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Local News
PORTERSVILLE — One woman was taken to the hospital for injuries Tuesday morning, Jan. 21, after her vehicle overturned along West Portersville Road. The crash was reporte...
January 21, 2025 Local News
The following Butler County schools are closed for Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025: Alleghney - Clarion Valley School District — Closed Butler Area School District — Closed (Rem...
January 21, 2025 Local News
WASHINGTON — Nothing was going to stop a handful of Butler County Republicans from making it to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration — especially with Butler’s fi...
January 21, 2025 Local News
The Cranberry Men's Chorus is once again offering its popular Singing Valentines. A person can order a Valentine for a special someone, and they will be visited by a qua...
January 21, 2025 Local News
MERCER TWP — The township supervisors announced that both Mercer and Marion townships have signed an inter-municipal agreement with Kozy Rest Campground that will allow t...
January 21, 2025 Government
Jackson Township supervisors moved forward with plans for a new development that will continue to expand residential property in the area. At a meeting on Jan. 13, superv...
January 21, 2025 Local News
Helen Comperatore, the widow of Corey Comperatore, told the Butler Eagle she was deeply honored by the respect given to her husband at President Donald Trump’s inaugurati...
January 21, 2025 Local News
A chill settled across Butler County on Monday, Jan. 20, causing school delays for the upcoming days. The National Weather Service placed a cold weather advisory on Butle...
January 21, 2025 Local News
Applications for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Scholarship Program are open. The program provides four-year scholarships to two high school seniors per year....
January 21, 2025 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Children flocked to play in the snow Saturday after fresh snowfall accumulated overnight. The sledding hill in North Boundary Park served as a perfect spo...
January 21, 2025 Local News
Other News
NEW ORLEANS — A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast left New Orleans and Houston frozen Tuesday, closing highways, grounding nearly all f...
January 21, 2025 National News
JERUSALEM — Israel's top general resigned on Tuesday, taking responsibility for security failures tied to Hamas' surprise attack that triggered the war in Gaza and adding...
January 21, 2025 International News
WASHINGTON — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious co...
January 21, 2025 National News
LOS ANGELES — Winds picked up on Tuesday in Southern California and at least a couple of new wildfires broke out as firefighters remained on alert in extreme fire weather...
January 21, 2025 National News
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's three statewide row officers will be sworn in to new four-terms on Tuesday, joining Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro in Harrisburg and markin...
January 21, 2025 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wasted no time announcing steps to implement many of his campaign pledges, including on immigration, energy, the military and federal ...
January 21, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,500 of his supporters charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including pe...
January 20, 2025 National News
PITTSBURGH — Early in 2023, on the advice of a colleague, Eric Olshan taped a photo to the wall near his desk in the U.S. Attorney’s office. The photo — a collage of the ...
January 20, 2025 National News
PHILADELPHIA — Among the things on Annette Kim’s agenda on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, watching President Donald Trump take the oath of office was not one of them. Instea...
January 20, 2025 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — Fresh off President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate on Monday passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of thef...
January 20, 2025 National News
Sports
Hayleigh Wolski, a seventh grader at Mars Middle School, was participated over the weekend in the 2025 U.S. Youth Soccer Interregional Olympic Development Program Tournam...
January 21, 2025 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Paul Skenes has a lot on his mind. The chances of the perpetually curious National League Rookie of the Year staying with the Pittsburgh Pirates indefinitely...
January 21, 2025 Sports
CRANBERRY TWP — North Catholic girls basketball’s defense did not play a perfect game, but when it mattered most, the Trojanettes answered the call. Over the final 11 min...
January 20, 2025 Sports
Vita Vargo became the eighth player in program history to reach 1,000 points Monday night in Mars girls basketball’s victory over Pine-Richland. Vargo, a senior guard, en...
January 20, 2025 Sports
It seemed only a matter of time before Tessa Szymanski found her way to competing in triathlons. The resident of Prospect and senior at Slippery Rock Area High School is ...
January 20, 2025 Sports
ATLANTA — Instead of crying over another collapse, Ohio State can celebrate another national title after holding off a Notre Dame comeback bid Monday night to walk away w...
January 20, 2025 Sports
Knoch grad Madilyn Boyer scored a season-high 20 points with four 3-pointers in Penn State-Behrend women’s basketball’s 98-47 win Monday against Carlow. The junior guard ...
January 20, 2025 Sports
Butler’s 4x400 girls relay team, 4x400 boys relay team and 4x200 boys relay team all won Saturday at the Youngstown State Invitational. The girls quartet of Adraya Baxter...
January 20, 2025 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, Jan. 20 Boys Basketball 7:30 — Karns City at North Clarion County 7:30 — Keystone at Unio...
January 20, 2025 Sports
Editorial
I know more than a handful of West Side teenagers who can carjack Kia Optimas with a USB cable, but I also know nearly 100 Chicago students who can operate the excavators...
January 21, 2025 Other Voices
January 21, 2025 Cartoons
James “Officer Jim” Green at Broad Street Elementary School has given haircuts to students who needed them, helped a blind student learn to play catch and has fixed bikes...
January 21, 2025 Our Opinion
Community
Kindergarten students know learning is a lot more fun with toys involved, and the Seneca Valley School District is catching on. The district and The Andrew Effect partne...
January 21, 2025 Community
William C. Graham Manor and Lorraine Chapter DeMolay will host a sausage dinner fundraiser benefiting Isaiah 117 House in Butler. The dinner takes place from 3 to 6 p.m. ...
January 21, 2025 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved husband and father, Richard S. Michaels, who passed away 10 years ago, January 21. Sadly missed by, His Family ...
January 21, 2025 In Memoriams
Missing you so very much on your 35th birthday. We love you and we’ll see you again in Heaven. Mom & Dad & the gang ...
January 21, 2025 Birthday Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — A$AP Rocky is at a crossroads. He could soar to new heights of celebrity in 2025, or be brought back to earth quickly by a trial starting Tuesday that could...
January 21, 2025 People
WASHINGTON — The Keke Palmer buddy comedy “One of Them Days” opened in first place on the North American box office charts on a particularly slow Martin Luther King Jr. h...
January 20, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Other
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. — Romans 5:5 ...
January 21, 2025 Verse of the Day
January 21, 2025 Daily Photo Gallery
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