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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
A Butler County judge is considering the county’s appeal of a state Office of Open Records determination ordering the county to release inmates names to a faith-based Mer...
August 06, 2026 Crime & Courts
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School District is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to help with repairs in and around the intermediate elementary school. K...
August 06, 2026 Local News
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — With the open comment period for a proposed $9.15 million Act 537 sewer plan set to end Saturday, residents are down to their last days to give feed...
August 06, 2026 Local News
MIDDLESEX TWP — After months of searching, the board of supervisors chose its successor to Jeffrey Winkle as township manager — former New Castle mayor and city administr...
August 06, 2026 Local News
For four months, residents of the 12th State House District have not had representation in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. An Aug. 18 special election will fi...
August 06, 2026 Local News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler July 22 — Sammantha Layne Boucher, 39, of Saxonburg, was charged with misde...
August 06, 2026 Police Reports
Dukes considers former Rep. Scialabba’s seat ‘flippable’
August 06, 2026 Local News
LAS VEGAS — Airline passengers know to expect possible flight delays when weather forecasts call for thunderstorms, heavy snow or strong wind. The omens are less obvious ...
August 06, 2026 Business
CHICAGO — Video game giant Electronic Arts officially has new owners. The California-based maker of popular titles like “Battlefield” and “The Sims” announced Tuesday th...
August 06, 2026 Business
Traffic along Main Street in the city of Butler was slow moving Thursday morning, Aug. 6, following overnight road work. After closing Main Street and portions of side r...
August 05, 2026 Local News
Other News
SPOKANE, Wash. — Firefighters have taken advantage of cooler weather to begin getting a handle on wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of people around Washing...
August 05, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — A federal judge decried efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as he reluctantly dismissed the seditious conspiracy case a...
August 05, 2026 National News
CAIRO — Iran said Wednesday it is in the “final stage” of drafting an agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. President Donald Trump has said a deal could...
August 05, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian attacks on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded dozens, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, as Ukraine’s deplete...
August 05, 2026 International News
GUATEMALA CITY — Authorities in Guatemala have ordered evacuations in some southern communities around the Fuego volcano, which is erupting. Claudinne Ogaldes, executive ...
August 05, 2026 International News
Sports
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
VERONA — 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 ...
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
The Pittsburgh Pirates released struggling veteran designated hitter Marcell Ozuna on Wednesday as they gear up for a playoff push. The club made the move following a nig...
August 05, 2026 Professional
Dan Robinson isn’t sure anyone shares with him the feat he recently achieved. The Mars resident, formerly a Chrysler National Long Drive Champion and now a golf coach, ha...
August 05, 2026 Sports
Editorial
August 05, 2026 Cartoons
A nearly-90-year-old herald of the Atomic Age is on its way to Butler County. While there is no solid timeline for the move yet, the world’s first Van de Graaff generator...
August 05, 2026 Our Opinion
I recently joined the board of my Manhattan co-op and I love it. One of my duties is reviewing applications for apartments, which — as both a prospective neighbor and a r...
August 05, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Announcements
In memory of Kris McMaster Kriess. On August 6, 2023, the Lord took you home. Here, we miss you. Love you always, Dad and Families ...
August 06, 2026 In Memoriams
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
Friendship Presbyterian Church’s Second Saturday Concert will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at the church’s community center, 866 New Castle Road, Slippery Rock....
August 05, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Zelienople will come to life with music, lively conversation and dancing as the Shindig Charity Music Festival returns to Zelienople Community Park. The festival, which w...
August 05, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Zelienople is hosting its first Creative Crawl from Friday to Sunday, Aug. 7 to 9. A collaboration between four of the borough’s art studios, it offers time to relax and...
August 05, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Tents will line Saint Ferdinand Parish’s parking lot in Cranberry Township again as Divine Grace Parish hosts its annual family festival Friday to Sunday, Aug. 7 to 9. Th...
August 05, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Wow, Butler. You are sure keeping busy this summer! I’ve been thoroughly impressed with the community-led events this year — the ones that benefit a certain cause, and ev...
August 05, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Other
The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. — Psalm 119:130 ...
August 06, 2026 Verse of the Day
The Butler Farm Show office is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday. All gates open at 8:30 a.m. DAILY ADMISS...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
Live music is a staple at the Butler Farm Show. This year, several bands return to the stage for the first time in years, while two bands return from last year. All of t...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
Almost every morning before school, Nolan, Dylan and their mother, Misty, Thurber head down the lane of their Fenelton family farm and, before they hit Route 422, they tu...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
One of the most exciting events at the Butler Farm Show is the annual cheese auction, which takes place Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m. The cheese auction is not only spec...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
In 1947, a plowing contest was held on the Jack Roe property in Meridian. This was the birth of an idea to get the city folk, business owners and farmers together to bett...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
Every morning at 3 a.m., while most of Butler County is still sleeping, Jeff Ansell begins the first of two daily milkings with his father-in-law, Lou Boyle, and a farmha...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
As this week’s opening of the annual Butler Farm Show approaches, here’s a look back at scenes from recent years at the event. ...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
1952 — Walter Henricks, Butler R.D. 1 1953 — Walter Henricks, Butler R.D. 1 1954 — H. Francis Kennedy, Butler R.D. 6 1955 — Claude Brown, Butler R.D. 1 1956 — Walter Henr...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
A wide variety of musical acts, playing in genres from bluegrass to gospel to classic rock, will take the stage at the Armstrong Pavilion to entertain Butler Farm Show vi...
August 05, 2026 Special Sections
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