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 southbound lane of South Duffy Road near its intersection with Route 68 will close for a few days beginning Monday, Aug. 24.
Dave Meeder, director of public works for...
Parking will be restricted on eight streets in Butler between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, for street cleaning.
The streets affected are Orchard Avenue and St. Pau...
Two people suffered injuries and were transported to area hospitals from a head-on, two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon, Aug. 15, on Whitestown Road in Butler Township, ...
Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California.
States are s...
Chrysler parent Stellantis NV said it's recalling about 848,000 Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles in the United States due to radio software that can prevent rearvie...
Amazon just made it harder for customers to take it to court.
On Friday, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant sent its customers an email informing them the company had upd...
A Penn Township woman who taught at Beaver Falls High School is accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a 16-year-old student.
Sarah Jo Massa, 24, is accused of...
The Butler Farm Show blended family fun and Butler County’s agricultural identity once again this year between Monday, Aug. 10, and Saturday, Aug. 15.
While offering plen...
Cranberry and Jackson township officials have been working for months to determine a more defined boundary between the two municipalities.
The two townships will meet joi...
CRANBERRY — To honor late Cpt. Jimmy Ellis’s passion for firefighting training, the local firefighting community formed the Jimmy Ellis Firefighter Foundation in 2023.
Wh...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean ...
Pennsylvania will not change its immunization guidelines in response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order calling for states to reduce the number of recomme...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Thunderstorms, heavy rain and flash flooding continued to threaten a swath of the U.S. from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic Monday, extending a deadl...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked facilities of Ukraine’s Naftogaz Group 13 times over the past week and has targeted its premises almost 300 times since the start of the y...
(The Center Square) — With a mid-October time frame in mind, law enforcement leaders in Pennsylvania are pondering the fate of an estimated 70,000 “skill games” that the ...
LOS ANGELES — Mark Rydell, the Oscar-nominated director of the sentimental blockbuster “On Golden Pond” who worked with such Hollywood heavyweights as Henry Fonda, Kathar...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A shooting at a Kentucky park on Saturday killed one person and injured four others, police said.
Lexington police officers responded just before 7 p.m. ...
ETTRICK, Va. — Authorities were seeking additional people who fired weapons during a shooting at Virginia State University that left five people wounded, police said Su...
PHOENIX — All eyes were on Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay. The 101-year-old veteran saluted while the national anthem played on Friday, kicking off a day of recogniti...
KABUL, Afghanistan — As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and ...
The Karns City Gremlins kick off the 2026 PIAA football season as defending District 9 Class 2A champions and made the state tournament. With standout dual-threat quarter...
With big seasons come bigger expectations.
The Butler Golden Tornado are about to learn that after a 7-3 campaign that has raised the program’s standard. A return to the...
Freeport got a glimpse of life without Amos Glenn in its WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal playoff matchup with Avonworth in November.
Without the injured 2025 Butler Eagle Sco...
BUTLER TWP — Butler will be thankful by the end of training camp that Nash Cuffman and Deacon Simko are lining up on the same side of the football field on Friday nights....
BUTLER TWP — Danny King knows what it’s like to feverishly wave his arm at the quarterback, believing he was far enough from his defender to make a splash play, only to w...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, Aug. 17
Boys Golf
Noon — A-C Valley/Union, others at Karns City, at Slippery Rock GC
3 — ...
(The Center Square) — Student loan forgiveness may be on the way for young farmers and ranchers across the country.
Republican Pennsylvania U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson,...
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 ...
Eyes across Pennsylvania, and political strategists nationwide, are watching southwestern Butler County.
As voters in the state House’s 12th District head to the polls to...
Parents are all too familiar with the ongoing battle to get their kids to eat a vegetable or two.
This summer, they’ve been fighting it themselves.
Just weeks ago, every ...
Two siblings from Valencia won big at their first go at the Butler Farm Show last week in the poultry competition.
Alexandra “Lexi” Park, 12, won Grand Champion Market Tu...
Local historian Tom Nesbitt will discuss the history of the Revolutionary War Veterans who settled in Butler during a presentation on Wednesday, Aug. 19.
Nesbitt, a histo...
Step into a world where ancient tales meet divine inspiration at Saxonburg’s August Mingle on Main.
“Folklore & Fantasy” will bring together folklore and Christian fantas...
Pieces made by members of the Beaver Art Group will be on display through September at the CAN Art Gallery in the Cranberry Township Municipal Center, 2525 Rochester Road...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to ...
In loving memory of my daughter, Cierra Marie Burrows, who would be 34 years old today.
Time slips by and life goes on, but from our hearts you’re never gone.
We think ab...
In loving memory of our beloved Cierra Marie Burrows whose birthday is August 17.
We cannot send a birthday card,
Your hand we cannot touch,
But God will take our greetin...
Two very different dinosaur movies devoured a modest chunk of the North American box office this weekend, although neither came close to unseating “Spider-Man” from its p...
MILAN— Thieves stole four works attributed to Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina worth millions of euros from the regional museum in the city of Messina in Sicily w...
