroyed a two-story apartment building in Dallas on Thursday, causing fatalities and injuring at least four people, and the search for the missing ...
Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion whose ferocious, hard-hitting style of play angered opponents and sometimes overshadowed his prodigious skills and ab...
WASHINGTON — A roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term was supposed to be an easy lift for Republi...
The PIAA baseball tournament begins Monday, with Butler County teams Butler and Moniteau in the mix.
See the full PIAA brackets below. Results and upcoming matchups will ...
The PIAA softball tournament begins Monday, with Butler County’s North Catholic making the field.
See the full PIAA brackets below. Results and upcoming matchups will be ...
Making it 50 years is reason to celebrate.
And celebrate Butler County Soccer Association will — with a festival-style day of games, food and activities Saturday at the B...
Wyatt Schilling, a middle school student at Portersville Christian School, competed in the Eastern Nationals Archery Championship May 7 in Louisville, Ky., and won the 3-...
PITTSBURGH — Leslie Dowdle called it.
Months before her son Rico entered free agency after running for more than 1,000 yards for Carolina, Leslie Dowdle rang Rico just mi...
The search for Slippery Rock University’s first women’s flag football coach did not have to look too far, it turned out.
Lisa Horton, who has spent the last three sea...
The WPIAL baseball tournament concludes with the finals on Memorial Day week.
Same with District 9 and 10.
Check out the latest championship matchups, sites times and wi...
PITTSBURGH — Ian Happ homered for the second consecutive game, and the Chicago Cubs handed Paul Skenes his third straight loss with a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pira...
The WPIAL softball playoffs reach the championship round on Memorial Day week.
See the latest WPIAL, District 9 and District 10 tournament brackets, including championshi...
The Butler Eagle will be running a list all golf season of local golfers who make holes-in-one throughout Butler County.
The first was reported April 11 at Slippery Rock...
Butler County first responders know, in a cardiac emergency, every second counts.
PulsePoint Respond, a 911-integrated mobile app, is about to give them — and cardiac pa...
Spring in Pennsylvania is always unpredictable, but this year’s weather has delivered a damaging combination of warm temperatures followed by hard freezes and repeated sw...
The Cranberry Elks Lodge will host its annual Flag Day Ceremony at noon June 14, at the lodge, 20720 RTE 19, Cranberry Township. The event, which is open to the public, c...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will bring its “iScream” truck to the Butler Area Public Library, offering free vegan ice cream starting at 11:30 a.m. on Frid...
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 ...
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Belmont University
Freeport: Anna Kruse, Maxwell Kruse
Grove Ci...
June stargazing is definitely a late show, with true darkness not setting in over Butler until after 10 p.m.
Mercifully, the best celestial show this month happens durin...
Saint Vincent College announced that Makenna Maier, a senior mathematics education major from Butler, won the 2026 Kathleen Durkin Bendel Memorial Scholarship.
The $1,00...
The season has felt close to perfect for the Slippery Rock University women’s lacrosse team, which finished the season with a 20-1 record. Players and coaches say the suc...
Joseph M. Roman
May 29th
Happy Birthday to my Dad, who would be 109 today.
You were always there and I valued the time we had together.
Love,
your son, Joey
...
In loving memory of my beloved mother Rita Yasinsky who passed away four years ago today, May 29.
Sweet memories will linger forever. Time cannot change them, it’s true.
...
Greta Schmidt received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from West Virginia University. She graduated Summa cum laude, made WVU Honors College and was in the Sigma ...
NEW YORK — A day after the President Donald Trump -affiliated Freedom 250 announced the “first wave” of performers for “The Great American State Fair” shows on Washington...
WASHINGTON — Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., are...
WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria — An Austrian court on Thursday convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago.
The state court in ...
