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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
Area collection site nets more than 12,000 shoeboxes
January 24, 2026 Local News
All Saints Parish in Butler will go through with all of its masses scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 24, but its Sunday schedule has changed. The only mass that will take plac...
January 24, 2026 Local News
Summit Academy announced a student left the school grounds Friday. The student is not dangerous. However, residents should lock their car and house doors, according to a...
January 24, 2026 Local News
Primary ownership of the toy store Playthings Etc. in Clay Township is changing, but remaining in the family. Nadine Shingleton, who opened the business 20 years ago, sai...
January 24, 2026 Business
The Butler County Chamber of Commerce is preparing to a trip overseas for later this year and others are welcomed to join. From Oct. 17 through 24, the chamber has organi...
January 24, 2026 Business
CRANBERRY TWP — A new center is reimagining the way pets receive emergency care. Pets and owners of all sizes and species will be covered around the clock, 365 days of th...
January 24, 2026 Local News
Efforts to keep businesses beyond the three-day event
January 24, 2026 Local News
Buzanoski wrestled as TC Reynolds, Doink the Clown, other characters
January 24, 2026 Local News
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked up in November in the latest sign that prices remain stubbornly elevated, while consumers spent at a h...
January 24, 2026 Business
The stakes are high, the clock is ticking and entrepreneurs are preparing to face the sharks — not on television, but right here in Butler County. Modeled after the longs...
January 24, 2026 Business
Other News
National Guard assisting local police
January 24, 2026 National News
John Brodie, who won an MVP award and was one of the NFL's most prolific passers during a 17-year career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 90. The 49ers said...
January 23, 2026 National News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Texas supplied the most new residents of any U.S. state for nine other states, despite having the biggest population growth this decade, according to figu...
January 23, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — A massive pipe that moves millions of gallons of sewage has ruptured and sent wastewater flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington, D.C., pollut...
January 23, 2026 National News
PHILADELPHIA — Outraged critics accused President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” on Friday after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philad...
January 23, 2026 National News
LOS ANGELES — Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Kevin Johnson died from “blunt head trauma and stab wounds” at a homeless encampment, according to the medical ...
January 23, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Donald Trump announced America was ending its 78-year-old co...
January 23, 2026 National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark that tragic day 40 years...
January 23, 2026 National News
DALLAS — Freezing rain fell in parts of Texas on Friday as a huge, dayslong winter storm began a trek that threatened to bring snow, sleet, ice, bone-chilling temperature...
January 23, 2026 National News
MINNEAPOLIS — Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport Friday, and several thousand gathered in downt...
January 23, 2026 National News
Sports
For the first time in generations, the Pittsburgh Steelers will not be plucking a relative unknown candidate to be their next head coach. Instead, the franchise known for...
January 24, 2026 Professional
Head coach Josh Orris knew early on Owen Layhew had a chance to be special. On Saturday, 20 years after Knoch boys wrestling joined the WPIAL, Layhew proved just how spec...
January 24, 2026 Sports
Win or bust was not Riley Smith’s mindset as a freshman wrestler at Seneca Valley two years ago. He competed in the lightest weight class of 107 pounds, but weighed just ...
January 24, 2026 Sports
Butler County sports five boys high school wrestling programs that produce talented grapplers regularly. Butler and Seneca Valley feature wrestlers in the WPIAL tournamen...
January 24, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — The temperatures outside brought an icy chill Friday night. The spots outside the arc on New Castle’s heat map didn’t bear resemblance. The visiting Red Hurr...
January 23, 2026 Sports
Karns City girls basketball held Redbank Valley to a single point in the fourth quarter in a 66-35 victory over the host Bulldogs on Friday. Naomi Venesky dropped a doubl...
January 23, 2026 Sports
Jesse Minter, Robert Saleh and Jeff Hafley earned their head coaching opportunities on the defensive side of the ball. Three of the five new hires this coaching cycle are...
January 23, 2026 Professional
BUTLER TWP — Most high school basketball players aren’t as lengthy as Andrew Gettinger. Or athletically gifted as Stainton Forbes. There are many more who instead resembl...
January 23, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Supervisors in Jefferson Township are facing a decision that is bound to leave some residents unhappy regardless of what they choose. The future of SEBCO Pool is on the t...
January 24, 2026 Our Opinion
The freight rail system is critical to Western Pennsylvania’s economy. It supports farms, factories and businesses that all depend on timely deliveries and competitive ra...
January 24, 2026 Letters to the Editor
First, let me say, in complete agreement with Jill Mick, what happened to Renee Good should never have happened. In her Jan. 18 letter to the editor, (“Left-wing leaders ...
January 24, 2026 Letters to the Editor
In 2020, Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor and lambasted President Donald Trump for not bringing an end to Nicolás Maduro’s regime. Schumer said Trump’s promise to l...
January 24, 2026 Letters to the Editor
In the Jan. 18 weekend Eagle, there were two opposing viewpoints on the Renee Good murder in Minneapolis. Both were well written, but were based on personal feelings inst...
January 24, 2026 Letters to the Editor
January 24, 2026 Cartoons
A few years back, I was eating Easter dinner with my extended family. Suddenly, we witnessed a police chase that ended with the fleeing driver crashing onto my property. ...
January 24, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lun...
January 24, 2026 Senior
Zachary Slomers received a Master of Business Administration-Finance degree from PennWest Clarion, where he was also a member of the 2025 Academic All-District football t...
January 24, 2026 Community
Members of a Butler County 4-H Club took home the bronze medal from a competition at the Pennsylvania Farm Show on Jan. 14. The Fabulous Fiber 4-H Club placed third in th...
January 24, 2026 Community
Looking to add more flavor and keep salmon fillets moist, I sautéed them on a bed of creamy spinach and seasoned them with garlic and dill. The result was tender, flavorf...
January 24, 2026 Recipes
The Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health Jan. 11, 2026 To Kristin Caro and Brandon King, of Butler, a son named River Nicholas King, at 2:41 a.m. Grandparents are Ni...
January 24, 2026 Birth Announcements
CRANBERRY TWP — At age 97, that number does not define John Bridges. His experiences do. A resident of the Sherwood Oaks senior community for three years, Bridges has par...
January 24, 2026 Community
The following area residents have been named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Butler County Community College Boyers: Canaan Hartle ...
January 24, 2026 Community
Intermediate League of Butler will have a meeting on Monday, Feb. 2, at Christ Community Methodist Church, 205 N. Duffy Road, Butler. Board members will meet at 6 p.m. S...
January 24, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Michele Rae Hays who passed away 25 years ago, January 25th. Sadly missed by, Rick, TJ, and Jake ...
January 24, 2026 In Memoriams
The following area residents have been named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Bucknell University Butler: Megan Baggetta, Chuck Kreinbuch...
January 24, 2026 Deans List
A May 23 wedding is being planned by Laura Ankrom, of Oakland Township, and Mathew Roth, of New Kensington. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Rhonda Ankrom, of Prospect,...
January 24, 2026 Engagements
Arts & Entertainment
There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Butler winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact, you should be able to easily see it long ...
January 24, 2026 Starwatch
At a time when productivity means optimizing every second and screens blur the line between work and home, some people are slowing down and disconnecting by looking to co...
January 24, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
It’s a bold filmmaking choice to have a countdown clock on the screen for most of your movie. In the best-case scenario for a movie like “Mercy,” in which a Los Angeles d...
January 24, 2026 Reviews
Jodie Foster plays a self-assured psychoanalyst whose composure unravels after a patient unexpectedly dies in the genre-bending French film “A Private Life.” Rebecca...
January 24, 2026 Reviews
Other
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. — James 1:5 ...
January 24, 2026 Verse of the Day
January 24, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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