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.
CRANBERRY TWP — The legitimacy of skill games was at the center of a lengthy dialogue at the township supervisors’ Thursday, Aug. 27, agenda preparation meeting.
Supervis...
ADAMS TWP — A.J. Myers & Sons, the transportation company that serves Mars and Butler area school districts, as well as others throughout the region, announced it is bein...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Even after a proposed 287(g) agreement between the borough’s police department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was voted down by council, res...
Butler County Family YMCA has announced it intends to close its third childcare location at the HIS Kids Christian School building in Jefferson Township and consolidate i...
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday made an appearance at Walmart in the township on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to celebrate the second anniversary of his of...
Slippery Rock Area School District administrators will temporarily oversee operations at Moraine Elementary after its principal voluntarily transferred to a newly created...
A Butler Township man was sentenced Tuesday, Sept. 1, in U.S. District Court to four years in prison followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty t...
Despite some delays, work toward the demolition of 123 S. Main St. in Butler is still ongoing, city officials clarified at a Monday, Aug. 31 meeting.
City Mayor Bob Dando...
Parking will be restricted on eight streets in Butler between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, for street cleaning.
The roads affected are Beckert and Madison avenue...
West Nile virus was found in mosquitoes collected from Butler, according to the Mercer County Conservation District.
This is the ninth sample to test positive for the vir...
PROVO, Utah — The murder case against the Utah man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year is headed for trial, and the defendant could face...
WASHINGTON — Oil giant Chevron is planning to expand its operations in Venezuela, a U.S. official said Tuesday, just days after President Donald Trump announced an ambiti...
WASHINGTON — The House passed a short-term measure Tuesday to fund the federal government into early December, a move designed to avoid a chaotic shutdown as lawmakers ca...
Water issues at Rolling Valley Estates mobile home park in Connoquenessing Township have drawn the attention of a state legislator.
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-8th, cal...
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania police officer who fatally shot a 22-year-old college student, who had ended up at the wrong house late at night and was waiting for frie...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday and Tehran fired missiles at American sites in Jordan in response as hostilities flare once again in an inte...
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Tropical Storm Edouard unleashed heavy rain and strong winds on southeastern Texas Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands, toppling trees and flood...
Iran's president said Tuesday his country is ready to return to the ceasefire deal reached with the United States in June if Washington does the same, in conciliatory rem...
The last play of the 2025 regular season determined the winner of the AFC North.
Then Baltimore and Pittsburgh — the two teams playing in that game — soon entered new er...
JEFFERSON TWP — Freeport’s girls volleyball team had a few aces up its sleeve Tuesday night.
The Yellowjackets had plenty, actually.
“That’s what won us the match,” Freep...
ADAMS TWP — Mars boys soccer’s rookie head coach Joe Haefner has yet to pick up his first win, but he also has yet to experience a loss.
Thanks to the new PIAA rule that ...
Spencer Valasek scored a pair of goals and dished out three assists to lead Freeport to a 9-0 blowout win Tuesday night over Leechburg.
The road victory is the Yellowjack...
PITTSBURGH — Brandon Lowe scored from third when San Francisco third baseman Oseilvis Basabe short-hopped a throw to first with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning...
PITTSBURGH — Joey Porter Jr.'s balky back felt good enough to return to practice Tuesday for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
At the moment, his health appears to be the least of...
Sustaining success to the level achieved by North Catholic girls basketball requires young players to not only buy into the culture upheld by veteran coach Molly Rottmann...
STARKVILLE, Miss. — When Brandon Fusco went from playing Division II football right to the NFL, he took a giant leap.
Now he’s taking another one.
The Seneca Valley High ...
Susan Hetz would spread a purple yoga mat onto her wooden porch every morning in 2009, where sunlight drenched brightly colored prayer flags and several ceramic sun plaqu...
In loving memory of William P. Benzinger Jr.
September 4, 1942 to September 1, 2018
It has been 8 years since you stepped into Eternity. We know you are with Jesus becaus...
NEW YORK — Dolly Parton is not done yet. The estate behind the icon, who died of cancer last week at age 80, has announced Dollyfest, a two-day festival to be held in Nas...
Evoking the same do-it-yourself pop-rock feminism of her '90s musical influences, Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show that activa...
Antique barns and wide-open green space accommodate the increasingly popular rustic theme many future spouses seek. Butler County venues host plenty of them each year.
“M...
Big church weddings with fancy receptions in the once-popular month of June are quickly becoming a thing of the past with couples starting their futures together.
Some c...
