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 multivehicle crash around 10 p.m. Friday night on Route 422 west led to an emergency response, with a man taken by MedEvac helicopter to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital for ...
Slightly fewer people were denied access when attempting to purchase a firearm in quarter three of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025, according to state police. ...
Ongoing upgrades to Harmony’s Spring Street and the potential need for a data center ordinance were discussed at the borough’s Tuesday, Oct. 6, meeting, according to Greg...
OAKLAND TWP — Oakland Township is looking to join the many municipalities in Butler County and across Pennsylvania with an ordinance addressing the growing public issue o...
Federal officials have released texts and drone images from Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a camp...
CRANBERRY TWP — Acts of mass violence or public safety concerns make headlines frequently.
Butler County has seen its share of cases — from the recent arrest of a county...
Bundle Up Butler had a line around the Butler City Farmers’ Market when it began handing out coats and winter gear at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9, according to volunteers with...
This year’s Zelienople Fall Festival brought together the community for an evening of activities Friday.
The event will continue from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday and fr...
WASHINGTON — The federal officers who shot a man driving with his young son in New York believed they were in danger because the Dominican national crashed his car into t...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for his media company, will succeed Karoline Leavitt as White House pre...
HEBRON, Ky. — Vice President JD Vance cast doubt Friday on whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with...
NEW YORK — A federal immigration officer shot a Dominican man in the neck as he drove in a car with a 5-year-old boy Thursday afternoon, officials said. The Department of...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian strikes killed three people and wounded at least eight across Ukraine, officials said Friday, as Ukraine struggles to counter escalating Russian ...
GULF BREEZE, Fla. — Hurricane Isaias crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast as a dangerous Category 2 storm on Friday, lashing communities with wind and rain and threatening to...
The Butler Eagle’s photo team was four PIAA football games Friday night: Baldwin at Butler, Burrell at Knoch, Blackhawk at Mars and Sharon at Slippery Rock.
From big hits...
ADAMS TWP — A late break gave Mars hope it would not lose a game it once led by 17 points.
Visiting Blackhawk, up 30-24 late in the fourth quarter, was attempting to run ...
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch’s homecoming night was spoiled Friday night by Burrell.
The Bucs handed the Knights a 14-7 loss, which marked the fourth in a row for Knoch and deal...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Sharon football jumped out to a 27-point lead before half, and the Rockets could not rebound, falling 35-0 at their own Troy-Alan Stadium on Friday ni...
Weston Cook flicked the ball out to the left on a swing pass to running back Liam Allison, who took it 14 yards to the house, and Moniteau football won a dramatic 7-6 gam...
Butler returns home looking to snap a losing streak, while Karns City, Moniteau and several other teams are looking for much-needed wins to get back on track or make a pu...
BUTLER TWP — Three snaps, three impact plays — and Butler ran away.
The game wasn’t over 38 seconds in. It just felt that way as Butler football turned a quick 14-0 lead ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kent Johnson scored the only goal in a shootout to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets over the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 Friday night.
Evgeni Malkin and Bryan ...
North Catholic shot a 408 Thursday in the WPIAL Class 2A team semifinal held at Hickory Heights Golf Club, placing second among 10 teams to qualify for the final Tuesday ...
Things to watch this weekend in the Atlantic Coast Conference:
Game of the week
Wake Forest (4-1, 2-1 ACC) at N.C. State (3-2, 1-1), noon Saturday (The CW)
The Demon Deac...
There is a proposal before the Forward Township supervisors to build a massive data center in their district. The proposal is to build the center on farmland along the Co...
The Butler County Democratic Committee calls on state Rep. Aaron Bernstine to resign immediately following reports of a slur-filled public outburst.
Homophobia has no pla...
On July 12, my daughter was in a horrific automobile accident on Freeport Road, Marshall Township in Allegheny County. She was critically injured, entrapped in the vehicl...
There are many ways to view the Carrizalez family’s story.
Some will see it as a straightforward immigration case. Others will see it as a complicated legal matter involv...
A municipal meeting in Forward Township looked much different in October 2025 than it did in October 2026.
Last year, the rooms were quiet, near empty; but now, people a...
Before working on their first public art project, the fifth-graders at Center Township Elementary School learned the difference between painting on a horizontal surface v...
Megan McCarthy and Michael Grimm, of Pittsburgh, were united in marriage Sept. 26, at the bride’s parents’ home in Penn Township. Joseph Grimm Jr., brother of the groom, ...
In loving memory of my beloved sister, Gladys Smolen
May 26, 1929 - October 11, 2015
Memories that mean the most,
Live forever in our hearts,
Never more than a thought aw...
With precious memories of my husband,
John A. Lestyk,
who was born into Eternal Life 25 years ago today.
My dear Mouse,
We shared so many special times, in 25 short years...
In memory of
Ben Rihel
March 15, 1985 - October 10, 1995
Leaving 31 years ago, we wonder what your life would be.
Our lives go on but it is certainly not how we would hav...
In the era of gentle parenting, even the word discipline can feel like a third-rail topic. It’s certainly foreboding when it’s first mentioned in Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord...
It is unfortunate for “The Social Reckoning” that “The Social Network” exists.
The latter is a modern masterpiece. The former was kind of always doomed to exist in its s...
It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. — Deuteronomy 13:4
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