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.
East Butler approved a bid for future tar and chipping work on roads and alleys in the borough at their April 6 meeting.
Out of three bids, Russell Standard’s bid of $96...
MARS — Borough council announced it has opted for the Rave Alert system from Motorola as its new municipal emergency alert notification system at a council meeting on Mon...
Knoch’s school board announced at a Jan. 14 meeting they would sign off on a teachers contract, calmly resolving a disagreement over health care language. Months later, t...
It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
But the law has spurred a bottleneck for...
Adams Township-based manufacturer Mars Mineral has hired Elliott Woodward, son of president Clayton Woodward, as a new business manager.
He is the third generation of th...
BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District’s board approved the termination of Series 2007 bonds in a Monday, April 6, special meeting and will vote to swap it for another ...
The state Department of Transportation is looking for property owners interested in housing fill dump sites from upcoming shoulder grading and ditch cleaning operations. ...
NEW YORK — Samsung is saying goodbye to its namesake texting app.
According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant’s U.S. support website, Samsung ...
A Butler County man has filed a lawsuit against a woman who he said struck him with her vehicle in August 2024 while he was jogging in Zelienople.
Gregory Price and his w...
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks drifted higher in hesitant trading on Monday, ahead of a deadline that President Donald Trump has set to bomb Iranian power plants.
The S&P 500 ros...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Police Department has placed officers on leave after reports of an April Fools’ Day prank that sent squad cars in pursuit of a baby bein...
Gov. Patrick Morrisey vetoed a handful of bills meant to help vulnerable West Virginians just days after signing a 5% reduction to the personal income tax.
Between the t...
PHILADELPHIA — A 17-month-old was hurt Saturday after crawling under a fence at Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark zoo and sticking his hand into a wolf enclosure. Now, the boy’s...
WASHINGTON — In his news conference on Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to blow up every bridge and power plant in Iran, a declaration so far-reaching that some ...
HAVANA — Two U.S lawmakers called for a permanent solution to Cuba’s crises after witnessing the effects of a U.S. energy blockade during an official visit to the island....
WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a Supreme Court order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal convic...
NEW YORK — There are many ways to win an I Love My Librarian Award.
You might be a fighter against book bans, like Valerie Byrd Fort at the University of South Carolina;...
WASHINGTON — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that an interest rate hike could be appropriate if inflation remains persistently above the central bank’s 2% targ...
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones...
Madison Romanovich is the blueprint of what her teammates and future Slippery Rock girls basketball players aspire to be.
“Starting as a freshman, and kind of develop...
Making history became a theme this season for Knoch boys basketball senior Teegan Finucan.
Shortly after he broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a career, which...
BUTLER TWP — Monday’s meeting with Hempfield required a bit more effort from Butler boys volleyball, but the Golden Tornado remained perfect in non-section games.
Enterin...
PITTSBURGH — Germán Márquez combined with two relievers on a seven-hit shutout for his first win with San Diego, and the Padres ended the Pittsburgh Pirates’ five-game wi...
Nicco Baggetta now holds Butler’s javelin record.
The Golden Tornado junior launched it 197 feet, 6 inches on his third and final throw in victories during a tri-meet aga...
Jence Rhoads expanded her family’s basketball legacy growing up
A 2007 Slippery Rock High School graduate, Rhoads became an all-state basketball player for the Rockets an...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, April 6
Baseball
4 — Wilmington at Slippery Rock (ppd. April 7)
Girls Flag Football
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PITTSBURGH — The NFL draft coming to Pittsburgh later this month is a big deal for the city. The league’s signature offseason event will span three days and is expected t...
Zelienople keeps proving itself to be a tight-knit community of people who will help one another when a fire strikes a business and apartment and also plan holiday festiv...
South Asia has had three youth-led revolts and three changes of government — and still has three countries with problems that haven’t changed a bit.
In February, Banglade...
New and experienced home gardeners can prepare for the growing season by attending an upcoming workshop led by Penn State Extension Master Gardeners.
“Spring into Gardeni...
Experience the North Country Trail at two April events organized by the Butler County chapter of the North Country Trail Association.
There will be a meeting Wednesday, A...
MIDDLESEX TWP — For John Porter, certain work days remind him to tell the people in his life he cares about them before it’s too late.
He has found — in just a year of wo...
Sunday, April 5, marked the holiest day on the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday, as Butler County residents flocked to churches for services.
One of the largest service...
The South Butler Community Library is holding a bingo game fundraiser event at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 11, at Bastin Distillery on North Isabella Street in Saxonburg
For ...
Maddox Grupp, of Cranberry Township Boy Scout Troop 403, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout on March 30, 2026.
For his Eagle Scout project, Maddox worked with Mike Manipol...
Sydney Sweeney starring as real-life boxing legend Christy Martin in the movie “Christy” and “Hacks” launching its fifth and final season on HBO are some of the new telev...
NEW YORK — Yup, she wore something blue.
Zendaya, surprising precisely nobody on the planet, showed up in dazzling blue at Thursday’s New York premiere of “The Drama,...
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. — James 5:16
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