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.
A Butler woman was charged with breaking into a Center Township home and stealing a phone earlier this month, according to charges filed by state police.
Gloria J. Mastr...
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler City
Feb. 26 — Tanya M. Thomas, 44, of Butler, was charged with misde...
The CEO of United Airlines says that a slew of recent incidents ranging from a piece of aluminum skin falling off a plane to another jet losing a wheel on takeoff will ca...
A preliminary hearing for William “Bill” Halle was continued Monday, March 18, to allow him more time to find an attorney to represent him on refiled charges of sexual as...
MARS -- At a meeting Monday evening, March 18, borough council approved preliminary engineering services for two projects which are part of efforts to comply with federal...
As the start of trout season nears, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is working to stock Butler County’s waterways.
On Monday morning, a group including Dave An...
LANCASTER TWP — The last thing alternative energy should create is unnecessary waste, and on Monday, March 18 township supervisors adopted an ordinance to eliminate waste...
Peoples Gas made a request to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission that would increase residential customer bills by up to 21.4% to help fund a project that would r...
BUTLER TWP — Commissioners approved a request Monday, March 18, for a Scout to build four to five bat boxes on Sawmill Run Road, which will allow him to obtain the rank o...
NEW YORK — Fabric and crafts retailer Joann has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as consumers continue to cut back on discretionary spending and some pandemic-...
UNITED NATIONS — The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, t...
SYDNEY — Tropical Cyclone Megan has made landfall along the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory bringing wind gusts of up to 124 mph, heavy rain and storm surges in t...
President Vladimir Putin extended his reign over Russia in a landslide election whose outcome was never in doubt, declaring his determination Monday to advance deeper int...
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man won't be retried in a 2011 shooting that injured four people, including a 6-year-old girl, and sent him to prison for more than a decade...
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year bu...
CLEVELAND — An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation was sentenced Mond...
GRINDAVIK, Iceland — Lava from a volcanic eruption in Iceland flowed Sunday toward defenses around the town of Grindavik, which have so far held the molten rock back from...
PHILADELPHIA — A badly decomposed body of a child was found inside a duffel bag by crews who were cleaning a site Monday in west Philadelphia, police said.
The body was f...
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House speaker said Monday that qualified residents should be able to register to vote at polling places on the day of elections, and that ea...
WASHINGTON — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93...
Keith Dambrot's first NCAA tournament appearance as the head coach at Duquesne will also be his last. The 65-year-old Dambrot is retiring whenever the Dukes' run in March...
PHILADELPHIA — After two middling seasons in Pittsburgh, Kenny Pickett was ready to leave the Steelers behind — as well as most of the reasons why he wanted out, rather t...
CHICAGO — The St. Louis Cardinals signed Sonny Gray, Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson. The Chicago Cubs added Shota Imanaga and Héctor Neris. Even the Cincinnati Reds and Pitts...
The Detroit Lions and Pro Bowl guard Kevin Zeitler have agreed to a one-year contract, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Monday.
The per...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hollywood Brown had so many conversations with the Kansas City Chiefs before the 2019 draft that the former Oklahoma star thought that they would selec...
Bocci places 10th at D-II national meet
CLARION — Butler graduate David Bocci placed 10th in the 200 butterfly at the NCAA Division II National Championships recentl...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have agreed to a deal with quarterback Joshua Dobbs to give the team another option at backup behind Brock Purdy.
Dobb...
In a political stampede Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would force the social media app TikTok to be divested from China-based owner ByteDance,...
Is there such a thing as too many community centers?
Are there ever too many options for places to hold a wedding, a meeting, a fundraiser?
A historic building in a histo...
here is little debate that there is a deadly and worsening shortage in primary care, and that primary care is a cost-effective and evidence-based model of health care th...
In loving memory of Cody Rodgers, March 19.
Happy 33rd Birthday, Cody.
There will be 33 roses this year at your grave, for the 33 years you’ve been an angel and didn’t co...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — James Burton, John Anderson and Toby Keith on Monday became the newest members to join the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The Country Music Association a...
North West, 10, now seems to be all grown up, having given what’s believed to be her first-ever on-camera interview after announcing her debut album.
The preteen — best k...
And we, who with unveiled faces all [contemplate and] reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the L...