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Local News
The dismissal of charges against a former Knoch School District teacher accused of assaulting a student was reversed Thursday, May 28. Carly Ann Miller, 36, of Allison Pa...
May 28, 2026 Crime & Courts
A Bridgeville man is accused of stealing more than $1,000 in trading cards and related merchandise from Target in Cranberry Township. Andre Lee Maretsky, 26, was charged...
May 28, 2026 Local News
A Pittsburgh woman who has reportedly stolen more than $12,000 in merchandise from Ulta Beauty since 2021 is accused of stealing from the company’s Cranberry Township loc...
May 28, 2026 Local News
Scott Timko, the Republican candidate who won the May 19 primary for the 12th District House race in Pennsylvania, was nominated by the Butler County Republican Committee...
May 28, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania State Police investigated 843 crashes resulting in 129 injuries and five fatalities over the Memorial Day weekend from May 22 to 25. Intoxicated driving was...
May 28, 2026 Crime & Courts
A former podiatrist was sentenced Wednesday to serve a one- to two-year term on house arrest and six years of probation for assaulting patients and overprescribing opioid...
May 28, 2026 Local News
An Evans City man is accused of threatening a caseworker with a knife and holding her captive in his home on Tuesday, May 26. Justin Michael Eppinger, 33, allegedly wave...
May 28, 2026 Local News
A GoFundMe for two people killed in a Memorial Day house fire in Forward Township has raised more than $10,000 in its first 24 hours. The GoFundMe identified sisters Chri...
May 28, 2026 Local News
Orchard Hill Church Butler, 120 Walker Ave., is partnering with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to distribute food Saturday, May 30. People attending the dist...
May 28, 2026 Local News
PennDOT announced a detour for a section of Prospect Road in Connoquenessing Township for the replacement of a larger drainage pipe under the road. From June 8 to 18, the...
May 28, 2026 Local News
Other News
Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion whose ferocious, hard-hitting style of play angered opponents and sometimes overshadowed his prodigious skills and ab...
May 28, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — A roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term was supposed to be an easy lift for Republi...
May 28, 2026 National News
Ohio, one of the nation’s data center destination hot spots, is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive ...
May 28, 2026 National News
A federal judge has declined to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order creating a federal voter list and limiting mail voting, clearing the way for potential sweep...
May 28, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that he's being “very persistent” in pressing the United States to provide his country with more Pa...
May 28, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military on Thursday accused Iran of violating a fragile ceasefire after Kuwait reported coming under attack following an American ...
May 28, 2026 International News
Sports
The search for Slippery Rock University’s first women’s flag football coach did not have to look too far, it turned out. Lisa Horton, who has spent the last three sea...
May 28, 2026 College
The Butler Eagle will be running a list all golf season of local golfers who make holes-in-one throughout Butler County. The first was reported April 11 at Slippery Rock...
May 28, 2026 Sports
Jacob Begenwald faced a dilemma Friday night: race or attend graduation. The 18-year-old 410 Sprint car driver from Sarver decided to do both. It wasn’t just another race...
May 28, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Community
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will bring its “iScream” truck to the Butler Area Public Library, offering free vegan ice cream starting at 11:30 a.m. on Frid...
May 28, 2026 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 ...
May 28, 2026 Senior
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Belmont University Freeport: Anna Kruse, Maxwell Kruse Grove Ci...
May 28, 2026 Community
June stargazing is definitely a late show, with true darkness not setting in over Butler until after 10 p.m. Mercifully, the best celestial show this month happens durin...
May 28, 2026 Community
Saint Vincent College announced that Makenna Maier, a senior mathematics education major from Butler, won the 2026 Kathleen Durkin Bendel Memorial Scholarship. The $1,00...
May 28, 2026 Community
The season has felt close to perfect for the Slippery Rock University women’s lacrosse team, which finished the season with a 20-1 record. Players and coaches say the suc...
May 28, 2026 Community
Announcements
Greta Schmidt received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from West Virginia University. She graduated Summa cum laude, made WVU Honors College and was in the Sigma ...
May 28, 2026 Graduates
Arts & Entertainment
WASHINGTON — Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., are...
May 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria — An Austrian court on Thursday convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. The state court in ...
May 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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