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 New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a...
Herman Road in Summit Township faced flooding after heavy rainfall Friday, Aug. 7, including one incident that prompted the dispatch of Butler County Water Rescue Team 30...
Crews from Butler, Allegheny and Beaver counties responded to a tractor trailer fire Thursday night, Aug. 6, on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Cranberry Township, according...
At least one person was injured when a vehicle hit a parked car Thursday night, Aug. 6, in Butler, according to Butler County Emergency Services dispatch.
The call came ...
Allegheny Health Network has appointed its new chief medical officer for AHN Wexford Hospital.
Steven Goodnow will take over the role effective immediately, according to ...
Meta said Thursday that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about...
A Butler woman was ordered to pay $12,220 in restitution Thursday, Aug. 6, as part of her sentences for breaking into two Butler businesses twice in November 2024 and ste...
WK Kellogg said Thursday that it will remove artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year.
The change comes a year ahead of schedule. Kellogg said last ...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
July 23 — David Kenneth Freehling, 54, of Butler, was charged with one misd...
A Butler man was sentenced Thursday, Aug. 6, in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve five years of probation after pleading guilty to possession of crack cocaine and...
The Senate on Friday confirmed Cameron Hamilton as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, returning the former Navy SEAL to the embattled agency he led temporar...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency's policy gives it broad control over what footage ...
Iranian lawmakers are debating the wording of a proposed deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, with U.S. President Donald Trump insisting an agreement is getting closer...
NONTHABURI, Thailand — A student opened fire at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20, according to authorities,...
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of its $400 million ballroom at the White House without congressional...
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he will back Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche to be confirmed to lea...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hosted on Thursday dozens of Winter Olympians and Paralympians for a reception honoring their accomplishments in the Milano Cortina ga...
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home.
The former Sena...
MELBOURNE, Australia — Two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March have been granted citizenship.
Fatemeh Pasandideh and ...
CAIRO — More than 10 civilians, including a 4-year-old child, were injured in Saudi Arabia on Thursday after a series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to th...
It’s a tricky one this year.
Of the Butler Eagle’s 32 Sweet 16 football all-stars on offense and defense last year, only three are back. That kind of turnover means loads...
BUTLER TWP — It’s three weeks until the PIAA high school football season.
Butler County teams unofficially kicked off the proceedings Thursday with the third Butler ...
INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA Division II will move to the age-based eligibility model that has prompted athlete lawsuits across the country since it was adopted in Division I.
Th...
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins made a significant investment in their future Thursday, signing forward Ville Koivunen to an eight-year contract worth $4 million ann...
MILWAUKEE — Dustin May won his Milwaukee debut, and Jackson Chourio and Gary Sánchez hit home runs as the Brewers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Thursday afternoon.
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Butler’s varsity football team hasn’t beaten Seneca Valley on the football field in 7,224 days. That drought will continue for the time being.
The Golden Tornado and Raid...
Jane Wymer is enjoying quite a week on the golf course.
Wymer, 58, of Penn Township, won her 13th Butler Country Club women’s championship Tuesday. She followed that ...
Auto racing may predominantly be a man's world, but some talented young women are making their mark at Lernerville Speedway.
Macey Adamik, a 17-year-old who will be a sen...
Since its beginnings in the late 1940s in Meridian, supporting the future of agriculture in Butler County has been at the heart of the Butler Farm Show’s mission.
While t...
For generations, farming has been built on hard work, determination and a willingness to adapt.
While the image of a farmer driving a tractor through a field remains fam...
The Butler YMCA will give away backpacks filled with school supplies Wednesday, Aug. 20.
The annual Back-to-School Backpack & School Supply Giveaway takes place from 2 to...
A clothing sale will be held Monday, Aug. 17 on East North Street in Butler.
Butler Global Methodist Church, 200 E. North St. Butler, will have its Second Grace Clothing ...
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 ...
A recent graduate of Seneca Valley Senior High School received a college scholarship related to community service.
Luis Torrenegra received $2,000 through the Passavant ...
Dare I say the days of summer are starting to wane in Butler. The back-to-school ads are running full-bore on TV, and the meaningless NFL preseason games have begun.
One...
After a $500,000 donation from Slippery Rock University alumni Joe and Pam Finney, the university will launch a new finance lab in the fall. Students in the Haverlack Col...
The following area residents have been named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Kent State University
Center Township: Victoria Nebel
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A book’s home might be dictated by its order in the Dewey Decimal System, but materials in the Butler County Federated Library System might spend months or even years awa...
In loving memory of our beloved Karen Scott who passed away one year ago today, August 7.
If tears could build a stairway,
And memories were a lane,
I would walk right up...
David Brown
How can it be 29 years on this day, August 7th that you went to Heaven. I wish we could hear your voice one more time and see your face once more. You weren’t...
“Tony,” the Anthony Bourdain biopic, is a coming-of-age tale for a modern culinary giant. Set over just a summer, it's also clearly an appetizer. And like all first cours...
“The Purge” for sex is the best way to describe the premise of “One Night Only” unless you prefer Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” for one-night stands.
As the movie anno...
Sydney Towle, a social media content creator who projected enduring optimism as she chronicled her life with a rare form of cancer, has died, according to her family. She...
“House of the Dragon” creator George R.R. Martin has been struggling with depression.
The fantasy writer whose “A Song of Fire and Ice” series inspired HBO’s “Game of Thr...