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Local News
Crews from Butler, Allegheny and Beaver counties responded to a tractor trailer fire Thursday night, Aug. 6, on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Cranberry Township, according...
August 07, 2026 Local News
At least one person was injured when a vehicle hit a parked car Thursday night, Aug. 6, in Butler, according to Butler County Emergency Services dispatch. The call came ...
August 07, 2026 Local News
Allegheny Health Network has appointed its new chief medical officer for AHN Wexford Hospital. Steven Goodnow will take over the role effective immediately, according to ...
August 07, 2026 Business
Meta said Thursday that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about...
August 07, 2026 Business
A Butler woman was ordered to pay $12,220 in restitution Thursday, Aug. 6, as part of her sentences for breaking into two Butler businesses twice in November 2024 and ste...
August 07, 2026 Crime & Courts
WK Kellogg said Thursday that it will remove artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year. The change comes a year ahead of schedule. Kellogg said last ...
August 07, 2026 Business
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler July 23 — David Kenneth Freehling, 54, of Butler, was charged with one misd...
August 07, 2026 Local News
A Butler man was sentenced Thursday, Aug. 6, in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve five years of probation after pleading guilty to possession of crack cocaine and...
August 07, 2026 Crime & Courts
EVANS CITY — Over the coming months, borough council is aiming to make additions to the borough code that address oversized vehicles, such as recreational vehicles and co...
August 07, 2026 Government
CRANBERRY TWP — At the township’s meeting on Thursday, Aug. 6, the board of supervisors voted 4-0 to approve applications for several residential developments. Board chai...
August 06, 2026 Local News
Other News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted on Thursday dozens of Winter Olympians and Paralympians for a reception honoring their accomplishments in the Milano Cortina ga...
August 06, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home. The former Sena...
August 06, 2026 National News
MELBOURNE, Australia — Two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March have been granted citizenship. Fatemeh Pasandideh and ...
August 06, 2026 International News
CAIRO — More than 10 civilians, including a 4-year-old child, were injured in Saudi Arabia on Thursday after a series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to th...
August 06, 2026 International News
CHICAGO — A deluge of 90,000 rubber ducks poured out of a truck and into the Chicago River on Thursday, then bobbed along a stretch of the skyscraper-lined river in the a...
August 06, 2026 National News
Miss North Carolina USA Brittany Boltinhouse has been stripped of her crown. Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Chairman and CEO Thom Brodeur announced Wednesday that the 27-year...
August 06, 2026 National News
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military famili...
August 06, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee voted along party lines Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on hi...
August 06, 2026 National News
ROME — Italy placed all its major cities under the highest heat alert Thursday as a blistering heat wave gripped Europe, setting a national temperature record in Austria,...
August 06, 2026 International News
Sports
It’s a tricky one this year. Of the Butler Eagle’s 32 Sweet 16 football all-stars on offense and defense last year, only three are back. That kind of turnover means loads...
August 07, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — It’s three weeks until the PIAA high school football season. Butler County teams unofficially kicked off the proceedings Thursday with the third Butler ...
August 06, 2026 Sports
INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA Division II will move to the age-based eligibility model that has prompted athlete lawsuits across the country since it was adopted in Division I. Th...
August 06, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins made a significant investment in their future Thursday, signing forward Ville Koivunen to an eight-year contract worth $4 million ann...
August 06, 2026 Professional
MILWAUKEE — Dustin May won his Milwaukee debut, and Jackson Chourio and Gary Sánchez hit home runs as the Brewers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Thursday afternoon. ...
August 06, 2026 Professional
Butler’s varsity football team hasn’t beaten Seneca Valley on the football field in 7,224 days. That drought will continue for the time being. The Golden Tornado and Raid...
August 06, 2026 Sports
Jane Wymer is enjoying quite a week on the golf course. Wymer, 58, of Penn Township, won her 13th Butler Country Club women’s championship Tuesday. She followed that ...
August 06, 2026 Sports
Auto racing may predominantly be a man's world, but some talented young women are making their mark at Lernerville Speedway. Macey Adamik, a 17-year-old who will be a sen...
August 06, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Community
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 ...
August 06, 2026 Senior
A recent graduate of Seneca Valley Senior High School received a college scholarship related to community service. Luis Torrenegra received $2,000 through the Passavant ...
August 06, 2026 Community
Dare I say the days of summer are starting to wane in Butler. The back-to-school ads are running full-bore on TV, and the meaningless NFL preseason games have begun. One...
August 06, 2026 Community
After a $500,000 donation from Slippery Rock University alumni Joe and Pam Finney, the university will launch a new finance lab in the fall. Students in the Haverlack Col...
August 06, 2026 Community
The following area residents have been named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Kent State University Center Township: Victoria Nebel ...
August 06, 2026 Community
A book’s home might be dictated by its order in the Dewey Decimal System, but materials in the Butler County Federated Library System might spend months or even years awa...
August 06, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Karen Scott who passed away one year ago today, August 7. If tears could build a stairway, And memories were a lane, I would walk right up...
August 07, 2026 In Memoriams
David Brown How can it be 29 years on this day, August 7th that you went to Heaven. I wish we could hear your voice one more time and see your face once more. You weren’t...
August 07, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Sydney Towle, a social media content creator who projected enduring optimism as she chronicled her life with a rare form of cancer, has died, according to her family. She...
August 06, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
“House of the Dragon” creator George R.R. Martin has been struggling with depression. The fantasy writer whose “A Song of Fire and Ice” series inspired HBO’s “Game of Thr...
August 06, 2026 People
Other
August 07, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal. — Psalm 119:160 ...
August 07, 2026 Verse of the Day
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