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Hotel Saxonburg set for sheriff’s sale
SAXONBURG — The 193-year-old Hotel Saxonburg, which closed earlier this year, may find a new owner by way of a sheriff’s sale scheduled for November. The news ...
PA high school football 2025: Butler County team previews, top players and fall sports breakdowns
It wasn’t exactly hot this week during heat acclimatization, but the sounds of pads, panting and whistles filled the air around Butler County. Those sounds port...
Knoch football 2025 preview: What to watch, 3 things to know and schedule
JEFFERSON TWP — There wasn’t much of a secret why Knoch football finished with a 3-6 record last season. The opponent scored at least 42 points in all six of th...
Slippery Rock school board to appeal reinstatement of former principal
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — The Slippery Rock Area School Board took official action Monday, Aug. 11, to appeal a July order from the state’s acting secretary of educat...
Hotel Saxonburg set for sheriff’s sale
Hotel Saxonburg set fo...
New drug, ‘flysky,’ spotted in Butler County, results in nonfatal overdose
New drug, ‘flysky,’ sp...
PA high school football 2025: Butler County team previews, top players and fall ...
PA high school footbal...
Knoch football 2025 preview: What to watch, 3 things to know and schedule
Knoch football 2025 pr...
Slippery Rock school board to appeal reinstatement of former principal
Slippery Rock school b...
Top Headlines
ADAMS TWP — Members of the Mars Area School Board voted unanimously to continue working out the details of a partial roof repair during a workshop meeting on Tuesday, Aug...
August 13, 2025 Local News
Finding workers an ongoing issue for some While many regions have watched their industrial base erode, Butler County has bucked the trend, establishing itself as a manufa...
August 13, 2025 Local News
Tom Donaldson, an independent candidate for mayor of Butler, had his nomination petition for the upcoming Nov. 4 election thrown out by a Common Pleas Court judge. Judge ...
August 12, 2025 Local News
Forty years after Cherrie Mahan’s mysterious disappearance in Winfield Township, a private investigator from Iowa says he is coming closer to uncovering what happened to ...
August 13, 2025 Local News
Half-mill EMS tax suggested
August 13, 2025 Government
News
A former Slippery Rock Area School District elementary principal, who is in a legal battle to get her job back, filed a civil suit alleging defamation and other accusatio...
August 12, 2025 Crime & Courts
UPDATE: The teen has been located. Cranberry Township police are asking for the public’s help to find 18-year-old Matthew Kaczmarek, who was last seen early Monday morni...
August 12, 2025 Local News
Butler has announced eight street cleanings that will restrict parking from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13. The city streets to be cleaned Wednesday are South Cliff,...
August 12, 2025 Local News
Cranberry Township officials are asking residents and businesses to voluntarily reduce water usage. Despite the fact the township is not under a drought emergency declara...
August 12, 2025 Local News
A Butler man is accused of stealing cigarettes from behind the counter of a business and throwing them at customers, according to police. Sean Michael Stettmier, 55, was...
August 12, 2025 Local News
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Community
Tuesday night, Aug. 12, marked the first day of competitions at the 65th annual North Wash...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Being in a musical at Pittsburgh CLO throughout July was a full-circle moment for two Butl...
August 12, 2025
The North America Beauty Pageant this year added a category expanding its age of eligibili...
August 11, 2025
The Knoch High School Class of 1975 is having its 50-year reunion on Saturday, Aug. 23, at...
August 11, 2025
A speaker from HAVIN: Helping All Victims In Need, will talk about self-esteem with childr...
August 11, 2025
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Sports
Head coach Eric Kasperowicz and Mars football have reached back-to-back WPIAL Class 4A sem...
 
There’s a football stereotype about the players wearing the blocky jersey numbers. “People...
August 13, 2025
Mike Grey, on Slippery Rock Golf Club’s 138-yard No. 14 hole, using an 8-iron. It was his ...
August 13, 2025
Seneca Valley boys golf won a WPIAL section-opening thriller Tuesday, beating Butler 182-1...
August 12, 2025
Consistent runs to the playoffs require a constant influx of players capable of thriving i...
August 12, 2025
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Editorial
With the exception of Israel, no foreign entity elicits as much bipartisan support in Washington as Taiwan. The self-ruled democratic island is David ...
August 13, 2025 Other Voices
August 13, 2025 Cartoons
New data shows a rise in colon cancer among adults ages 45-49. That’s wonderful news. Celebrating an increase in cancer rates might seem counterintuit...
August 12, 2025 Other Voices
August 12, 2025 Cartoons
Yesterday’s Butler Eagle reported the Butler County Federated Library System has been forced to limit use of popular digital borrowing system Hoopla. ...
August 12, 2025 Our Opinion
Business
NEW YORK — Just five months after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Spirit Airlines is warning about its future ability to stay in busin...
August 12, 2025 Business
WASHINGTON — U.S. inflation was unchanged in July as rising prices for some imported goods were balanced by falling gas and grocery prices, leaving ov...
August 12, 2025 National News
Collectors from Butler County and beyond can get ready to dust off those shoe boxes and trade with fanatics just like themselves. Sports card, Pokemon...
August 12, 2025 Business
NEW YORK — AOL’s dial-up internet is finally taking its last bow. Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today’s digital standards, dial-up is still around....
August 11, 2025 Business
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more aff...
August 11, 2025 National News
Weekend Entertainment
Glade Run Lutheran Services is hosting its sixth annual Family Food Truck Festival at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 9, at its campus on Glade Run Drive in Zelienople. In addi...
August 07, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” Swift announced the album on her website shortly after...
August 12, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What's Happening!!” has died at 60. Spencer, who b...
August 12, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Dean Cain, the actor best known for portraying Superman on a 1990s television show, wants to join the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In an interview...
August 12, 2025 People
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest was held at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2025. ...
August 11, 2025 National News
LOS ANGELES — It’s August, and horror and humor came to play. In a month that’s long been known to let edgier movies thrive, Zach Cregger’s highly anticipated horror fi...
August 11, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
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Special Sections
The following are first place winners from the Butler Farm Show. Vegetables Green Snap Beans, Josie Hughes, Cabot Yellow Snap Beans, Gavin Musko, Butler Yellow Snap ...
August 13, 2025 Special Sections
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
August 12, 2025 Special Sections
The following are first place winners from the Butler Farm Show. Goats Alpine Yearling Milker — 12-24 Months Madison, Blasko Portersville Senior Doe Kid — 5-7 Months, Cal...
August 12, 2025 Special Sections
The following are first place winners from the Butler Farm Show. Junior Sheep Junior Supreme Champion Supreme Ewe, Adalynn Guiher, New Castle Supreme Ram, John Derunk, We...
August 12, 2025 Special Sections
The following are first place winners from the Butler Farm Show. Junior Supreme Champion All Breeds, Chloe Setzenfand, New Brighton Dairy Heifer, Lincoln Ansell, Renfrew ...
August 11, 2025 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK. Tkachenko,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
November 23, 2022 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
July 16, 2022 Local News
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
August 22, 2023 National News
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business

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