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Local News
NEW YORK — Another climb for oil prices shook stock markets on Friday, as hopes collapsed for a possible cut to interest rates this year by the Federal Reserve. The S&P ...
March 20, 2026 Business
Residents can find items dating back centuries, collectibles, vintage furniture, beautiful art displays and more at the annual antique show Saturday, March 21. Dealers h...
March 20, 2026 Local News
PIKETON, Ohio — The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply on the site of a d...
March 20, 2026 Business
One person was taken to a hospital Thursday night, March 19, after a vehicle crashed into an electric pole and a house on Chicora Road in Summit Township. The call came ...
March 20, 2026 Local News
The Prospect-Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Department announced on Wednesday, March 18, it will soon add a brand-new fire engine to its fleet. The engine, a Pierce Sab...
March 20, 2026 Local News
Slippery Rock’s community members and visitors alike will get the opportunity to step into the history of the American Revolution through an 18-wheeled mobile museum. The...
March 20, 2026 Local News
Butler County Community College trustees approved a four-year contract with the union representing BC3’s administrative assistants Wednesday, March 18, three and a half m...
March 20, 2026 Local News
A Fairview Township man is facing 23 criminal charges after police say he was found with drugs and weapons, including firearms and explosives. Barry L. Steele Sr., 65, wa...
March 20, 2026 Local News
Adams Township and Mars Borough are jointly holding a second public hearing on their proposal for a municipal merger at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, at Twelve Oaks Mansion o...
March 20, 2026 Local News
Recognizing a need in the area, Early Learning Connections has secured a Butler location for its Head Start classes with the purchase of a property at the end of last yea...
March 20, 2026 Business
Other News
HONOLULU — Muddy floodwaters from severe rains inundated streets, pushed homes off their foundations, swallowed vehicles and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of r...
March 20, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The dangerous heat wave shattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip. It’s the latest next-level weath...
March 20, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East, Iran threatened Friday to expand its retaliatory attacks to include recreational and ...
March 20, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a new lawsuit Friday against Harvard University, saying its leadership failed to address antisemitism on campus, creating ground...
March 20, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — CBS News said Friday it is shutting down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation as part of a round of layoffs, blaming a shift in r...
March 20, 2026 National News
BARCELONA, Spain — James “Jimmy” Gracey, a college student from Illinois who was found dead after going missing while in Barcelona on a break, was likely the victim of an...
March 20, 2026 International News
Chuck Norris, the martial arts grandmaster and action star whose roles in “Walker, Texas Ranger” and other television shows and movies made him an iconic tough guy — spar...
March 20, 2026 National News
With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new...
March 20, 2026 International News
Sports
Kyle Casteel and Blake Scott combined to shut out Shaler on three hits in Butler’s 10-0, five-inning baseball victory at Pullman Park on Friday. Casteel pitched the first...
March 20, 2026 Sports
DURHAM, N.C. — Taliah Scott scored 15 points, and Baylor rallied from a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter, making 11 of 14 free throws down the stretch, to beat Ne...
March 20, 2026 College
The big number is two — that would be Class 3A state championships in a row — for Seneca Valley’s boys hockey team. After repeating in the PIHL Class 3A Penguins Cup, coa...
March 20, 2026 Sports
Fresh off his second consecutive bronze and fourth career medal at the PIAA Individual Wrestling Championships, Butler’s Santino Sloboda will wrestle again in a high scho...
March 20, 2026 Sports
Editorial
In the Facebook comment section of a Butler Eagle article written about “how to overcome hate,” numerous keyboard warriors pushed our newsroom to make an unprecedented de...
March 20, 2026 Our Opinion
March 20, 2026 Cartoons
It’s about more than ideology. It’s about identity. In a 2025 interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Tony McAleer shared how identity can maintain the chai...
March 20, 2026 Our Opinion
Community
Really fresh fish is a special treat, and it takes only a few minutes to turn it into an elegant meal. For this quick dinner, I broil the fish for just five minutes, then...
March 20, 2026 Recipes
Similar to exercises like running and weightlifting, it can take practice and consistency to get good at meditation and to fully understand and feel its benefits on the m...
March 20, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
A jury sided with the rapper known as Afroman on Wednesday in a civil defamation suit brought against him by seven Adams County Sheriff’s deputies who alleged they were h...
March 20, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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