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Local News
Butler City Police Department has announced a number of parking restrictions and road closures through the weekend while Carved in Ice is taking place. Parking at Diamond...
February 20, 2026 Local News
A two-vehicle crash with injuries was reported around 11:20 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20, on South Main Street in Butler. Butler County Emergency Services dispatch said there wa...
February 20, 2026 Local News
One firefighter stayed in the hospital overnight as a precaution after crews battled a fire in the basement of a ranch-style brick home Thursday, Feb. 19, in Buffalo Town...
February 20, 2026 Local News
For decades, EMS agencies could survive year-to-year by subsisting on insurance reimbursements and billing patients. Those days have passed, due to both stagnant insuranc...
February 20, 2026 Local News
Emlenton Fire Department reported just after 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, that water is beginning to rise onto a borough street due to ice jams in Allegheny River. The Emlento...
February 20, 2026 Local News
Butler County Commissioner Kevin Boozel announced Thursday, Feb.19, he is running for a second four-year term on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee. The committe...
February 20, 2026 Government
JACKSON TWP — During a meeting Thursday, Feb. 19, supervisors approved the formation of an oversight committee for Harmony EMS through the Southwestern Butler Council of ...
February 20, 2026 Local News
A video, recently shared with the Butler Eagle, claims Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a person around 8 a.m. Jan. 21 at a Cranberry Township underpass near ...
February 20, 2026 Local News
A man is being charged with sexual assault after police say he assaulted a woman for over three decades. Louis Tomei, 84, of Zelienople, was charged Thursday, Feb. 19, wi...
February 20, 2026 Crime & Courts
JEFFERSON TWP — The message at HIS Kids Christian School’s first responders lunch was while firefighters, paramedics and police face constant danger, they are still anoth...
February 20, 2026 Local News
Other News
LONDON — Police continued on Friday to search the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for the best part of 11 hours...
February 20, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — The late Rev. Jesse Jackson will not lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda after a request for the commemoration was denied by the House Speaker ...
February 20, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a stinging loss on an issue crucial to his economic...
February 20, 2026 National News
TALLINN, Estonia — Even now, safely in her new home of Estonia, Inna Vnukova says she can’t purge the terrifying memory of living under Russian occupation in eastern Ukra...
February 20, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remain at historically low levels. The number of Americans filing for jobless aid for t...
February 20, 2026 National News
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday declared four men who were wrongfully accused of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders innocent, formally clearing their names in ...
February 19, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit slipped modestly in 2025, a year in which President Donald Trump upended global commerce by slapping double digit tariffs on imports f...
February 19, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief pac...
February 19, 2026 National News
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sitting in the stands at a hockey game, Michael Black heard what he thought was popping balloons before quickly realizing it was gunfire. As dozens of ...
February 19, 2026 National News
LONDON — The former Prince Andrew was arrested and held for hours by British police Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his links to Jeffrey E...
February 19, 2026 International News
Sports
MILAN — Sidney Crosby is not playing for Canada against Finland in the semifinals at the Olympics on Friday because of injury. Crosby appeared to injure his right knee ...
February 20, 2026 Professional
SLIPPERY ROCK — Jence Rhoads has spent much of her life following in her mother’s footsteps. The 2007 Slippery Rock High School graduate put together a stellar basketball...
February 20, 2026 Sports
The Butler County Community College men’s basketball team will battle for conference and regional titles this weekend during a dual-championship tournament in BC3’s Field...
February 20, 2026 Sports
The WPIAL, District 9 and District 10 playoffs continue this week, with five Butler County teams still alive. The most recent addition is Slippery Rock, the D10, Region 4...
February 19, 2026 Sports
Beaver was no match for North Catholic in Thursday’s WPIAL Class 4A girls basketball quarterfinal playoff at Pine-Richland High School. The No. 3 Trojanettes crushed the ...
February 19, 2026 Sports
JACKSON TWP — 1.8 seconds left. Down by one. Andrew Omasits at the free throw line. No problem. The Seneca Valley senior guard caught nothing but net on both free throws,...
February 19, 2026 Sports
We are inching closer to a Knoch-North Catholic rubber match. The Knights cruised through last week’s WPIAL Class 4A playoff opener, and both teams are the presumptive fa...
February 19, 2026 Sports
MILAN — Megan Keller backhanded in a shot 4:07 into overtime and the United States won its third Olympic gold medal in women's hockey, beating Canada 2-1 at the Milan Cor...
February 19, 2026 Sports
Special Olympics and unified bocce athletes around Butler County recently celebrated various achievements at the end of their seasons. At Knoch, ninth-grader Mason Kriber...
February 19, 2026 Sports
Seneca Valley girls basketball head coach Dorothea Epps was named the Class 6A Section 1 Co-Coach of the Year this week when the Big 56 all-section teams were released. E...
February 19, 2026 Sports
Editorial
February 19, 2026 Cartoons
In 1988, the power brokers of the Democratic Party watched a Chicago civil rights leader, a maverick with a movement he called a “Rainbow Coalition,” start to threaten th...
February 19, 2026 Other Voices
It’s a truism those experiencing the Industrial Revolution would have recognized immediately: The world is increasingly wider than our own backyard. The march of progress...
February 19, 2026 Our Opinion
Community
Docents pick out their favorite pieces
February 19, 2026 Community
Play bingo for a chance to win plant prizes — like starters and gardening goodies — on April 19. Glade Run Lutheran Services is hosting “Plant Bingo” to celebrate Earth D...
February 19, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our son, brother and uncle Jeff Germanoski. February 20, 1992 I come into an empty house, But feel I’m not alone. I know that you are with me, Your pr...
February 20, 2026 In Memoriams
Birthday wishes for our son Patrick D. Pennington In the stillness of each day, we think of you often. We miss your laughter, your warmth and the joy you brought into our...
February 20, 2026 In Memoriams
In loving memory of our beloved Carole A. Oresick who passed away one year ago today, February 20th. Deep in the earth lies a picture Of a loved one laid to rest. In memo...
February 20, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Oscars are reuniting last year's acting winners for next month's ceremony. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that best...
February 19, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
The day after our country’s sesquicentennial, Evans City will host the “A Voice For Liberty” 250th anniversary musical event on Sunday, July 5, at the Evans City Cemetery...
February 19, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
The Slippery Rock University Honors Flute Ensemble will have its final performance this weekend. The ensemble, which is made up of honors students in the flute program at...
February 19, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Steve Cicero — a former history teacher in Butler Area School District, who is now known as the History Hobo — will lead “Highway to History,” a presentation on Perry Hig...
February 19, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
Other
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complet...
February 20, 2026 Verse of the Day
February 19, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
February 19, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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