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.
CENTER TWP — Lucian Houllion, co-owner of Mill Hunky Coffee Company in Summit Township, has been steadily growing his tiny, mobile drive-through coffee trailer to the poi...
Butler County is set to receive $2.075 million in reassigned money from the state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program to build a garage for emergency services and di...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — For those recognized at this year’s Butler County Chamber of Commerce Celebrate Business Dinner, the evening is less about a trophy than about having ...
The Butler County commissioners’ plans to renovate Diamond Park in Butler include removing the 1,600 memorial pavers etched with the names of veterans and placing those n...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
Aug. 22 — Jennifer Elizabeth Thomas, 36, of Franklin Township, was charged ...
ADAMS TWP — One decision made at Mars Area School District’s Wednesday board meeting was met with a resounding applause from a crowd of attendees that included members of...
Southern Clarion County Ambulance Service is asking the community for help to keep the service in business.
Citing a significant decrease in the number of calls and patie...
Sign-ups are now open for the three races scheduled to take place in Harmony on Thursday, Dec. 31. The runs range from a half-mile dash to a brand new, indoor toddler run...
BUFFALO TWP — Dozens of Freeport Area School District teachers, counselors and nurses showed up in matching red shirts to a school board meeting Wednesday, Sept. 9, to ca...
A Forward Township man is accused of sexually abusing a girl from the time she was about 9 years old to age 15, according to state police.
James Boring Jr., 53, was char...
NEW YORK — The two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths, a Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Wed...
MIAMI — Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador was in limbo Wednesday as a deadline neared for the Trump administration to decide if th...
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman spoke to the Republican midterm convention via video Wednesday, an extraordinary escalation of the growing rupture between the Pennsylvania...
DALLAS — Republicans opened their unusual midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday by offering speech after speech bashing Democrats and celebrating President Donald Tru...
McARTHUR, Ohio — A man whose 16 grandchildren were discovered living in squalid conditions at a rural southern Ohio home was found mentally incompetent to stand trial Wed...
VIENNA — The U.N. atomic watchdog’s board on Wednesday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years, citing it for failure to cooperate in a ...
NEW YORK — Oil prices shot past $100 a barrel Wednesday as fighting between the U.S. and Iran escalated, threatening to increase costs for consumers and businesses worldw...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chided the international community Wednesday for not taking a tougher stance against Russia over its escalating bo...
BUTLER TWP — Upcoming opponents watching Butler football's film might be fooled when they finally line up defensively on the field.
Ahead of Friday night's trek to Meadvi...
Some teams are starting to separate themselves in the early going.
Butler, Knoch, Karns City and Freeport all improved to 2-0 last week, and Seneca Valley sits at 1-0. B...
Here are the Top 10 passers, rushers, receivers and scorers in the Butler County area so far in 2026. Stats are provided by teams directly, via MaxPreps or accumulated vi...
Here are the latest standings involving Butler County-area teams, as well as full schedules for the week:
Independent
Team Ovr.
Butler 2-0
Friday's game: Butler ...
For the fifth time since 2022, our own Butler County Community College has been named Best Community College in Pennsylvania by Niche.com.
This ranking site considers aca...
JEFFERSON TWP — Mars couldn’t solve Knoch goalkeeper McKenna Jones.
Neither team could solve the weather.
Jones made two stellar saves in the first half — and got some he...
BUFFALO TWP — North Catholic and Freeport girls soccer met three times last season, including a WPIAL Class 2A quarterfinal won by the Yellowjackets in overtime.
The team...
Lucia Leyland scored one goal, and it was all Butler girls soccer needed Wednesday night in a 1-0 win over North Hills.
Avery Singer provided the assist for Leyland in th...
NEW ORLEANS — The Southeastern Conference is no longer expected to vote on whether to expel LSU from the league Thursday, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday...
It's Big Ten vs. SEC Week.
No. 1 Ohio State at No. 4 Texas has been a red-letter game on the college football calendar for months, a litmus test in the debate over co...
The national conversation about how much public surveillance is too much has come to the forefront in Butler County as municipalities weigh the pros and cons of automatic...
I’ve long been intrigued by the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower and believe they each offer important and illuminating examples of the kind...
Thirty-three empty pairs of shoes placed around the Diamond Park fountain represented the 33 lives that were lost to suicide in Butler County in 2025.
Those they represe...
We remember Greg Prokopchak, who entered eternity just three years ago. May the Lord grant him rest and may his memory be eternal.
With Love,
The Prokopchak Family
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NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox’s battle with Parkinson’s disease has “gotten harder,” but he remains optimistic that a cure is coming.
The 65-year-old television star was 29 y...
A new organization in the Karns City area is planning a family event for Sunday, Sept. 13.
Karns City Communities that Care is organizing KC Strong Community Day, to take...
Release a butterfly in memory of a deceased loved one at an event Sept. 13.
The Visiting Nurses Association will host a Community Celebration of Life and Butterfly Releas...
Twenty-five years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it can be difficult to remember just how personal the tragedy once felt. Before the documentaries, anniversary retr...
Grove City Area Historical Society kicks off its speaker series with a program about the music of World War II.
Phil Atteberry will present a program on the music of Worl...
United Methodist Church, 130 Franklin Street in Slippery Rock, will have an artist and craft sale coinciding with Slippery Rock VillageFest on Saturday, Sept. 12.
The sal...
On Sept. 11, 2001, the world watched two skyscrapers plummet to the earth as a result of the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
At that same time, I was watching “B...
Day 1 of the Boots and Grace Music Festival will feature headliner Karen Waldrup, backed by a six-piece band, in a performance the singer described as “having a good time...
As temperatures begin to slowly drop, Eli Nickerson, HVAC service and installation manager with Armstrong Comfort Solutions, likes to take a cooler, late summer day to wa...
