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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.
Local News
Credits long-distance girlfriend with survival
April 23, 2026 Health
More than $3 million in rehabilitation work on five structurally deficient bridges in Jefferson and Penn townships could begin next year. The Butler County commissioners ...
April 23, 2026 Government
An Allegheny Township official has been reelected to serve as vice president of the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, the organization announced Tue...
April 23, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — When firefighters climbed a burning home and rescued Bryonna Spurk, 16, from her second-story bedroom on April 8, they were given directions by dispatchers a...
April 23, 2026 Local News
A Butler couple is accused of burglarizing an Evans City home. Nathan David Leasher, 39, and Beth Ann Leasher, 44, were charged Wednesday, April 22, by Evans City police...
April 23, 2026 Local News
EAST LANSING, Mich. — There’s a surprising amount of science in a bag of potato chips. Researchers have spent decades developing potatoes for chipmakers that can grow in...
April 23, 2026 Business
Mars High School’s Fightin’ Planet is making a deep run in the 2026 National High School Mascot brackets. The No. 14-seeded Fightin’ Planet are seeking votes to beat the...
April 22, 2026 Local News
PITTSBURGH — The runway up to the NFL draft can feel endless for the young men who put themselves under its exacting process. Years of hard work followed by weeks of bein...
April 22, 2026 Professional
A 2018 graduate of Karns City Area Jr./Sr. High School finished in the top 12% of runners in this year’s Boston Marathon on Monday, April 20. A Jackson Township man also ...
April 22, 2026 Local News
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation added a specialized webpage to its 511 traveler information website to provide real-time travel information during the NFL d...
April 22, 2026 Local News
Other News
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market rallied to more records Wednesday after GE Vernova, Boston Scientific and other big companies joined the parade reporting fatter profits ...
April 23, 2026 National News
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday concluded a marathon series of hearings with federal lawmakers, during which he deflected blame for measles outbre...
April 22, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving his job, the Pentagon abruptly announced Wednesday, the first head of a military service to depart during President Don...
April 22, 2026 National News
ATLANTA — U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80. Scott, who was seeking his 13th ...
April 22, 2026 National News
NAHUNTA, Ga. — Wildfires burning across the southeastern U.S. forced more people to flee Wednesday after destroying nearly 50 homes in Georgia and causing some schools cl...
April 22, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key water...
April 22, 2026 International News
Sports
KARNS CITY — After every game, Karns City senior baseball player Joey O’Donnell called his grandfather to tell him how it went. O’Donnell pitched a one-hitter and struck ...
April 23, 2026 Sports
Pittsburgh expects more than 50,000 participants for the annual running rite of spring — Pittsburgh Marathon on the first weekend in May. While there’s nothing like the t...
April 23, 2026 Sports
The 2026 NFL Draft is coming to Pittsburgh for the first time, allowing fans to see where the league’s top prospects end up in person next month. Here’s information on ho...
April 22, 2026 Sports
PHILADELPHIA — Trevor Zegras, Rasmus Ristolainen and Nick Seeler scored three goals on four shots in the second period in Philadelphia's first home playoff game in eight ...
April 22, 2026 Professional
Abby Kalkowski continued her stellar senior season, striking out 14 and hitting a solo home run to break a tie in the top of the eighth inning as Seneca Valley softball t...
April 22, 2026 Sports
Quarterback competitions traditionally have been the focal point of spring football when a team has lost its starter from the previous season. Look no further than the Bi...
April 22, 2026 College
A look at football players in the Big Ten this spring who are poised to have breakout seasons this fall: Illinois TE Kaden Feagin is changing positions after spending his...
April 22, 2026 College
The lifetime road of Levi Wentz is a weary one. But the Valencia resident and Pine-Richland graduate is more than energized these days. Growing up a basketball player, We...
April 22, 2026 Sports
Editorial
April 22, 2026 Cartoons
Jimmy Carter was president, the country was still riding the wave of the U.S. men’s hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice,” the original Pac-Man was gearing up to chomp its way t...
April 22, 2026 Our Opinion
April 24 is Arbor Day, when Americans will gather to plant trees on city streets, in parks and within other open spaces. But this year, as wildfires, drought and flooding...
April 22, 2026 Other Voices
Community
WINFIELD TWP — A group of Cub Scouts from Saxonburg’s Pack 51 spent their Earth Day planting dozens of trees at Winfield Township’s Community Park. “It’s a good day to br...
April 23, 2026 Community
JEFFERSON TWP — Whether being bitten by a dog, avoiding a thrown beer bottle, braving minus 40 wind chills, undergoing hernia and back surgeries … none of that stopped hi...
April 22, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved George Mourer who passed away 14 years ago today. Today recalls sad memories, Of a husband dear, gone to rest, And the ones who think of h...
April 23, 2026 In Memoriams
In loving memory of our beloved sister Judy Yohe who passed away one year ago today April 23. God took her home, it was His will. But in our hearts, we love her still. He...
April 23, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Birders will guide a search of Moraine State Park for early season migrants from sparrows, warblers, tanagers, thrushes, kinglets, gulls, terns, loons, grebes, cormorants...
April 23, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
NEW YORK — Dave Mason — the co-founder of the psychedelic British band Traffic, songwriter behind classic rock hits “Feelin’ Alright” and “Hole in My Shoe,” and Rock & Ro...
April 22, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz are sparking engagement rumors, with the actress-director spotted multiple times rocking a massive diamond on her left ring finger. The pop s...
April 22, 2026 People
The semiannual Paw Print Basket Bingo fundraiser, hosted by Operation Spay Neuter, will take place April 25 at Highfield Hall, 229 Highfield Road, Butler Township. Doors ...
April 22, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
The Revelation Ringers — made up of Grove City College students, Celebration Community Ringers and the Glenn Memorial Ringers of Tower Presbyterian Church — will present ...
April 22, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
‘Here We Sit’ a comedy about the theatre-going experience
April 22, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
People of my generation are contracting what’s known as “music festival fever.” Essentially, they’re feeling a sense of loss when they cannot afford to attend the big-nam...
April 22, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Theatergoers of a certain age will recognize the DNA of “Disaster! A Musical,” the gleefully absurd jukebox musical spoof by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick. Drawing ins...
April 22, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Other
Since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so th...
April 23, 2026 Verse of the Day
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