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.
One person died and another was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital following a two-vehicle, head-on crash Tuesday morning, Oct. 6, on Route 68 in Oakland Township.
State pol...
One person was reportedly unresponsive when a head-on collision in the area of 821 Chicora Road in Oakland Township was called into Butler County Emergency Services dispa...
After a renovation that lasted nearly a year, Buffalo Township’s employees and police department have officially moved back into the municipal building on Bear Creek Road...
The new West Virginia University Health System signage in and around Butler Memorial Hospital are the first of many changes patients can expect to see as it takes over In...
JACKSON TWP — At its work session Monday, Oct. 5, the Seneca Valley School District board decided to move two items to its Oct. 12 meeting agenda in a 7-0 vote.
Notably, ...
NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton opened this year’s Clinton Global Initiative conference Sept. 22 in New York, calling on attendees to promise to “step into the v...
The World Health Organization reports that roughly 2.4 million new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year. That makes breast cancer the most common cancer in wome...
These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from Aug. 10 to 14:
Adams Township
Richard and Teresa Bender to Mark and Briget Nicholas at 117 Trapp R...
After meeting with county officials Monday, Oct. 5, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh said she hopes to take some of what she learned from B...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and...
VIENNA — Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made headlines recently by confirming the United States has deployed weapons in space. He did not, however, detail what the weapon...
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell students thronged a campus plaza to protest the university's response to allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house, and the school's main...
President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.
The U.S. military has...
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — President Donald Trump on Monday took his Republican midterm rescue mission to Nebraska, where he signed an executive order to ease limits on the tax...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, killing four people, as the Trump administ...
NEW YORK — Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades.
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VIENNA, Ga. — Law enforcement officials are still working to determine just what happened when a chaotic homecoming party spanning a four-block radius of a southern Georg...
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — A school bus flipped over onto its roof during a multivehicle crash in central Florida on Monday morning, killing two people — including a 10th grade...
Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unkno...
Seneca Valley girls soccer already had a standout goalkeeper and a strong back line entering this season.
But there was one glaring question surrounding the Raiders ...
Joe Rapp’s second gold medal in the District 9 Class 2A Individual Boys Golf Championship came a lot easier than the first.
The A-C Valley/Union senior shot a 7-under...
PITTSBURGH — Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist, Clay Stevenson made 29 saves and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Monday night.
Pittsburgh's Declan ...
North Catholic’s Riley Kontul is moving on to the PIAA Individual Golf Championships.
The junior shot a 10-over 82 Monday at Valleybrook Country Club to finish fourth in ...
MCCANDLESS TWP, Allegheny County — It took all of 22 seconds.
After Seneca Valley girls soccer standout senior goalkeeper Sydney Postler collided with North Allegheny for...
MCCANDLESS TWP, Allegheny County — Maggie Conger gave Freeport the lead. Then she helped ensure the Yellowjackets kept it.
The junior forward scored Freeport’s first two ...
PITTSBURGH — Pat Narduzzi is tired of ACC football being a punching bag in the polls and seemingly everywhere else.
The pathologically unfiltered Pittsburgh coach is rea...
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers placed second-year defensive tackle Derrick Harmon on injured reserve Monday.
The club made the move four days after Harmon injured h...
WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin said Monday his 22nd season in the NHL will be his last, beginning the farewell tour for the longtime Washington Capitals captain who holds the...
Down the hall from the coaches’ office at Butler football stadium, pads and helmets hang from thick hooks and sit stacked on tall metal shelves inside a cramped equipment...
If you know eight women, statistically, you know someone who will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in her life.
According to data from breastcancer.org, bre...
NEW YORK — Journal entries kept by Pope Francis before and during his papacy will be published this fall for the first time.
Image, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ch...
Cranberry Township will present an award for giving at a ceremony Thursday, Oct. 8.
The Cranberry Public Library will host the ceremony from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8, to awa...
Glade Run Lake has some new safety features thanks to an Eagle Scout project.
Patrick Quinn, a 15-year-old sophomore at Mars Area High School and member of Boy Scouts of ...
Mars Area High School will have its homecoming parade at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in Mars, preceding the football game against the Blackhawk Cougars at 7 p.m. at Mars Athle...
In loving memory of our beloved Kathy Zima Kloock whose birthday is October 6th.
Every day in some small way
We miss you more than words can say.
You’re forever in our he...
CBS Sports and Tony Romo have officially parted ways, one month after the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback pleaded no contest to charges of operating a vehicle while int...
NEW YORK — Nearly 12,000 bans took place in public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression orga...
Butler Cultural District and Experience Butler County will present “A Taste of McKean” from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, on McKean Street in Butler.
The event will fea...
CENTER TWP — When it comes to cancer, Cheryl Schaefer is all about the fight.
Schaefer, 68, of Center Township, has fought uterine, breast and thyroid cancer over the yea...
Kathy Garrison has been cancer free for decades now, but her experiences during and after treatment had stuck with her.
One especially impactful struggle for her was in ...
St. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish Catholic nun, spent her life sharing a message of compassion and mercy. At the Slippery Rock parish named for her, sewing ministry volunte...
When Claudia Marley began crocheting breast prostheses at age 70, she hoped to provide comfort to women recovering from mastectomies. The work also brought comfort to her...
While getting a mammogram may not seem like the most glamorous activity, Dr. Matt Miller, a radiologist at Allegheny Health Network, said it’s the “single biggest thing t...
Not long after completing treatment for breast cancer, Linda Todaro found herself in Italy, seated in a dragon boat with other survivors and preparing to compete against ...
