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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
CRANBERRY TWP — Another coffee chain might be headed toward Cranberry Township in the near future, and it isn’t Dunkin’ or Starbucks. The township’s planning advisory com...
March 31, 2026 Local News
Seneca Valley School District is partnering with an artificial intelligence startup to pilot a new food waste reduction initiative that will help better prepare students’...
March 31, 2026 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — The next phase of the Glade Run Development project is now cleared to begin after borough council gave final approval Monday evening, March 30. Phase 5A of t...
March 31, 2026 Local News
Cranberry and Jackson townships, Harmony, Zelienople involved
March 31, 2026 Local News
The attorney defending former Butler Area School board member William Halle against charges alleging he had a sexual relationship in 2023 with a 17-year-old girl who work...
March 31, 2026 Local News
A Butler woman is charged with tampering with evidence after she removed a dead man’s cellphone from a crime scene in Westmoreland County. Cheryl Anne Warner, 35, was ch...
March 30, 2026 Local News
Stella and Irvin — the bald eagle pair who call a nest at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works’ Irvin plant home — welcomed their first eaglet of the year Sunday, March 29. USS9...
March 30, 2026 Local News
A Lyndora man was charged last week with administering drugs that resulted in a woman’s death in 2025, Butler police said. Matthew Richard Tolley, 40, is facing the charg...
March 30, 2026 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, said he was pleased to be able to return $1.2 million in taxpayer dollars to the community Monday, March 30, to help Harmony Fi...
March 30, 2026 Local News
A fire broke out from apartment units above the Zelienople businesses Stylin’ with Sherri and Flowers by M.E. at about 4 p.m. Monday evening, March 30. Fire Chief Rob Ree...
March 30, 2026 Local News
Other News
There will be no Charlie Kirk highway in his home state of Arizona. The reason: politics. Exactly whose politics is to blame has become a point of debate. Kirk, the co...
March 30, 2026 National News
DETROIT — An armed man who crashed his pickup truck into a major Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was inspired by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and had ...
March 30, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against...
March 30, 2026 International News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA began the countdown Monday for humanity’s first launch to the moon in 53 years. The 32-story Space Launch System rocket is poised to blast off...
March 30, 2026 National News
ROME — Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy, police said Mo...
March 30, 2026 International News
HAVANA — Cuba prepared Monday to receive a sanctioned Russian tanker carrying roughly 730,000 barrels of oil, the first such fuel delivery this year to the island that ha...
March 30, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential public health threat to millions of A...
March 30, 2026 National News
BULVERDE, Texas — A 15-year-old student shot a teacher at a Texas high school and then fatally shot himself, authorities said Monday. No other injuries were reported in t...
March 30, 2026 National News
Frustrating security lines dwindled at U.S. airports Monday, clearing the worst bottlenecks as Transportation Safety Administration officers began receiving backpay for w...
March 30, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran's energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potential...
March 30, 2026 International News
Sports
Arizona, Michigan and Duke had looked like a clear top tier in college basketball as conference play began. All three spent time atop the AP Top 25 and went on to claim a...
March 31, 2026 College
Boden Lenyk, Trent Best, Nolan Stefaniak, Jacob Szbalskie and Ryan Rattigan all had multi-hit efforts for Butler baseball, which needed only five frames to dispatch WPIAL...
March 30, 2026 Sports
CINCINNATI — Chase Burns allowed one hit in five innings for his first major league win, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 2-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monda...
March 30, 2026 Professional
NEW YORK — Anthony Mantha had two goals and an assist, Rickard Rakell scored twice and the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied to defeat the New York Islanders 8-3 Monday night i...
March 30, 2026 Professional
BUTLER TWP — Butler’s boys track and field team showed off its depth Monday — even during a live event. The Golden Tornado won a critical WPIAL Section 1-3A dual-meet ove...
March 30, 2026 Sports
NEWTON, Iowa — Two-time NCAA champion Mitchell Mesenbrink of Penn State has been named winner of the Dan Hodge Trophy as the nation's top men's college wrestler. WIN Maga...
March 30, 2026 College
Quite literally, Aria Harcar is ahead of her time. The sixth-grader from Butler compete at the Adidas Indoor Track Middle School National Championships, held in Virginia ...
March 30, 2026 Sports
Kelly Coffield enjoyed the best of both worlds — twice. The 1995 Knoch graduate excelled in volleyball and track and field with the Knights and was named team MVP in both...
March 30, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, March 30 Baseball 3:30 — North Hills at Butler 3:45 — Seneca Valley at Pittsburgh Central...
March 30, 2026 Sports
Easton Bazzoli, a 2013 Seneca Valley graduate and current head coach of Gannon University men’s basketball, has guided the Golden Knights to the NCAA Division II national...
March 30, 2026 Sports
Editorial
March 30, 2026 Cartoons
Every Wednesday, many students and staff alike don shirts at Mars Primary Center and Mars Area Elementary School reminding everyone to be the kind one first. The #betheki...
March 30, 2026 Our Opinion
As midterm elections approach in November, voters have one thing on their minds: Life is too expensive. Democrats are wise to campaign on “affordability.” Unfortunately, ...
March 30, 2026 Other Voices
Community
The Butler Bike Blessing 2026 is scheduled for Saturday, May 9, at the American Legion Post 778 in Butler Township. The event is an opportunity to connect with the motorc...
March 30, 2026 Community
The Rotary Club of Slippery Rock is sponsoring a blood drive Wednesday, April 1, at the Slippery Rock Township Municipal Building. The drive will run from noon through 5:...
March 30, 2026 Community
Mt. Chestnut Presbyterian Church will hold its annual Community Easter egg hunt at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 4, at 727 W. Old Route 422 in Franklin Township. Guests are inv...
March 30, 2026 Community
Butler County Community College will host a community blood drive Thursday, April 2, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building l...
March 30, 2026 Community
The Intermediate League of Butler will meet Monday, April 13, at Christ Community Methodist Church, 205 N. Duffy Road, Butler Township. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m...
March 30, 2026 Community
CRANBERRY TWP — Parents and minors at the Reality Tour drug prevention education event at Hope Lutheran Church in Cranberry Township were startled when a uniformed police...
March 30, 2026 Community
Concordia’s Good Samaritan Hospice mission will host a free grief workshop for adults from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 18. The workshop, titled “Blooming Beyond Be...
March 30, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of SherylAnn Geibel. Happy Heavenly Birthday. We miss your hugs, your voice, your faith, and the way you always made everything okay. Thinking of you tod...
March 31, 2026 Birthday Tributes
In loving memory of our beloved mother, Bertha L. McMaster, who passed away 52 years ago today. In our hearts your memory lingers, Sweetly, tender, fond and true, There i...
March 31, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Britney Spears is back on Instagram weeks after being arrested for DUI in California. The “Oops! I Did it Again” singer posted images showing her goofing around with her...
March 31, 2026 People
NEW YORK — Mary Beth Hurt, a Tony Award-nominated actor who starred on Broadway in “Benefactors” with Glenn Close and reunited with Close for the movie “The World Accordi...
March 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
March 31, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
If someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. — Galatians 6:1 ...
March 31, 2026 Verse of the Day
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