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 — Already feeling pinched since the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices pushed past $100 a barrel Thursday amid ren...
A Chicora man is facing charges after police said he stole a vehicle and assaulted the owner when he tried to stop him from taking it.
Alan Connor McDonald, 33, was charg...
The Center for Community Resources announced it has received a $20,000 capacity building grant from the Staunton Farm Foundation to support its Cultivating Compliance Cap...
Descendants of Wash and Martha Cranmer Flemming will celebrate their family reunion Aug. 1.
The family will convene at noon at Alameda Park Shelter 13. Shelter 13 is acr...
One person was taken to a hospital following a motorcycle crash Wednesday night, July 22, in Mercer Township.
It appeared the driver of the motorcycle hit a deer, said Co...
One injury was reported in a crash between a vehicle and a skid loader Thursday morning, July 23, in Middlesex Township, according to Butler County Emergency Services dis...
MARS — The new welcome sign in Mars was unveiled on Wednesday, July 22, at the corner of Grand Avenue and Irvine Street, near Stick City Brewing Company.
The sign is the ...
Butler County commissioners distributed nearly $750,000 from Butler County’s $5.7-million opioid misuse settlement fund to contractors providing recovery services while a...
Beginning Thursday, July 23, or Friday, the Butler County Bureau of Elections will send about 6,000 mail-in and absentee ballots to voters for the Aug. 18 special electio...
NEW YORK — Criticized by a federal judge for sloppy legal work, the government on Thursday grudgingly withdrew subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times re...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he...
WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for jobless benefits tumbled to the lowest level in more than five decades last week as layoffs remain historically low despite global econ...
MADISON, Wis. — The shooting death of a man who police said injured an officer with a knife while resisting arrest has roiled the city of Madison, Wis., with Gov. Tony Ev...
The Ukrainian attacks on the sprawling Russian warehouses produced stark images, with massive pillars of black smoke rising above fires that raged at facilities for Wildb...
CAIRO — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea on Thursday, potentially widening the Iran war as international oil brie...
MANILA, Philippines — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the Trump administration is poised to help end the “senseless war” in Ukraine but acknowledge...
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. — President Donald Trump on Wednesday honored the lives of four U.S. service members who were killed in the Middle East and returned to their f...
WASHINGTON — The House adopted a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities over obje...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Marcus L. Martin felt instant trepidation Sunday when he saw five adults wading thigh- and waist-deep in the Scioto River. A frequent boater on the Ohio ...
Kaeleigh Tuell, a rising junior wrestler at Seneca Valley, went 5-2 in seven matches at the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals, held July 16-18 in Fargo, N.D.
A memb...
Bill Mylan has seen the wrestling mat from a few different vantage points.
The Butler athletic director competed at Beth-Center High School and later coached there an...
Kaeleigh Tuell, an rising junior wrestler at Seneca Valley, went 5-2 in seven matches at the 2026 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals, held July 16-18 in Fargo, N.D.
A mem...
One of the nicest Big Block Modified drivers you'll ever meet at the race track is Butler's Dave Murdick.
After nearly five decades behind the wheel of his familiar No. 6...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week.
Lunch is ...
St. John’s Catholic Church, 668 S. Clearfield Road in Clearfield Township, will host a rummage sale from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, July 31, and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satur...
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Ohio University
Butler: Riley Mayer
Cranberry Township: Elle Al...
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Ohio University
Cranberry Township: Abigail Bittner, Kylie Clark...
Elliott Acres Therapy Riding is holding its annual horse show Saturday, Aug. 1.
The event is a free-to-attend open house where clients and organization volunteers show of...
The 62nd annual Adam Rettig Sr. family reunion will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, at the Rotary Shelter at Butler Memorial Park.
The family said to bring an envelo...
Welcome to part three of my trilogy on stars’ birth, life and death. In last week’s Starwatch column about the life of stars, I told you how stars cook up energy in their...
MIDDLESEX TWP — While the three creators of a podcast about living in Middlesex Township have the capability to reach people around the world, they actually aim their con...
Butler County Symphony Orchestra will take audiences to the movies with an August concert.
The concert is dedicated to the music of films from every era, including classi...
NEW YORK — Chadwick Boseman’s family is accusing the actor’s widow of mismanaging his estate and want her removed as its administrator.
The beloved Oscar nominee was just...
