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 Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers says it has joined state bankers associations nationwide, urging the U.S. Senate to strengthen provisions of the Clarity...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — While Slippery Rock University continues to buck many trends causing strife at colleges across Pennsylvania, university president Karen Riley says har...
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....
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’...
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...
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...
PHILADELPHIA — Four Pennsylvanians who were vaccinated against measles have contracted the highly contagious illness, state officials announced Friday.
Called “breakthrou...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CHICAGO — Alex Bregman scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning when Gregory Soto hit Nico Hoerner with a pitch with the bases loaded and two outs, and the Chicago Cu...
PHILADELPHIA — Rocco Becht threw for 268 yards and three touchdowns, with two of those scores to tight end Benjamin Brahmer, to help No. 16 Penn State beat Temple 27-9 Sa...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Slippery Rock University’s Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initiative is presenting four free, interactive family music events throughout the 20...
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...
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...
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 ...
Catherine and Douglas Miller, of Jefferson Township, celebrated 50 years of marriage on Sept. 6, with a family dinner at Grand Concourse, in Pittsburgh.
Miller married th...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
