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.
The Mars Area Public Library is recruiting some unconventional help to give children an opportunity to practice reading.
The library’s Paws to read with Wally program is ...
As the new leader of the Butler County Republican Committee of Pennsylvania, Stacey Palmer wants to introduce a new motto for the local party: “Every year, twice a year.”...
Butler Transit Authority’s board of directors announced a set of changes to the authority’s bus routes and schedule set to go in effect on Feb. 9.
Authority executive dir...
The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad has completed repairs to a crossing on a section of railroad it owns at Mars/Evans City Road in Adams Township. Repairs started around...
Butler Area School District will make more investments into agricultural education thanks to a youth agriculture grant from the state.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agri...
The discount grocery chain Aldi is expanding rapidly and plans to open more than 180 U.S. stores this year as more Americans skip nights out at restaurants and cook at ho...
WASHINGTON — Inflation cooled a bit last month as prices for gas and used cars fell, a sign that stubbornly elevated cost pressures are slowly easing.
Consumer prices ro...
ADAMS TWP — A wave of coaches, players and parents on Tuesday night flooded the Mars Area School District administration building to advocate for adding a new Pennsylvani...
NUUK, Greenland — The leaders of Denmark and the country's territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump's calls for the United ...
GUANARE, Venezuela — Freedom came too late for Edilson Torres.
The police officer was buried Tuesday in his humble, rural hometown following his death in a Venezuelan pri...
NEW YORK — Dogs are great at learning action commands like “sit” and “stay.” They're less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has ...
DETROIT — President Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of his sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, traveling to swing-state Michigan to push the case that he’s boosted ...
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that they will refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena to tes...
For the first time in nearly two decades, the Pittsburgh Steelers will be in search of a new head coach.
Team president Art Rooney II announced Tuesday afternoon head coa...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked Tuesday to at least 2,000 people killed, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a second major drone and missile bombardment of Ukraine in four days, officials said Tuesday, aiming again at the power grid amid freezing...
After four years and two WPIAL semifinal appearances, Mars head football coach Eric Kasperowicz is returning home.
Kasperowicz is expected to be named the North Hills hea...
In the wake of his 10th season as Slippery Rock High’s head football coach, Larry Wendereusz said he was looking forward to the 2026 season.
Two months later, he’s had a ...
BUTLER TWP — Opportunities lost — as in multiple.
Such was the theme of Butler’s 53-51 WPIAL Section 1-6A boys basketball loss to Fox Chapel Tuesday night on the Golden T...
JEFFERSON TWP — Joe Lafko tells his Knoch boys hoops team that, if the other team has 45 points or fewer at the end of the game, it usually results in a Knights win.
“I t...
Andrew Omasits scored 18 points, and Seneca Valley boys basketball allowed just 14 points in the first half of Tuesday’s 50-37 victory against visiting Pine-Richland.
Jax...
PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin, as always, got right to the point.
“When you don’t get it done, words are cheap,” a subdued Tomlin said Monday night after the Pittsburgh Steele...
It's not always easy to live up to your own standards.
For Seneca Valley senior diver Ali Waters, a UNC-Wilmington commit, her benchmark stares down at her from the walls...
The defending PIHL and state champion Seneca Valley boys hockey team will be represented by five players in this year’s PIHL Class AAA all-star roster.
Jacob Gilbert (sen...
It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences.
This is a serious mistake. The scien...
Butler Mayor Bob Dandoy is a man with a plan.
The recently reelected mayor recently shared his proposal for using $15 million the city received from the sale of the Butle...
Good Samaritan Hospice, a mission of Concordia Lutheran Ministries, will host a free weekly grief support group from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursdays from Jan. 29 through March 2...
Slippery Rock Area School District has opened its kindergarten registration for the 2026-27 school year.
Parents of prospective students must call to schedule an appointm...
Even snow, sleet and hail cannot stop Bill Uram from golfing. As long as there is one day each month where the weather is clear, his 50-year streak can continue.
Uram has...
In loving memory of our beloved Norma J. Knauer whose birthday is January 13
January 13, 2026 would have been your 85th birthday
Without candles and cake,
And since you’r...
In its first year of operation, what was then known simply as the Community Health Clinic enrolled 600 county residents, saw more than 1,400 patient visits and hired five...
LONDON — The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show.
Trump filed a la...
Scott Adams, whose popular comic strip “Dilbert” captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern offi...
God has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's ...
