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Local News
A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a...
August 07, 2026 Business
Herman Road in Summit Township faced flooding after heavy rainfall Friday, Aug. 7, including one incident that prompted the dispatch of Butler County Water Rescue Team 30...
August 07, 2026 Local News
Crews from Butler, Allegheny and Beaver counties responded to a tractor trailer fire Thursday night, Aug. 6, on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Cranberry Township, according...
August 07, 2026 Local News
At least one person was injured when a vehicle hit a parked car Thursday night, Aug. 6, in Butler, according to Butler County Emergency Services dispatch. The call came ...
August 07, 2026 Local News
Allegheny Health Network has appointed its new chief medical officer for AHN Wexford Hospital. Steven Goodnow will take over the role effective immediately, according to ...
August 07, 2026 Business
Meta said Thursday that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about...
August 07, 2026 Business
A Butler woman was ordered to pay $12,220 in restitution Thursday, Aug. 6, as part of her sentences for breaking into two Butler businesses twice in November 2024 and ste...
August 07, 2026 Crime & Courts
WK Kellogg said Thursday that it will remove artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year. The change comes a year ahead of schedule. Kellogg said last ...
August 07, 2026 Business
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler July 23 — David Kenneth Freehling, 54, of Butler, was charged with one misd...
August 07, 2026 Local News
A Butler man was sentenced Thursday, Aug. 6, in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve five years of probation after pleading guilty to possession of crack cocaine and...
August 07, 2026 Crime & Courts
Other News
The Senate on Friday confirmed Cameron Hamilton as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, returning the former Navy SEAL to the embattled agency he led temporar...
August 07, 2026 National News
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency's policy gives it broad control over what footage ...
August 07, 2026 National News
Iranian lawmakers are debating the wording of a proposed deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, with U.S. President Donald Trump insisting an agreement is getting closer...
August 07, 2026 International News
NONTHABURI, Thailand — A student opened fire at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20, according to authorities,...
August 07, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of its $400 million ballroom at the White House without congressional...
August 07, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he will back Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche to be confirmed to lea...
August 07, 2026 Breaking News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted on Thursday dozens of Winter Olympians and Paralympians for a reception honoring their accomplishments in the Milano Cortina ga...
August 06, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home. The former Sena...
August 06, 2026 National News
MELBOURNE, Australia — Two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March have been granted citizenship. Fatemeh Pasandideh and ...
August 06, 2026 International News
CAIRO — More than 10 civilians, including a 4-year-old child, were injured in Saudi Arabia on Thursday after a series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to th...
August 06, 2026 International News
Sports
It’s a tricky one this year. Of the Butler Eagle’s 32 Sweet 16 football all-stars on offense and defense last year, only three are back. That kind of turnover means loads...
August 07, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — It’s three weeks until the PIAA high school football season. Butler County teams unofficially kicked off the proceedings Thursday with the third Butler ...
August 06, 2026 Sports
INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA Division II will move to the age-based eligibility model that has prompted athlete lawsuits across the country since it was adopted in Division I. Th...
August 06, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins made a significant investment in their future Thursday, signing forward Ville Koivunen to an eight-year contract worth $4 million ann...
August 06, 2026 Professional
MILWAUKEE — Dustin May won his Milwaukee debut, and Jackson Chourio and Gary Sánchez hit home runs as the Brewers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Thursday afternoon. ...
August 06, 2026 Professional
Butler’s varsity football team hasn’t beaten Seneca Valley on the football field in 7,224 days. That drought will continue for the time being. The Golden Tornado and Raid...
August 06, 2026 Sports
Jane Wymer is enjoying quite a week on the golf course. Wymer, 58, of Penn Township, won her 13th Butler Country Club women’s championship Tuesday. She followed that ...
August 06, 2026 Sports
Auto racing may predominantly be a man's world, but some talented young women are making their mark at Lernerville Speedway. Macey Adamik, a 17-year-old who will be a sen...
August 06, 2026 Sports
Editorial
August 07, 2026 Cartoons
Since its beginnings in the late 1940s in Meridian, supporting the future of agriculture in Butler County has been at the heart of the Butler Farm Show’s mission. While t...
August 07, 2026 Our Opinion
For generations, farming has been built on hard work, determination and a willingness to adapt. While the image of a farmer driving a tractor through a field remains fam...
August 07, 2026 Other Voices
Community
The Butler YMCA will give away backpacks filled with school supplies Wednesday, Aug. 20. The annual Back-to-School Backpack & School Supply Giveaway takes place from 2 to...
August 07, 2026 Community
A clothing sale will be held Monday, Aug. 17 on East North Street in Butler. Butler Global Methodist Church, 200 E. North St. Butler, will have its Second Grace Clothing ...
August 07, 2026 Community
‘When I sew, my head is straight’
August 07, 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 ...
August 06, 2026 Senior
A recent graduate of Seneca Valley Senior High School received a college scholarship related to community service. Luis Torrenegra received $2,000 through the Passavant ...
August 06, 2026 Community
Dare I say the days of summer are starting to wane in Butler. The back-to-school ads are running full-bore on TV, and the meaningless NFL preseason games have begun. One...
August 06, 2026 Community
After a $500,000 donation from Slippery Rock University alumni Joe and Pam Finney, the university will launch a new finance lab in the fall. Students in the Haverlack Col...
August 06, 2026 Community
The following area residents have been named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Kent State University Center Township: Victoria Nebel ...
August 06, 2026 Community
A book’s home might be dictated by its order in the Dewey Decimal System, but materials in the Butler County Federated Library System might spend months or even years awa...
August 06, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Karen Scott who passed away one year ago today, August 7. If tears could build a stairway, And memories were a lane, I would walk right up...
August 07, 2026 In Memoriams
David Brown How can it be 29 years on this day, August 7th that you went to Heaven. I wish we could hear your voice one more time and see your face once more. You weren’t...
August 07, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
“Tony,” the Anthony Bourdain biopic, is a coming-of-age tale for a modern culinary giant. Set over just a summer, it's also clearly an appetizer. And like all first cours...
August 07, 2026 Reviews
“The Purge” for sex is the best way to describe the premise of “One Night Only” unless you prefer Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” for one-night stands. As the movie anno...
August 07, 2026 Reviews
Sydney Towle, a social media content creator who projected enduring optimism as she chronicled her life with a rare form of cancer, has died, according to her family. She...
August 06, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
“House of the Dragon” creator George R.R. Martin has been struggling with depression. The fantasy writer whose “A Song of Fire and Ice” series inspired HBO’s “Game of Thr...
August 06, 2026 People
Other
August 07, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal. — Psalm 119:160 ...
August 07, 2026 Verse of the Day
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