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Local News
The Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers says it has joined state bankers associations nationwide, urging the U.S. Senate to strengthen provisions of the Clarity...
September 12, 2026 Business
Before the first golfers of the day tee off, Tim Tarcha, director of golf at Slippery Rock Golf Club and Events Center, is already making his rounds. He’s checking course...
September 12, 2026 Local News
Two students from Butler County districts are among the semifinalists for the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program in Pennsylvania. Grace Nam, from Mars Area High Sch...
September 12, 2026 Local News
Independence Health System's Advanced Lung Center at Butler Memorial Hospital is hosting its annual lung cancer awareness walk Oct. 10 at Butler County Community College....
September 12, 2026 Local News
Lancaster Township will kick off its Community Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 26 at Four Springs Park, 1004 W. Lancaster Road. The event begins with a flag ceremony h...
September 12, 2026 Local News
These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from June 22 to 26: Adams Township Brandon and Joanna Fisher to Joseph and Kaitlyn Schmid at 309 Dirkshire C...
September 12, 2026 Real Estate Transactions
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — While Slippery Rock University continues to buck many trends causing strife at colleges across Pennsylvania, university president Karen Riley says har...
September 12, 2026 Local News
CHICAGO — Diesel prices in the U.S. hit yet another record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average as Washington’s war with Iran disrupts the world’s flow of fuel....
September 11, 2026 Business
Details are now available about a third-party fact-finding report approved earlier this week by the Mars Area School District’s board and Mars Area Education Association’...
September 11, 2026 Local News
Two people were scalded with boiling water during a Thursday night break-in in Jackson Township, according to township police. Walid Kourami, 33, of Pittsburgh, is facing...
September 11, 2026 Crime & Courts
Other News
HARRISBURG — For more than two decades, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has worn it almost every day. The small, thin accessory affixed to his lapel — a compressed version...
September 11, 2026 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — Four Pennsylvanians who were vaccinated against measles have contracted the highly contagious illness, state officials announced Friday. Called “breakthrou...
September 11, 2026 Pennsylvania News
CAIRO — Saudi Arabia said Friday it shut down a major pipeline a day after it was attacked by drones, and Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island...
September 11, 2026 International News
Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caugh...
September 11, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The House is expected to take up a punishing Russian sanctions package next week, though prospects of passage are uncertain despite the overwhelming support ...
September 11, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump observed Friday’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the lives lost when a...
September 11, 2026 National News
SAXONBURG — The sister cities of Saxonburg and Muhlhausen, Germany, are more than 4,000 miles apart. But Thursday, Sept. 10, two opposite sides of the world united inside...
September 11, 2026 Local News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Canada on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, his latest international trip aimed at locking in future supp...
September 11, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New Yor...
September 11, 2026 National News
Sports
The Butler Eagle’s photo team was three PIAA football games this week: Apollo-RIdge at Freeport, Chartiers Valley at Mars and Titusville at Slippery Rock. From big hits t...
September 12, 2026 Sports
We’re entering the start of region and section play for some Butler County football teams. Karns City visits Punxsutawney in the first of those clashes in Week 3 of ...
September 12, 2026 Sports
MEADVILLE — Deacon Simko made Butler defensive coordinator Darrell Smith look like a sage Friday night. The Golden Tornado were leading host Meadville 3-0 early in the se...
September 11, 2026 Sports
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — It is always good to have a little luck on your side. It is even better to have Aden Shay. A game that looked like it may be a slow burn on offense fr...
September 11, 2026 Sports
BUFFALO TWP — After two blowout wins to start the 2026 season, Freeport’s third victory didn’t come nearly as easily. The Yellowjackets had to overcome a second-half coll...
September 11, 2026 Sports
ADAMS TWP — Mars beat the clock at the end of the first half. The Planets could not catch the scoreboard in the second, dropping a 38-24 WPIAL Class 4A non-section footba...
September 11, 2026 Sports
Knoch football’s turnaround continued Friday night with a 34-20 win at Ambridge. Running back Ethan Rouleau ran the ball 28 times for 169 yards and two touchdowns, and qu...
September 11, 2026 Sports
Mars girls golf won a tri-match with Butler and Shaler at Suncrest Golf Course on Friday, shooting a collective 177. Shaler scored a 209, and Butler carded a 224 to fall ...
September 11, 2026 Sports
ATLANTA — Cooper Rush will be the Atlanta Falcons' starting quarterback Sunday at Pittsburgh after Tua Tagovailoa was ruled out Friday with an oblique injury. Falcons fi...
September 11, 2026 Professional
CHICAGO — Alex Bregman hit his 25th homer and doubled among three hits, Shota Imanaga tossed six effective innings and the Chicago Cubs pounded the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-...
September 11, 2026 Professional
Editorial
It’s almost unimaginable that 25 years have passed since that day. To be honest, in the early hours of that day, it was a little uncertain that there would be another 25...
September 12, 2026 Our Opinion
September 11, 2026 Cartoons
Community
Slippery Rock University’s Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initiative is presenting four free, interactive family music events throughout the 20...
September 11, 2026 Community
The Evans City Public Library will have a book sale Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-20. The book sale takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the library, 20...
September 11, 2026 Community
Give the board games you’ve finished playing a new home and find something new for your family to enjoy by attending an event at the Worthington West-Franklin Community L...
September 11, 2026 Community
When people wake up in the morning, they want to have something that gives their lives purpose. For many, a job is that reason. The Butler Coffee Lab provides that sense ...
September 11, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Fall movie season also means Oscar season. It might be only just September, but the jockeying for next March’s Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first s...
September 12, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
When remembering “Practical Magic,” Griffin Dunne’s 1998 silly-spooky witchy sister movie, the image immediately conjured has to be “midnight margaritas.” The scene of Ni...
September 11, 2026 Reviews
“The Uprising” starts as a true story of medieval England in the grip of economic revolution. That's good stuff. Then it gets inexplicably hijacked by an origin story...
September 11, 2026 Reviews
Other
I lift up my eyes to the hills — where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. — Psalm 121:1-2 ...
September 12, 2026 Verse of the Day
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 mark a moment in American history that typically draws the question, “Where were you?” The Butler Eagle asked that very question on social me...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
At first, the Butler Eagle’s front page on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, seemed like it was going to look very different than how it ended up. Among the stories that seemed de...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
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