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.
Earlier this week, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Alumni Association Board of Directors added three new members, including Cranberry Township native Dana Seguin.
Se...
A new coffee shop is scheduled to come to Butler Township.
Scooter’s Coffee, a drive-thru-only coffeehouse chain that sells coffee, smoothies, sodas, milkshakes, pastries...
The Slippery Rock Area Parks and Recreation department has announced the cancellation of its fall foliage color run, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 17.
In a social media p...
BUFFALO TWP — Following the example of numerous other municipalities in Butler County, Buffalo Township is preparing an amendment to its zoning ordinance to address how i...
CRANBERRY TWP — Butler County, Pennsylvania state and township officials gathered at the Cranberry Township Municipal Center on Wednesday, Oct. 14, to discuss the ongoing...
BUFFALO TWP — For the second meeting in a row, Freeport Area School District’s school board meeting had an audience dressed almost entirely in red.
The matching red shirt...
The number of measles cases is growing statewide.
While no cases had been reported in Butler County, confirmed cases have started popping up in several surrounding munic...
PENN TWP — Scott Longdon has been named Penn Township Police Department’s new chief.
At the meeting Tuesday night, Oct. 13, the board of supervisors officially approved t...
This Election Day, residents of Mars Borough and Adams Township will vote on a question that could — quite literally — remake the map of Butler County: whether the two mu...
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...
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...
Here are the latest standings involving Butler County-area teams, as well as full schedules for the week. All games at 7 p.m. Friday unless otherwise noted:
Independent
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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...
