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.
Children, older adults and those with respiratory conditions should avoid heavy outdoor activity Tuesday, July 14, due to ozone buildups harming the air quality, accordin...
A Lyndora woman is accused of brandishing a knife during a fight in Butler.
Kathryn Lucille Lane, 35, was charged Wednesday, July 8, with felony aggravated assault and m...
An Indiana woman accused of throwing a knife at another woman pleaded guilty to summary disorderly conduct at a Monday, July 13, preliminary hearing.
Mya Jean Hubbard, 2...
JEFFERSON TWP — The township is expected to receive additional financial backing for the ongoing renovation of SEBCO Pool, in the form of a $125,000 contribution from Con...
BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District is taking a proactive approach to cellphone usage in the district’s schools.
The district’s board voted unanimously Monday evenin...
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday.
Dairy Champions
Supreme Champion Cow, Camp-Run Farms, Fombell
Reserve Supreme Champi...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is urging the state House of Representatives to pass sentencing and parole rules for people convicted of second-degree murder be...
Leading Slippery Rock Area High School this year will be a team effort.
Slippery Rock Area School Distric has named Jesse Pattison and Shawn Zappia as the high school’s c...
ADAMS TWP — The township’s board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a 180-day moratorium on six types of businesses during its Monday, July 13, meeting.
The busi...
LANCASTER TWP — Township supervisors took two steps toward regulating data centers at their Monday, July 13 workshop meeting.
The supervisors first approved a plan to ha...
Former Butler County resident Mark Pelusi has spent years trying to obtain official documents to solve a century-old family mystery, but bureaucratic red tape is preventi...
CAIRO — The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they launched missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport on Monday in response to airstrikes the...
Another week of blistering heat will bring even more health risks in the coming days, as overnight temperatures won't provide much relief.
The National Weather Service i...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death...
PHILADELPHIA — Residents in some Philadelphia neighborhoods and surrounding counties were cleaning up Sunday from widespread damage caused by a line of severe, short thun...
PARIS — Ukraine and nine other countries announced Monday they were forming a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles, utilizing Kyiv’s experience in fighting...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans returned to Washington on Monday with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chair...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States and Iran each asserted Monday they controlled the Strait of Hormuz after a weekend of attacks across the Middle East, furt...
Hunter Swidzinski already had a long list of golf accomplishments before the summer began.
After his PIAA championship in 2023, the Butler graduate earned several awards,...
Even on vacation at a Florida beach, Gavin Gorajewski finds a volleyball.
So it’s no surprise the rising Seneca Valley junior, a boys volleyball outside hitter and All-WP...
St. Louis Cardinals second baseman JJ Wetherholt has $20 million in escalators based on MVP voting and All-Star selection as part of his $112.5 million, eight-year contra...
While flag football has gained a strong foothold in Western Pa., it is not yet up to par with other areas of the country.
Josh and Kaitlyn Federkeil, of Meridian, are aim...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, July 13
Summer Baseball
7 — Butler Iron Bucks at Beaver County Cardinals
Wednesday, J...
Steeples & Stacks is a landmark event for the Butler Cultural District, an initiative that started in 2022 to focus arts and culture in one area of the city.
The event t...
The Social Security Trust Fund will run out of money by late 2032, according to the annual report the program issued last month. The specific date is new — last year’s re...
The end of the inaugural Steeples & Stacks Heritage Weekend was only the beginning of an art installation which should last for years to come.
Over the two days of Steepl...
When Butler writer Niki Lott published her children’s book, “The Princess and the Tea,” in November, she shared a project that began nearly 20 years earlier as personaliz...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sam Neill, the smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose prolific career moved from art films to blockbusters as he dodged velociraptors in “Ju...
God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and und...
