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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
CRANBERRY TWP — Township supervisors, during a meeting Thursday, Feb. 5, moved forward with replacing the emergency traffic signal in front of the fire station along Rout...
February 07, 2026 Local News
NEW YORK — As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, the battle off the field for advertisers to win over 120 million-plus viewers will be just as heated as the rivalry between th...
February 07, 2026 Business
In a move to bridge the gap in rural health care access, Butler County is seeing an expansion of urgent care facilities, with new clinics set to open in several underserv...
February 07, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Township supervisors, during a meeting Thursday, Feb. 5, unanimously passed motions to approve five separate equipment purchases. The first of those was f...
February 07, 2026 Government
BC3’s preschool program could soon be run by an outside agency, the community college said. On Nov. 13, BC3 issued a proposal request for “qualified and experienced” age...
February 07, 2026 Local News
Indiana County-based Marion Center Bank has added Butler-based Dustin Kalkbrenner as a new director of its board. Kalkbrenner has more than 15 years of experience in fina...
February 07, 2026 Business
With the Year of the Horse trotting ever closer, Butler’s Maridon Museum put the “neigh” in neighborhood at its Chinese New Year celebration Friday evening, Feb. 6. Dozen...
February 07, 2026 Local News
Noah Winter brags he's been to way more Super Bowls than Tom Brady. Brady competed in 10 — more than any other player. But Winter will be part of the Super Bowl spect...
February 07, 2026 Business
With temperatures expected to feel as cold as -25 degrees over the weekend, the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has issued an extreme cold warning stretching throu...
February 07, 2026 Local News
The Adams Township Police Department had a hand in helping the Drug Enforcement Administration, state attorney general and police in Allegheny and Armstrong counties appr...
February 07, 2026 Local News
Other News
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln, has di...
February 06, 2026 Pennsylvania News
MILAN — Featuring tributes to da Vinci and Dante, Puccini and Pausini, Armani and Fellini, pasta and vino, and other iconic tastes of Italian culture — plus Mariah Carey ...
February 06, 2026 International News
SAN DIEGO — At least three people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named Death Cap mushroom that is proliferating in Cali...
February 06, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted a...
February 06, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, ...
February 06, 2026 National News
Sonny Jurgensen, the Hall of Fame quarterback whose strong arm, keen wit and affable personality made him one of the most beloved figures in Washington football history, ...
February 06, 2026 National News
PHILADELPHIA — One of the lasting images of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign will be the masks worn by federal immigration agents. The widespread use of...
February 06, 2026 Pennsylvania News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday described the performance of the air force in parts of the country as “unsatisfactory,” and said that st...
February 06, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione spoke out in court Friday against the prospect of back-to-back trials over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling a judge: ...
February 06, 2026 National News
MOSCOW — Russian and U.S. negotiators discussed the expiration of the last remaining nuclear arms pact between the two countries and agreed on the need to quickly launch ...
February 06, 2026 International News
Sports
KARNS CITY — Naomi Venesky’s 1,000th and 1,001st career points were tallied with a touch of irony. The Karns City girls basketball senior sank a jumper from the post with...
February 06, 2026 Sports
Alexis Cashdollar has always made a point to be an example. The Mars senior, who’s ticketed to play at Wake Forest as a preferred walk-on, became the 12th Planets girls b...
February 06, 2026 Sports
Later this month, NFL Films is set to release a documentary detailing Western Pennsylvania’s storied gridiron history. Some Butler County high school football stars were ...
February 06, 2026 Sports
Knoch boys basketball owned the second quarter against host Freeport, outscoring the Yellowjackets 24-8 Friday as the Knights grabbed a share of the WPIAL Section 1-4A ti...
February 06, 2026 Sports
TAMPA, Fla. — At age 84, Tom Henschel continues to have a zest for life. But he’s ending his Super Bowl life at 60. One of three individuals to attend every Super Bowl, t...
February 06, 2026 Sports
Editorial
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, the Butler Eagle had many letters to the editor condemning President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration. I’m one person who stands in agreement ...
February 07, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Poor losing and revenge distress me. Our president’s bullying includes mocking, demeaning, criticizing, lying and then he sometimes seems to retaliate. He has even voiced...
February 07, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Somebody tell me that we are good people. Somebody say that we are good neighbors. Somebody remind me that when a house burns down we help those in their loss. Somebody w...
February 07, 2026 Letters to the Editor
I want to express my thanks to the folks who spoke out at a recent Butler County commissioners meeting in support of our community members who are being targeted by U.S. ...
February 07, 2026 Letters to the Editor
The city of Pittsburgh recently hired a new chief of police. During his interview for the job, he was asked by city council about his intentions regarding cooperation wit...
February 07, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Are we a great country yet? Or will more innocent American citizens have to be sacrificed to achieve President Donald Trump’s twisted version of a “Great America?” His so...
February 07, 2026 Letters to the Editor
February 07, 2026 Cartoons
On Jan. 22, the Butler County Sheriff’s Department partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an enforcement action in Cranberry Township. Butler depu...
February 07, 2026 Letters to the Editor
This month, the world will tune in to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy. We will see some 3,500 athletes represent 93 countries or territories — along wit...
February 07, 2026 Other Voices
It’s not a new diagnosis. Rising costs are not a new issue facing EMS organizations. The symptoms have gradually worsened for years. If emergency medical service provide...
February 07, 2026 Our Opinion
Community
CHERRY TWP — Some classrooms have a class pet. Moniteau Jr./Sr. High School has about 25 of them. And the pets raised by students in Moniteau’s Creepers and Crawlers club...
February 07, 2026 Community
“Taco night” for many across the United States consists of an Americanized idea of Mexican food: ground beef cooked with a packaged seasoning mix, taco shells, lettuce, t...
February 07, 2026 Recipes
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lunch is ...
February 07, 2026 Senior
The Institute for Learning in Retirement is having its Spring Open House on Wednesday, Feb. 11. The open house is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Fowler Building, 165 Elm St. in...
February 07, 2026 Community
Without a doubt, one of the strangest constellations in the Butler winter heavens is Auriga, the charioteer without a chariot, schlepping a mama goat on his shoulder and ...
February 07, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved mother Gladys Gould who passed away February 8, 1995. In our hearts your memory lingers, Sweetly, tender, fond and true, There is not a da...
February 07, 2026 In Memoriams
Eleanor Mangus, of Vandergrift, Pa., will celebrate her 100th birthday on Feb. 7 at a family and friends open house at the porch lounge of Concordia at Cabot. The former...
February 07, 2026 Birthday Tributes
The following area residents have been named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Millersville University Mars: Lauren Kampi Renfrew: Taylor...
February 07, 2026 Deans List
Arts & Entertainment
It’s not often we get to pay tribute, in full, to our giants while they’re still with us. But in “Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!” Judd Apatow dutifully and affectionate...
February 07, 2026 Reviews
“I haven’t eaten in centuries,” says the stooped, wrinkled man knocking at a convent door, seeking food and shelter. LOL! It’s a funny line, given that this is a disguise...
February 07, 2026 Reviews
NEW YORK — Hoda Kotb is filling at the “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie amid the desperate search for the latter’s elderly mother, Nancy, who authorities believe was...
February 06, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — There are stages, and then there is the Super Bowl halftime show. On Sunday, fresh off his historic win at the Grammys for his love letter to Puerto Rico, “De...
February 06, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity, and honor. — Proverbs 21:21 ...
February 07, 2026 Verse of the Day
February 07, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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