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.
When the Butler Area School District community welcomed its baseball team back following its first WPIAL baseball championship win on Wednesday, May 27, it celebrated a t...
NEW YORK — The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded their top executives for bigger profits and higher sto...
A Tennessee man is accused using a shower head to assault a nonverbal child with autism in Concord Township.
Marlin Bailey, 50, of Manchester, Tenn., was charged Wednesd...
A 25-year-old man driving an e-bike died after running into the side of a Butler County Sheriff’s cruiser Tuesday, May 26, in New Castle, according to New Castle police. ...
A Buffalo Township man is accused of tearing down part of his home using an excavator while his wife and two daughters were inside, according to township police.
Erik A....
A Jenkintown man is facing charges related to a rollover crash involving a tractor trailer on Interstate 79 in Worth Township.
Brett M. Kellogg, 53, was charged Tuesday,...
CHICORA — A Parker man accused of firing a gun inside a residence had a felony charge and two misdemeanor charges withdrawn after pleading guilty to a lesser charge at a ...
A Butler man was Tased twice while being arrested following an incident on Memorial Day, May 25, in Butler, according to state police.
Mario James Longo, 35, was charged...
JACKSON TWP — Earlier this month, Seneca Valley School District’s board heard two public comments expressing concerns about the district’s spending trajectory.
At the boa...
MIAMI — The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rod...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Supreme Court has approved a settlement package designed to rein in groundwater pumping along one of North America’s longest rivers and ensur...
BLETCHLEY, England — Artificial intelligence is “an unstoppable force” that is being weaponized in ways that fall just short of traditional warfare, the U.K. cyberspying ...
LONGVIEW, Wash. — A second person who was injured when a large chemical tank ruptured at a Washington state paper mill has died, authorities said Wednesday, bringing the ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. forces carried out new defensive strikes on Wednesday on an Iran military facility after downing Iranian attack drones, according to U.S. officials.
The...
Russian bank staff and branches could be joining the fight against Ukrainian drone attacks under an ambitious plan approved by the country’s lower house of parliament.
T...
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence declined slightly this month as gas prices stayed high and inflation remained elevated, a sharp contrast to soaring stock prices hov...
Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Los Angeles middle school teacher Anna Soffer remembers it well: “The idea was th...
NORTH FRANKLIN TWP, Washington County — Nolan Stefaniak was staring an ugly fifth inning in the face, with the bases around him full.
The senior Butler ace didn’t waver.
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NORTH FRANKLIN TWP, Washington County — Butler had fortune on its side Wednesday, in the form of someone who almost certainly weighed less than the WPIAL Class 6A basebal...
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — Seneca Valley missed its chance at a big inning. Hempfield did not.
That’s the short version of Wednesday’s WPIAL Class 6A softball championship game.
T...
PITTSBURGH — Ian Happ hit a tiebreaking three-run home run and drove in five runs Wednesday night while playing in his hometown as the Chicago Cubs ended their 10-game lo...
The WPIAL baseball tournament concludes with the finals on Memorial Day week.
Same with District 9 and 10.
Check out the latest championship matchups, sites times and wi...
The WPIAL softball playoffs reach the championship round on Memorial Day week.
See the latest WPIAL, District 9 and District 10 tournament brackets, including championshi...
WASHINGTON — Two key senators involved in a long-simmering debate over fixing college sports will introduce a bipartisan bill designed to break a congressional logjam tha...
Even 25 hours before first pitch of its biggest game in recent memory, Butler’s baseball team carried on with a certain measure of mindfulness.
The top-seeded Golden Torn...
Hempfield’s softball team has become accustomed to overwhelming its opponents.
Thirteen of the Spartans’ 20 victories this season have come via the mercy rule. Two no...
An old classic is back in a new way.
Mars Baseball Association introduced a twist on the dormant St. Barnabas Cup, once a yearly rivalry matchup between Mars and Pine...
The City of Butler is working on creating a land bank, but if a similar program in Erie is to be believed, it will probably take a few years before the city’s efforts ad...
In the Rumble in the Jungle, George Foreman came in expecting to end the fight early.
At first, it looked that way. He was stronger, faster and landing clean punches. I w...
LOS ANGELES — Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the “Friends” star’s descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal d...
NEW YORK — Donald E. Newhouse, president of one of the largest family-controlled publishing companies in the nation and a former board chairman of the Associated Press, d...
A community choir — a group that formed under the umbrella of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra — will perform two shows this weekend.
The EchoPoint Chorale debuts at ...
Butler Art Center & Gallery’s spring art show and sale is open through June 5 at the gallery, 344 S. Main St. in Butler.
More than 100 guests attended the show’s opening ...
Tickets are now available for a September music festival in Saxonburg.
The Boots and Grace Butler County Music Festival will feature local songwriters and touring musici...
Butler Township will have an event Saturday, May 30, aimed at area grill lovers.
Guys Who Grill, which features grilled entrees, raises money for the Kids’ Weekend Backpa...
There will be a tea party with Jackie Totin on Thursday, June 4, at the Maridon Museum.
Totin received her first teapot set for her sixth birthday, which sparked her inte...
Thespians know what to expect from a Noël Coward play, even one written when the playwright was only 25 and still refining his famous style. There will be razor-sharp wit...
Whenever I find myself cast in another play, I am always asked the same question:
“How do you memorize all of those lines?”
The truth is, I’ve been doing it for so long, ...
BUFFALO TWP — Helen Comperatore is dedicated to making Corey’s Cruise 2026 — an event that honors her late husband while giving back to first responders — a smashing succ...
Nestled in the woods along Little Buffalo Creek, the Butler Freeport Community Trail spans 21 miles connecting the two municipalities. Open since 1989, the trail gives re...
For five months a year, a small patch of Butler County comes alive with the sound of revving engines and thousands of screaming fans.
That patch is Lernerville Speedway, ...
Birds are returning and flowers are blooming as warmer spring temperatures and rain showers bring wildlife back to the Butler Freeport Community Trail. To one Western Pen...
