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 presence of more than 100 automatic license plate readers scattered across Butler County is bringing a nationwide issue into focus for residents.
According to DeFloc...
Company says increases for former Butler Area Sewer Authority customers will align costs with others in state
Water prices are about to go up for Pennsylvania American Wa...
NEW YORK — College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after t...
The Butler Eagle recently adjusted its television listings to include sub-channels at the request of our readers.
This change was made last week after readers had expres...
JACKSON TWP — About 50 people packed into the township’s municipal building Thursday, Aug. 20, to express concern about the supervisors’ approach to development in their ...
A Butler man claims in a lawsuit he sustained multiple bone fractures, left arm paralysis and has been in and out of intensive care due to a Jan. 19 collision with a stat...
State police found the body of a PennWest California University freshman soccer player in a vehicle parked near campus Thursday, Aug. 20.
Karoline Jordyn Heintz, 18, of ...
A Philadelphia man is facing drug charges following an incident Friday in the parking lot of a hotel in Butler Township.
Sebastyian Elquan Lebron, 36, was charged with a ...
Students will see a familiar person leading Butler Catholic School when classes begin.
The school recently announced that Elizabeth Baptiste, a teacher who has worked at...
Ask Pennsylvanians to name where in the state they hail from and you’ll get a range of responses.
Linda McKee, a DuBois resident who grew up in Titusville, divides the c...
PHOENIX — Enrollment in the biggest federally funded food aid program in the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in a 12-month span — a decline far steeper than the government ...
NEW YORK — Philanthropist Nancy Kissinger, onetime foreign policy researcher and wife of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, has died. She was 92.
She died Thursda...
A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local au...
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday allowed the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project for now, as t...
NEW YORK — Nearing the six-month mark of the Iran war and facing diminishing stockpiles of key weapons, the Trump administration is touting a crushing financial campaign ...
BOSTON — Harvard Medical School says it agreed to pay $53 million to settle class action lawsuits by relatives of body donors whose remains were sold on the black market ...
CARLISLE, Pa. — Federal investigators have pulled intact data cards from a state police helicopter and Cessna plane that collided at a small airport in central Pennsylvan...
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment to about $6 million against Infowars founder Alex Jones after he falsely claimed the 2012 Sandy Hoo...
TOKYO — Christopher Bodeen, a tenacious, old-school wire service reporter who brought a keen analytical eye and a wry sense of humor to decades of work in China, Taiwan a...
Mars resident Blake Vogel will be competing in the 2026 World Rowing Championships next week in Amsterdam.
Vogel, a 2021 Pittsburgh Central Catholic graduate, spent four ...
Sam Smochek just needed to be a little irked, apparently.
The Slippery Rock junior golfer smashed his tee shot on the 10th hole at Foxburg Country Club on Friday for a ra...
We are ready for some football.
The countdown has already begun for that and all the rest of the fall sports, and the Butler Eagle is gearing up for the 2026 PIAA season ...
After showcasing a prolific offense in 2025, the North Catholic Trojans are back with the same lofty expectations for the PIAA football season but plenty of new faces in ...
A Seneca Valley alum who continued on to success at the college and NFL levels as a player, second-year coach Don Barclay is well-versed on the Raiders’ lore.
“There’s so...
Joe Felitsky threw for 3,388 yards and 46 touchdowns. Logan Schade rushed for 1,104 yards and 18 scores. Preston Simko had 1,020 yards and 18 touchdowns receiving.
Al...
BUTLER TWP — Julian Hunt trusts the man in the mirror.
The Seneca Valley senior cornerback/receiver, an Albany commit, enters each Friday night thinking he’s better than ...
BUTLER TWP — At 5-foot-9, 166 pounds, Will Waskiewicz won’t be the biggest player on a county football field this season.
He may be the busiest.
Waskiewicz returns for hi...
The national debt has ballooned under Republican control. During the president’s first term, he added $7.8 trillion to the national debt. So far in the first year and a h...
The story in the July 12 Butler Eagle showcasing the 41 county adults who gained their GED diplomas (“Residents earn diplomas through BC3 programs,” Page B6) has prompted...
I am going to tell you a story about a girl who, in 1942, was 10 years old. In the year of 1941, the United States of America was attacked by bombers of Japan in Hawaii, ...
Ankle bracelets on Haitian immigrants. The possibility of shock gloves for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Is this the America we know? We are subjugatin...
I am writing in response to express my strong opposition to Scott Timko’s candidacy since learning that he believes that Medicare and Medicaid should be defunded.
These f...
Three supervisors decided to drop an ambulance service for 446 residents of Forward Township because Quality EMS is going to charge $35 per year per household. They then ...
Slippery Rock University and Butler County Community College will both be in session within days and the state police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement and state Liquo...
The Master Gardeners of Butler County will continue its backyard series Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the South Butler Community Library, 240 W. Main St., Saxonburg.
Master Garden...
BUTLER TWP — Keen-eyed visitors of Preston Park’s trails may have noticed a change in the park’s scenery; the bird boxes have recently been upgraded.
Russ Cawthorne, CEO...
Attendees of Butler Italian Days may leave the event with a new kitten in hand.
Cats In Knead will be at Grows on Main with adoptable kittens looking for homes from 11 a....
When tomatoes are at their peak — and it’s too hot to turn on the oven — this simple, no-cook sauce from my cookbook “Pasta Every Day” is what I come back to time and aga...
A friend recently returned from a trip to Sicily and raved about the region's incredible pistachios. I decided to use them as a crunchy crust for salmon fillets.
To make ...
A mother and her daughter are celebrating their birthdays Saturday, Aug. 22. Tracy Davis, of Butler, and her 16-year-old daughter, Riley, share their special day. Riley i...
In loving memory of our dear mother and grandmother, Tonya Geibel, who passed away eight years ago today, August 23, 2018.
The Master’s hand that fashioned you
Will never...
It turns out that the honey business isn't as sweet as it sounds: In the new movie “The Rivals of Amziah King,” beekeepers steal from each other, poison rivals' insects a...
On Aug. 28 and 29, Butler Italian Days will reemerge for its second year of food, vendors, live music and entertainment, marking the event as a countywide celebration of ...
The latest Jason Statham joint, “Mutiny,” isn’t playing coy with its references. The film, directed by Jean-François Richet, written by Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis, is ...
