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.
NEW YORK — The COVID-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the unc...
A Butler man is accused of pushing a security guard’s head into a wall multiple times at Butler Memorial Hospital.
Cory T. Eichert, 36, was charged Sunday, March 15, by B...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in and around Cranberry Township continue to result in individuals being detained, and occasionally, such incidents ar...
A Butler man is accused of sending a photo of his genitalia to a teenage girl.
Dakota Lee Anthony, 25, was charged Tuesday, March 17, by Butler police with one felony co...
A Butler man has been charged with a felony count of endangering the welfare of children after a woman reported finding multiple abrasions on her 1-year-old daughter’s ne...
A Cranberry Township man is accused of assaulting correctional officers in Butler County Prison after his arrest for the alleged assault of a couple, police said.
Derek ...
The Butler County Prison Board on Tuesday voted to request proposals for inmate phone, video and other communication services due to a federal rule going into effect in a...
Mars Borough is asking that all customers of its municipal water system conserve as much water as possible until a leak in the system is repaired.
According to Mayor Gre...
CRANBERRY TWP — A documentary director and a former Holocaust denier are traveling America to teach the public about the horrors of the event and how to cure hate in thei...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel killed another top Iranian official — the intelligence minister — in its campaign against the Islamic Republic’s leadership, and repo...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania regulators asked an administrative law judge on Wednesday to make a gas utility pay $2.6 million in civil penalties for a chocolate factory expl...
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s lawyers asked a judge on Wednesday to postpone his federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson until early next year a...
NEW YORK — The Iran war has rattled the global flow of oil, with steeper fuel costs already straining households worldwide. And in the U.S., drivers are now facing the hi...
WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration national security officials, in back-to-back congressional hearings starting Wednesday, are expected to be pressed on the war with I...
WASHINGTON — U.S. companies will be allowed to do business with Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas company after the Treasury Department eased sanctions, with some limit...
TOKYO — Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during h...
ATLANTA — Travel disruptions continued Tuesday in the U.S. as airlines worked to recover from a powerful storm system that had already snarled flight schedules a day earl...
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed Tuesday to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey E...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jurors in Akron began deliberating Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their alleged roles in a sweepin...
Venezuela stunned the United States in Tuesday’s World Baseball Classic championship game, winning 3-2 despite a dramatic game-tying home run from Team USA’s Bryce Harper...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Sidney Crosby is back.
The Pittsburgh Penguins captain will return to the lineup Wednesday night against Carolina after missing nearly a month with a low...
Terry Bradshaw has still not sent a wig to Terry Hanratty.
Bradshaw, the Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, used to wear wigs when he started losing his hair 4...
For the second year in a row, it’s North Catholic’s boys and girls teams left standing from Butler County in the PIAA basketball tournaments.
The Trojans and Trojanettes ...
Butler boys volleyball is off to a 2-0 start after sweeping Mars 3-0 Tuesday at Mars.
The Golden Tornado won each set 25-10, 25-18, 25-11. Andrew Slaugenhaup had 11 kills...
CRANBERRY TWP — Tough to argue with the numbers.
Early on, Peters Township didn’t present much of a quarrel.
For a good portion of Tuesday night’s PIHL Class 3A Penguins ...
Highlights and updates from the past few weeks:
Butler grad Rock named All-Region indoor track athlete
Butler graduate and Westminster College freshman Aubrey Rock was li...
The 2026 Penguins Cup playoffs begin Feb. 23, starting with Class A.
Butler takes on North Catholic in a battle of Butler County teams in a play-in game Tuesday, Feb. 24....
The PIAA’s newest sport has officially kicked off — well, there aren’t kickoffs in it but the point stands.
With the inaugural girls flag football season upon us, here ar...
Pennsylvania high school girls flag football is taking another step forward this spring.
The season officially began Friday. This is the first year the sport is officiall...
While the season isn’t officially here, springlike weather is already upon us. That means fluctuating temperatures, varying precipitation and the high winds that go with ...
If you’re a sports fan, you likely watched coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina. But did you watch the Paralympics when hundreds of athletes competed in...
The Butler County Board of Commissioners should be applauded for making it possible for the Butler County Hazardous Response Team 100 to respond to large-scale hazardous ...
The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas. What the American spy agency has in mind is far more prosaic:...
A cast of 60 children and adults will take the stage for Sing Hosanna!’s production of “The Little Mermaid,” showing at Butler County Community College at the end of Marc...
The BETA Quartet, composed of Eftihia Arkoudis, Meg Brennen, Tatiana Cassetta and Cassandra Eisenreich, released an album in March that uses music as a vehicle for conver...
In March, 2008, Michael Cichra, 13, of Butler Township, became the first Elite Athletic Center gymnast to win a state championship.
The Knoch Middle School seventh-grader...
Elliott Acres Therapy Riding is having volunteer orientation on Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. until noon at 168 Headland Road in Summit Township.
The organization will...
Portersville Christian School will host a “Let Your Light Shine” Legacy Gala on Saturday, March 21, at the Butler Country Club.
The event honors alumni who have let their...
In loving memory of our beloved Paige Nicole Organ who passed away 13 years ago today.
Time ends all, but love and memories last forever.
Missed by,
Grand Pap, Mom, Dad a...
Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet committed a major faux-pas last week when he said he was glad he wasn’t part of dying art forms like opera or ballet because “nobo...
Butler Little Theatre’s new production of Theresa Rebeck’s “Downstairs” leans hard into the duality of the play’s title: the action unfolds in a literal basement and an e...
Seneca Valley Senior High Student Council is hosting its 12th annual Raiderthon — an evening of fundraising and community spirit supporting the Miracle League of Southwes...
Comedians Adam Minnick and Tracie Jayne will perform at the North Country Taproom for a fundraiser supporting the Slippery Rock Community Library.
Laughs for the Library ...
LONDON — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97.
Deighton’s literary agent, Tim ...
NEW YORK — Books on homelessness, the U.S. Census and ancient India are among this year’s winners of prizes handed out by the J. Anthony Lukas Project, named for the lat...
Verah Vucelich, 3, kicked away from the side of the pool, a small foam backpack strapped to her chest, as her instructor encouraged her from a few feet away.
In adjacent ...
