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.
Sugarcreek Elementary School is close to being completely demolished.
The Karns City Area School District board approved a bid for abatement and razing of the former Sug...
A Butler senior living community has received national recognition.
Newhaven Court at Clearview earned U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best Senior Living status by achievin...
Armco Credit Union based out of Butler is expanding its Butler County footprint toward the southeast portion of the county.
With a target open date set for this fall, Ar...
Route 8 will be losing a staple breakfast joint at the end of the month.
Reichold’s Cafe, 772 Pittsburgh Road in Butler, has announced plans to close its doors at the end...
HARRISVILLE — Borough council is making strides toward revitalizing their parks and recreational areas through repairs and additions.
At a council meeting on Monday April...
A Greenville man died over the weekend when his UTV overturned in Mercer County.
Chad W. Bromley, 42, died at the scene Saturday, April 11, when the UTV rolled over him ...
CLAY TWP — The toy store billing itself as the “world’s coolest” is now at the epicenter of the hottest toy phenomenon of the moment.
On Monday afternoon, April 13, a lin...
KARNS CITY — Architects have presented design proposals for a future high school renovation project to Karns City Area School District’s board, a big step toward long-dis...
ZELIENOPLE — Glade Run Lutheran Services said it is changing the name of St. Stephen’s Lutheran Academy to Glade Run Academy.
According to the organization, the new name ...
VALENCIA — The borough is in the middle of negotiations with St. Barnabas Health System on entering into a public-private partnership agreement — a contractually binding ...
OTTAWA, Kan. — A day after severe storms damaged communities in the Plains and the Midwest, forecasters warned that storms could bring giant hail, tornadoes and severe wi...
NEW YORK — Barely two weeks before it was due to shut down, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said Tuesday it had found a last-minute buyer — a successful nonprofit journalism ...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck a rural part of Nevada east of the state's capital of Carson City on Monday.
The temblor hit just before 6:30 p.m., the U.S. Geological...
ISLAMABAD — The standoff between the United States and Iran deepened Tuesday as the U.S. declared it had blockaded Iran's ports, Tehran threatened to strike targets acros...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Monday on a boat accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.
The cam...
A super typhoon is taking aim at several remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean, lashing Guam with heavy rain and tropical storm-force wind gusts hours before its arriv...
PHILADELPHIA — The bodies of two workers trapped when a stairwell roof collapsed at a parking garage under construction in Philadelphia have been found, authorities annou...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had two bags of McDonald’s delivered to the Oval Office on Monday by a DoorDash driver he tipped $100, using his favorite food and a r...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on Monday over a story o...
It’s not just gas prices: Some U.S. water utilities are reporting the Middle East war is disrupting their ability to maintain recommended fluoride levels in the drinking ...
Slippery Rock football fans can get their first look at the 2026 Rock this spring.
SRU, coming off a 6-4 season and led by head coach Shawn Lutz, will hold its annual...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Ian Ross could’ve walked out of Slippery Rock University’s Critchfield Park hanging his head Monday night.
As could his Moniteau baseball teammates, after...
Nolan Stefaniak and Trent Best combined for a two-hit gem as Butler baseball blanked Hempfield 5-0 to improve to 9-3 (4-2 WPIAL Section 1-6A) this season.
Stefaniak, an M...
PITTSBURGH — Paul Skenes allowed one hit in six strong innings, and Brandon Lowe homered for the third time in two games, driving in five runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates s...
Bob Rottman knew he had something special when Lily Staab joined Moniteau varsity softball as a freshman in 2023.
“She was varsity-ready that year, and that wasn’t just f...
William “Bee” Thoma earned success through the years by “just following people.”
That method led to his decades of excellence in gymnastics, a career which has resulted i...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, April 13
Baseball
3:45 — Mars at Fox Chapel
4 — Freeport at Deer Lakes
4 — Valley at Knoc...
The staff of the Tamarack Wildlife Center in Crawford County deserve praise for their successful efforts to heal an injured bald eagle found last fall near Slippery Rock....
For decades, there’s been a quasi-clandestine accord about expanding oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody wanted to go there — well, except the oil and gas companie...
Firefighters and other first responders saved a life last week on Wednesday, April 8, when they responded to a house fire on Center Avenue in Butler where a teenage girl ...
Pennsylvania has 61,000 jobs that require education beyond high school and not enough qualified workers to fill them. By 2032, the gap will grow to 218,000 jobs that lack...
When the Trump administration launched the war in Iran a month ago, higher oil and energy prices were surely expected, yet there was a positive feeling that the U.S. econ...
Andy Potyka retired from Armco in 1996, but his hard hat was still in use in Butler Township more than 10 years later.
On April 15, 2010, Potyka’s hard hat was in a tree...
The Friends of the Mars Area Public Library will hold its Spring Book Sale from Thursday through Sunday, April 16 to 19.
Shoppers can browse a wide variety of gently used...
Hope’s Road will host a free “Planting Hope” event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 2, at 116 Browns Hill Road, Suite 100, Middlesex Township.
“Planting Hope” is a fr...
Mars Area Elementary School third-grader Quinn Grady is seeking votes in the national “America’s Favorite Student” competition.
To vote for Quinn, visit americasfavstuden...
BUTLER TWP — Last spring, 186 Butler County Community College students transferred a number of credits to a four-year school without a BC3 degree. Another 101 transferred...
In loving memory of my mother, Ethel Edwards, called home to her Lord, April 14, 1988.
I said a prayer for you today to thank the Lord above,
for blessing me with a life...
LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears has entered a substance abuse treatment facility just over a month after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alco...
NEW YORK — More than a thousand movie stars, writers, directors and other Hollywood professionals announced their “unequivocal opposition” to the proposed Paramount merge...
NEW YORK — Sid Krofft, the Canadian-born entertainment wizard who teamed with his brother and fellow puppeteer Marty Krofft to create such cult favorites as children's 19...
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. — Romans 3:23-24
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