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.
Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Friday Oct. 16 charges against 13 individuals in connection with an alleged cocaine-trafficking ring that made hundr...
Allegheny Health Network has appointed Nipun B. Merchant, a surgical oncologist, researcher and healthcare executive, as the chair of the network’s Department of Surgery ...
The Courtyard by Marriott Pittsburgh North/Cranberry Woods, 150 Cranberry Woods Drive, is now under new ownership.
Highline Hospitality Partners, the hospitality investme...
KITTANNING — Dozens of families in Armstrong County got a first look at Providence Classical Academy, a proposed private Christian K-6 school which plans to open its door...
A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge has denied a post-conviction relief petition from a former Middlesex Township man serving a lengthy prison sentence for being con...
State Attorney General Dave Sunday announced a lawsuit Thursday, Oct. 15, against two Western Pennsylvania men, including one from Cranberry Township, following an allege...
JACKSON TWP — A public hearing about Londonderry Ridge, a planned development in the township, will resume at a special township board of supervisors meeting to be held 8...
A Butler man was sentenced Thursday to serve up to two years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old autistic girl in April 2025.
Ivan Cumba,...
Adams Area Fire District’s chief was released from the hospital after spending 28 days there and an additional 14 days in inpatient rehabilitation for an injury sustained...
SOFIA, Bulgaria — A string of drone attacks on at least seven cargo vessels in the Black Sea this month, off the coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria, has some mem...
A Pennsylvania man who fatally shot eight others, including seven family members, before killing himself had exercised strict control over his relatives, including their ...
Three people were killed and 19 injured Thursday in a fiery, mid-day chain reaction crash on a busy street in Calgary that left two transit buses on fire, authorities sai...
Authorities believe at least five people are dead following a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Ore., according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the Pentagon will no longer livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, after the...
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities investigating Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar seized the Democratic lawmaker’s phone and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, in...
ROME — Pope Leo XIV’s lung has recovered well from surgery to remove a cancerous nodule, and he resumed working from the hospital on Thursday, his doctors and the Vatican...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine attacked a Russian oil refinery Thursday, abandoning a brief truce involving energy-related targets that it said Moscow did not heed, as Ukrainian...
PORTLAND, Maine — The Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of a lobster fisherman who alleged the government requiring commercial fishing boats to use electronic t...
Things to watch this weekend in the Atlantic Coast Conference:
Game of the week
Florida State (3-3, 1-2 ACC) at No. 3 Miami (5-0, 3-0), 7 p.m. Saturday (ESPN)
The third-r...
TAMPA, Fla. — Todd Bowles will have to be quite creative to surprise Aaron Rodgers.
Known for his complex defensive schemes and disguising his blitz packages, Bowles and ...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Since 1907, Slippery Rock University and Indiana (Pa.) have been going at it on the football field.
The two teams will clash for the 100th time at 2 ...
David Fleeger, a native of Butler now living in Ohio, recently earned first place overall among 143 amateurs at the 2026 GA Precision LLC Bushnell GAP Grind held in Tenne...
Sophie Hensel’s reason for returning to soccer this season was unique to say the least.
“A friend of mine, Deeliah Thangiah, played goalkeeper last year for the team,” He...
Seneca Valley boys soccer wrapped up its WPIAL Section 3-4A schedule with a 7-0 victory over Butler at NexTier Stadium on Thursday.
Jacob Prex managed a hat trick for the...
Friday night’s matchup between Butler and Karns City football is the first of its kind.
The teams are already giving it some lofty names.
“We’ve titled this the Butler C...
“I haven’t had one minute to think.”
Look who’s back! It’s Brendan Howe, friend of the show, making his debut as a guest this week.
Howe joins “Eye on Sports” to talk abo...
It’s a first-of-its-kind meeting taking center stage this weekend when Butler visits Karns City.
But that’s not the only big game of the week. North Catholic opens the 41...
Here are the Top 10 passers, rushers, receivers and scorers in the Butler County area so far in 2026. Stats are provided by teams directly, via MaxPreps or accumulated vi...
I hope readers of Oct. 9 Butler Eagle appreciate the irony of that publication. While the front-page headline read, “Kicked Out of America, Carrizalez family bids farewel...
Although I didn't vote for Mike Kelly during his first run for Congress based on his stance on abortion and Obamacare, I felt he was an honorable man and would do a good ...
The botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee was absolutely horrifying. The Secretary of Defense (not War) Pete Hegseth has now announced that a military execution ...
Two years ago, Donald Trump was $2 billion poorer, we could eat lettuce and weren’t at war, and gasoline was $3.49 a gallon.
The Trump family has made billions since Janu...
With the November election approaching, we need to take a hard look at the values of the candidates running to represent the 16th Congressional District.
As soldiers, we ...
Thank you for the important article on Oct. 4 (“Newcomer challenges Kelly,” Page A1,) about the candidates for Pa.’s 16th Congressional District.
I read with interest mu...
If I were to detail all of the unconstitutional, illegal, unethical, destructive things that President Donald Trump and his administration have done, the Butler Eagle wou...
Mars Area High School seniors Brian Biaku and Marin Raible were crowned as the school’s 2026 homecoming king and queen during homecoming festivities Oct. 9 and 10.
Other...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week.
Lunch is served at noon. ...
When you gaze at the Butler night sky, especially in the dark countryside, you can see all kinds of “people and creatures” up there.
Right now, there’s a disgraced hunte...
The Lowrie House will host a free talk at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, exploring the history of those who lived in the house, as well as those who are buried in the Old Bu...
Jacob Szul and Leela Hyatt were named the 2026 Tornado prince and princess at Butler High School’s homecoming Friday, Oct. 9.
Jacob is the son of Richard and Kelli Szul, ...
The Friends of Cranberry Public Library will host a book donation drive Oct. 21-24, followed by the library’s fall book sale Oct. 26-31.
Books and DVDs will be accepted d...
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as somebody once wrote, that a Jane Austen novel is a precursor to the modern rom-com.
And so we find ourselves, in a new adaptati...
Since we're going back to the 1990s in “Street Fighter,” let’s use a “Seinfeld” episode to describe how I felt coming out of Kitao Sakurai’s adaptation of the vintage arc...
NEW YORK — It was something most people have likely done at one time or another: complain to others about feeling judged or dismissed during an interaction, maybe even ta...
