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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.
Local News
The Karner family of Clay Township took home honors for Butler County on the last day of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, when Karolina Karner’s goats captured two Grand Champ...
January 15, 2025 Agriculture
Scuba diving has taken David Holder on adventures to more than a dozen countries and introduced him to lifelong friendships. More recently, it has given him a career path...
January 15, 2025 Local News
NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make community college free for students in select programs at SUNY and CUNY working toward careers in sought-after fields, she anno...
January 15, 2025 Business
BUTLER TWP — The Butler Area Sewer Authority board met Tuesday, Jan. 14, to continue work toward settling financial accounts with other parties. Since the sale of BASA to...
January 15, 2025 Local News
At their first meeting of the year on Tuesday morning, Jan. 14, the Saxonburg Area Business Association reshuffled its board. Of the seven members of the 2024 board, two ...
January 15, 2025 Business
Woman travels to visit grandmother’s home country
January 15, 2025 Local News
ADAMS TWP — The Quality EMS executive director thanked township’s supervisors Monday, Jan. 13, for helping make sure the department remained financially solvent while oth...
January 15, 2025 Government
A future high school renovation is on the radar
January 15, 2025 Local News
WASHINGTON — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is cohosting a reception with billionaire Republican donors next week for Donald Trump’s inauguration, the latest sign of the Facebo...
January 15, 2025 Business
Senior citizens at LIFE Butler County celebrated the Lunar New Year with crafts, including creating cherry blossom trees. ...
January 15, 2025 Local News
Other News
The following Butler County schools are operating on adjusted schedules for Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2024: Karns City Area School District - 2 Hour Delay Knoch School Distric...
January 15, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, has announced that he will continue to serve as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee Tax Subcommittee for the 119th Congress, the same ro...
January 15, 2025 Government
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is reminding Pennsylvanians that all PennDOT drivers license centers are closed for a three-day period between Saturday, Jan...
January 15, 2025 Local News
PHILADELPHIA — When President-elect Donald Trump ends his inaugural address next week, a group of police and EMTs who responded to the assassination attempt on his life i...
January 14, 2025 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, vowed Tuesday to foster a “warrior culture” at the Pentagon and confronted allegat...
January 14, 2025 National News
CAIRO — Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages, two officials involved in the talks said Tuesday. Me...
January 14, 2025 International News
LOS ANGELES — Millions Southern Californians faced new wildfire warnings Tuesday, and tens of thousands saw their power shut off as strong winds blew across the parched l...
January 14, 2025 National News
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attendin...
January 14, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith said his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of ...
January 14, 2025 National News
Sports
Lifelong Saxonburg resident Scott Ekas crossed off another running milestone over the weekend: the 2025 Walt Disney World Marathon. Ekas, a 1989 Knoch High School graduat...
January 15, 2025 Sports
BUFFALO TWP — The score got out of hand early. Starters left the floor. But one element of Knoch’s 71-29 WPIAL Section 1-4A boys basketball victory at Freeport on Tuesday...
January 14, 2025 Sports
A 32% effort (13 of 40) from the field and 17 turnovers doomed Butler in a 49-38 boys basketball loss Tuesday at Fox Chapel. Andrew Gettinger tallied 15 points, four rebo...
January 14, 2025 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Jamie Oleksiak and Eeli Tolvanen scored 49 seconds apart in the third period to erase a one-goal deficit and rally the Seattle Kraken past the Pittsburgh Pen...
January 14, 2025 Sports
Butler grad Makenna Maier was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s basketball player of the week Monday. Maier, a junior wing at St. Vincent, averaged 20 poi...
January 14, 2025 Sports
Butler County Community College women’s volleyball is holding a clinic Jan. 25 as well as upcoming weekends through April. Interested players will work on skills and par...
January 14, 2025 Sports
PITTSBURGH — In his final news conference of the season, Mike Tomlin was noncommittal about who will be playing quarterback for the Steelers next season. All three quarte...
January 14, 2025 Sports
Mars Hockey Club will hold its fifth annual ICE ALS charity game next week at Baierl Ice Complex. During the game, fans in attendance can participate in a 50/50 raffle to...
January 14, 2025 Sports
PITTSBURGH — There is a sameness to the way the Pittsburgh Steelers keep ending their seasons. Yet, Mike Tomlin shrugged Tuesday when asked if it feels as if the Steeler...
January 14, 2025 Sports
Editorial
During most of the 100 years of his life, and even in these first two weeks of his death, former President Jimmy Carter has been gifting us with the enduring example of h...
January 15, 2025 Other Voices
January 15, 2025 Cartoons
Under the cover of darkness, Cheryl Irwin has gone to shovel snow from her neighbor’s driveway. The Cranberry Township resident said over the weekend, that she likes to ...
January 15, 2025 Our Opinion
Community
Announcements
In loving memory of James E. Wahl. Happy 63rd Anniversary in Heaven This is our first anniversary apart. I miss you so much, but I know you could not stay. We shared so m...
January 15, 2025 Other Tributes
The nursing faculty at Butler County Community College teamed with nursing staff at Butler Memorial Hospital on Friday, Jan. 16, 2009, to train on robotic patients simula...
January 15, 2025 Time Capsules
Arts & Entertainment
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Beyoncé will donate $2.5 million for wildfire relief efforts, the superstar singer announced on her Instagram post on Monday, as other performing artist...
January 15, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Other
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. — Psalm 100:4 ...
January 15, 2025 Verse of the Day
January 15, 2025 Daily Photo Gallery
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