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.
A Prospect man died Thursday, July 9 from injuries sustained June 29 in a motorcycle crash while he was driving to work in Allegheny County.
Gregory McCauley, 43, died in...
A Butler attorney is representing a former Armstrong County corrections officer who police said admitted to assaulting his 2-month-old daughter.
Jakob Craig Hankey, 22, ...
The Butler man accused of hiding a body in a stolen garbage can waived his preliminary hearing Monday, July 13, in exchange for a lower bail, which would allow him to wor...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Champions
Grand Champion Showman, Kai Hess, Slippery Rock
Reserve Grand Champion Sho...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Champions
Supreme Champion Cow, Lydia Kennedy, Cooperstown
Supreme Res. Champion Cow...
The Butler man who died in a boating accident Tuesday, June 30, on Lake Erie was only supposed to be there Monday. But he stayed an extra day to take children who beat ca...
The following are first-place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Foods & Nutrition
Nutrition Project, 8-12, Ava Homze, Butler
Plant Science
Meet...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Adams Twp
June 29 — Brian Joseph Miller, 37, of Slippery Rock, was charged with tw...
Spotlight PA
is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives po...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother's temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death...
PHILADELPHIA — Residents in some Philadelphia neighborhoods and surrounding counties were cleaning up Sunday from widespread damage caused by a line of severe, short thun...
PARIS — Ukraine and nine other countries announced Monday they were forming a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles, utilizing Kyiv’s experience in fighting...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans returned to Washington on Monday with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chair...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States and Iran each asserted Monday they controlled the Strait of Hormuz after a weekend of attacks across the Middle East, furt...
BANGKOK — A huge fire engulfed a pub in Bangkok early Monday morning, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens before firefighters brought the blaze under control,...
Felix White worries his ability to keep working — and avoid a health crisis — could be at risk.
The 62-year-old Montgomery County resident relies on Medicaid to afford th...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of m...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a rural Ohio home for years in squalid conditions is straining the county’s resources as it...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy,...
St. Louis Cardinals second baseman JJ Wetherholt has $20 million in escalators based on MVP voting and All-Star selection as part of his $112.5 million, eight-year contra...
While flag football has gained a strong foothold in Western Pa., it is not yet up to par with other areas of the country.
Josh and Kaitlyn Federkeil, of Meridian, are aim...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, July 13
Summer Baseball
7 — Butler Iron Bucks at Beaver County Cardinals
Wednesday, J...
In what has become a banner day for the program, another former Butler ace could start his professional baseball career this summer.
Madden Clement, who recently entered ...
Following a stellar senior season at Butler, senior pitcher Kyle Casteel was taken by the Chicago White Sox with the second pick in the 11th round round (315th overall) o...
David Leslie’s path to the pros has been a winding one.
The 2020 Butler High School graduate was a catcher growing up. He only became a full-time pitcher after impres...
PITTSBURGH — Paul Skenes won his second straight start after going winless for nine in a row as the Pittsburgh Pirates scored 10 runs in the fourth inning to rout the Mil...
The spot of Crooked Creek Lake was a familiar one: a large portion of a tree that found itself lodged in the bottom of the lake near the original main creek channel.
Over...
Steeples & Stacks is a landmark event for the Butler Cultural District, an initiative that started in 2022 to focus arts and culture in one area of the city.
The event t...
The Social Security Trust Fund will run out of money by late 2032, according to the annual report the program issued last month. The specific date is new — last year’s re...
The end of the inaugural Steeples & Stacks was only the beginning of an art installation which should last for years to come.
Over the two days of Steeples & Stacks this ...
When Butler writer Niki Lott published her children’s book, “The Princess and the Tea” in November, she shared a project that began nearly 20 years earlier as personalize...
Kris McMaster Kriess
July 13
Happy 54th birthday!
Celebrating with you in heaven are, Mom, Sis, and Grandparents.
Here we are celebrating your birthday.
Love you always,
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sam Neill, the smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose prolific career moved from art films to blockbusters as he dodged velociraptors in “Ju...