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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
A former Pittsburgh housekeeper is accused of stealing more than $6,000 from his client in Cranberry Township. Willians Leite Pestana, 35, was charged Thursday, July 9, b...
July 11, 2026 Local News
State police recorded 165 fewer crashes and 10 fewer deaths the weekend of July 4 compared with Independence Day weekend the previous year, according to statistics releas...
July 11, 2026 Local News
The residents of the Rolling Valley Estates mobile home park in Connoquenessing Township are under another “boil water advisory” as of Thursday, July 9. The advisory is i...
July 11, 2026 Local News
Those looking for the Genesis Medical Associates primary care facility near Butler Memorial Hospital need not worry; it hasn’t disappeared. It has simply moved a few mile...
July 11, 2026 Health
Longo: Community unites to help one another
July 11, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education announced a new initiative to cover remaining tuition costs for in-state undergraduate students who receive federal and st...
July 11, 2026 Local News
A Butler man allegedly struck his father multiple times with a hammer and was found with another weapon, a Molotov cocktail, in Franklin Township, state police said. Tim...
July 11, 2026 Local News
A 66-year-old Butler man is accused of exposing himself in front of multiple children at a public pool in Slippery Rock Township. Richard Edward Weiland was charged Frida...
July 11, 2026 Local News
Two school districts will be added to the growing list of schools across Pennsylvania adding cellphone bans to the books. Earlier this week, Knoch High School principal K...
July 11, 2026 Education
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday. Champions Supreme Ewe, Bobbie Jo Morrison, New Castle Supreme Ram, John DeRunk, Wes...
July 11, 2026 Agriculture
Other News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is demanding that Iran make a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and that ships crossing the vital corridor won't be attacked anym...
July 10, 2026 International News
HOUSTON — Three men inside a van who witnessed the fatal shooting of the driver by an immigration officer in Houston said the Mexican man was shot through a passenger win...
July 10, 2026 National News
On Friday, a group of retired judges stepped off a tour bus in a ritzy Michigan suburb after three days of barnstorming through corn fields, cities and coal towns in Ohio...
July 10, 2026 National News
Sports
Golf Twisted Tees July 7 at Slippery Rock Golf Club Putters: Karen Douthett, Karen Perry (44) Birdies: Pam White (48) Pars: Beth Lysinger (49)...
July 11, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — The scheduled game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates was postponed because of rain Friday night and rescheduled for Saturday as part of a ...
July 10, 2026 Professional
Four different Butler Iron Bucks pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter, as the Iron Bucks routed Plum 10-2 Thursday at Pullman Park. Dylan Smith started and lasted one i...
July 10, 2026 Sports
The St. Louis Cardinals and JJ Wetherholt have agreed to an eight-year, $112.5 million contract that starts next season and buys out the rookie second baseman's first sev...
July 10, 2026 Professional
David Leslie wasn’t accustomed to lackluster outings. The Butler graduate and 2025 American Baseball Coaches Association All-American pitcher ventured into choppy wat...
July 10, 2026 Sports
Editorial
July 10, 2026 Cartoons
Well, it’s happened again. For the fifth year in a row, Pennsylvania lawmakers missed the deadline for passing a state budget. Republicans who control the state Senate se...
July 10, 2026 Our Opinion
Pennsylvania is producing 60% fewer new teachers than it did a decade ago. So what needs to be done to address this shortage? Having dedicated my career to teaching and e...
July 10, 2026 Other Voices
Community
There will be a blood drive Tuesday, July 14, at Butler Memorial Hospital, 100 Memorial Drive, Butler, for Community Blood Bank. The Community Blood Bank is encouraging c...
July 10, 2026 Community
The Zelienople Historical Society is selling tickets for its annual quilt raffle at the borough’s weekly open air markets, held Thursday afternoons on Main Street, Zelien...
July 10, 2026 Community
The Butler County Historical Society will present a talk about Walter Lowrie on Thursday, July 16. The fourth installment in the historical society’s America250 Talk seri...
July 10, 2026 Community
Moraine, Cranberry Township have renowned courses
July 10, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our very dear twins, our mother and our aunt, Irene and Geraldine Fair, on their birthday July 11. A Happy Heavenly Birthday Prayer for Our Twins "Hea...
July 11, 2026 Birthday Tributes
Alexis McKinney July 18, 1996 - July 11, 2012 14 years you have been gone. Not a day goes by that we don’t think about you and what life would be like if you were still h...
July 11, 2026 Birthday Tributes
In loving memory of William “Bill” Bieber who passed away 20 years ago today, July 11, 2006. Twenty years you didn’t get to live and memories you didn’t get to make. What...
July 11, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
When the young, slightly redheaded 21-year-old George Washington was asked to deliver a message to Virginia, he stopped in what is now Harmony. A Native American told him...
July 11, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Say what you will about them, but the Disney live-action remakes have at least given us a choice. Which would you rather see? A spirited, soaring, animated “Moana,” or a ...
July 11, 2026 Reviews
French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček vowed when he took charge of the sixth installment in the “Evil Dead” film series that it would be the most brutal. Mission accomplishe...
July 11, 2026 Reviews
Butler doubled its Inspiration Trail bench collection Friday, July 10, as it unveiled two new art installations in front of the Arc of Butler County and the Butler Family...
July 10, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
July 11, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. — Philippians 1:6 ...
July 11, 2026 Verse of the Day
July 10, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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