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One dead in Penn Twp. crash
One person died in a multi-vehicle crash near the intersection of Airport and Pittsburgh roads early Friday afternoon. A truck and a minivan crashed around 12:...
Students gather at SRU to protest ICE
SLIPPERY ROCK — Around 50 students marched Friday, Jan. 30, around Slippery Rock University’s campus joining national protests against funding U.S. Immigration ...
How Butler Memorial Hospital staff stayed overnight to offer continued care during snowstorm
While the majority of Butler County residents were stuck at home Sunday night after more than a foot of snow covered streets and made some impassable, the weath...
The winner of Butler County’s student section fan vote is ... the Karns City Gremlins!
Karns City’s Quinn Robinson spoke proudly of the Gremlins’ student section during a Butler Eagle series of stories about the county’s best student sections and ...
How remote learning kept Butler County students progressing following Sunday’s snowstorm
Gone are the days where more than a foot of snow meant children could enjoy a day with no classes to worry about. In the post-pandemic world, remote learning is...
One dead in Penn Twp. crash
One dead in Penn Twp. ...
Students gather at SRU to protest ICE
Students gather at SRU...
How Butler Memorial Hospital staff stayed overnight to offer continued care duri...
How Butler Memorial Ho...
The winner of Butler County’s student section fan vote is ... the Karns City Gre...
The winner of Butler C...
How remote learning kept Butler County students progressing following Sunday’s s...
How remote learning ke...
Top Headlines
Glenn Miller built his life around service, quietly giving decades of time and leadership to the Butler community. “He never did anything for a self-serving reason,” Stan...
January 29, 2026 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Slippery Rock Area school board’s educational programming committee heard a pitch Monday evening, Jan. 26, on what offering the U.S. Army Junior Reser...
January 28, 2026 Local News
A Parker man was given a state prison sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to robbing a Brady Township home in May 2024, seeking retaliation against a witness and flee...
January 30, 2026 Crime & Courts
WINFIELD TWP — A conditional use hearing to operate a small storage facility on a residential-zoned property drew a large-than-usual crowd of concerned residents to a tow...
January 30, 2026 Local News
A Butler man is accused of breaking into a residence Wednesday, Jan. 28, and stealing $100 and a Mercedes-Benz, Butler city police said. Ronald A. Kapsin, 45, was charge...
January 30, 2026 Local News
News
Dozens of people gathered Friday, Jan. 30, at Slippery Rock University to protest the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The protest was part of a nati...
January 30, 2026 Local News
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-8th, announced he would hold a town hall for Butler County voters on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the Unionville Volunteer Fire Company on Mahood R...
January 30, 2026 Local News
A man has been charged with felony retail theft after police say he pocketed a bracelet from a jewelry store. Cranberry Township police charged George Tarnovan, 37, with ...
January 30, 2026 Local News
Butler City Council voted unanimously Thursday, Jan. 29, to approve a $412,000 prepayment toward the chassis for a new fire truck in an effort to save some money. Council...
January 30, 2026 Local News
After several days of digging out of the snow, Butler Mayor Bob Dandoy said there is still a lot of work ahead as the city’s streets department shifts its focus to areas ...
January 30, 2026 Local News
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Community
Although temperatures will finally break out of the single-digits and teens next week, a m...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Butler County Humane Society helped cover the cost
January 28, 2026
AARP Foundation Tax-Aide will again be offering its free in-person income tax preparation ...
January 28, 2026
FOXBURG, Clarion Co. — The auditorium at Allegheny-Clarion Valley Junior/Senior High Schoo...
January 27, 2026
The Cranberry Community Uniting People (CUP) is now accepting applications to be its 2026 ...
January 27, 2026
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Sports
In one respect, Karns City football's final home game of 1997 was no different for Nate Ri...
 
Ava McNaughton received her athletic inspiration at a very young age. “I was 5 and wat...
January 30, 2026
As if Seneca Valley girls basketball’s perfect section record wasn’t enough, the Raiders h...
January 29, 2026
Alexis Cashdollar posted a game-high 14 points and Cecilia Christy another 11 as Mars down...
January 29, 2026
JACKSON TWP — Natalie Hambly is usually good for a remarkable quote. Yet, a few days befor...
January 29, 2026
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Editorial
The opportunity to try a taste of what the county has to offer with a side of promotional deals and flavors is passing fast. Now in its fifth year, Re...
January 29, 2026 Our Opinion
January 29, 2026 Cartoons
Wish them well. Next month, four astronauts are expected to board a space capsule called Orion, blast off on a rocket known as the Space Launch System...
January 29, 2026 Other Voices
Recent stories have highlighted a disturbing trend seen across the nation cropping up right here in Butler County. Criminal cases against those assaul...
January 28, 2026 Our Opinion
The most celebrated early successes of artificial intelligence were computers beating human champions in games such as chess and Go. Today we are all...
January 28, 2026 Other Voices
Business
HARRISBURG — Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. said Friday that it will build a $3.5 billion manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, as the company expands ...
January 30, 2026 Business
The Butler Farm Show is gearing up for its 78th season,and it has named its board members for the coming year. The senior board consists of president ...
January 30, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade wa...
January 30, 2026 Business
Apple’s iPhone sales soared to a new quarterly record during the holiday season, despite artificial intelligence blunders that prompted the technology...
January 30, 2026 Business
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday signed a law that will open the nation’s oil sector to privatization, re...
January 30, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Young thespians grow better understanding of acting as they age
January 29, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian-born comic actor and “SCTV” alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two “Home Alone” movies and won an E...
January 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
As if they’d leave “Clueless” off the list. Cher Horowitz fans, rejoice: Amy Heckerling's 1995 teen comedy is one of 25 classic movies chosen this year by the Library of ...
January 29, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
WASHINGTON — The head of artistic programming at the Kennedy Center abruptly stepped away from his post less than two weeks after he was named to the job in the latest si...
January 29, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — The 68th annual Grammy Awards will take place Feb. 1 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. This year marks a return to normalcy after the 2025 award show was...
January 29, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Winterfest, the annual showcase of all that Moraine State Park has to offer, is Saturday, Jan. 31. The event is hosted by the Moraine Preservation Fund, a nonprofit volun...
January 29, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Special Sections
Wellness offerings across Butler County are expanding to meet people where they are, whether that's in a chair yoga class at the Cranberry YMCA or lying still during a so...
January 21, 2026 Special Sections
When parents enroll their children in martial arts classes at Butler-area studios, they expect to see kicks, punches and sparring drills. What many don’t anticipate is th...
January 21, 2026 Special Sections
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
January 14, 2026 Special Sections
This holiday season, some shoppers are looking beyond traditional wrapped gifts — the kind that sometimes end up forgotten in the back of the closet — and choosing instea...
December 11, 2025 Special Sections
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
December 10, 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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