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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 following items were collected from the state police, Butler: State Police, Butler Oct. 16 — Kurt N. Weaver, 58, of Butler, was charged with misdemeanor DUI related ...
November 02, 2024 Police Reports
Warrendale, Allegheny County-based security and automation solutions company Guardian Protection has acquired Vortex Security, headquartered in Jupiter, Fla. Vortex has o...
November 02, 2024 Business
The Butler Youth Baseball Association received a much-needed automatic external defibrillator as a donation from the Allegheny Health Network’s Cardiovascular Institute o...
November 02, 2024 Local News
The Gov. Josh Shapiro administration is reminding Pennsylvanians to change the batteries in their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms while changing their clocks for ...
November 02, 2024 Local News
After over three years of preparation, Butler Memorial Hospital’s Butler Family Medicine Residency Program has the green light to begin its first year of class in July 20...
November 02, 2024 Local News
Santa Claus will kick off the holiday season when he makes his annual first stop from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 22 at Cranberry Township’s newly renovated municipal center. The s...
November 02, 2024 Local News
Butler steel manufacturer Cleveland-Cliffs announced the company has completed the acquisition of Stelco Holdings. The addition of Stelco enhances the company’s position ...
November 02, 2024 Business
If you do good work, people will notice. Ryan McIntyre, owner of Perspectrum Studios and CineSpeed, has come a long way from his high school days of making skateboarding ...
November 02, 2024 Business
November 02, 2024 Local News
Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program recently awarded $2.45 million in state funding to Cranberry and Jackson townships. Cranberry Township will receiv...
November 02, 2024 Local News
Other News
The good news: You will get a glorious extra hour of sleep. The bad: It'll be dark as a pocket by late afternoon for the next few months in the U.S. Daylight saving time ...
November 02, 2024 National News
PHILADELPHIA — A legal fight over Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes is back in state court in Pennsylvania, a loss for the billionaire, after a federal judge...
November 02, 2024 National News
ATLANTA — Rapper Young Thug pleaded guilty Thursday in Atlanta to gang, drug and gun charges and will be released from jail, though he could be put back behind bars if he...
November 02, 2024 National News
LONDON — Collins Dictionary has declared “brat” — the album title that became a summer-living ideal — its 2024 word of the year. The word, used by singer Charli XCX as t...
November 02, 2024 National News
WARSAW, Poland — It’s the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. That traditional belief has morphed over ...
November 01, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump plan rallies in Pittsburgh on Monday as both candidates spend the final day before Election Da...
November 01, 2024 Elections
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in P...
November 01, 2024 Pennsylvania News
ORLANDO, Fla. — A gunman who opened fire during a Halloween street celebration that drew thousands of costumed revelers to downtown Orlando killed two people and wounded ...
November 01, 2024 National News
In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump zero in on the battleground state of Wisconsin. Meanwhile...
November 01, 2024 National News
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel launched waves of deadly airstrikes across Lebanon and Gaza that killed at least 24 people in Lebanon’s northeast on Friday, according ...
November 01, 2024 International News
Sports
Win or go home. Those are the stakes starting tonight for six Butler County football teams: Freeport, Karns City, Mars, North Catholic, Seneca Valley and Union/A-C Valley...
November 02, 2024 Sports
PITTSBURGH — The WPIAL Class 4A Girls Soccer Championship game was a rematch of a meeting in late August between Seneca Valley and Peters Township. The Indians won that d...
November 02, 2024 Sports
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport knows how to stay grounded. Amos Glenn ran for 189 yards — 126 in the first quarter — and a touchdown while quarterback Drew Ross scampered for 68 ...
November 02, 2024 Sports
The District 9 and WPIAL football playoffs began tonight, with five Butler County teams in action across Western Pennsylvania. The Butler Eagle photo team was at four gam...
November 02, 2024 Sports
KENNEDY TWP — Mars football put the fight in Fightin’ Planets on Friday night. Behind the legs of running back Eric Kasperowicz, who tallied six touchdowns, Mars was able...
November 02, 2024 Sports
BROOKVILLE — Jase Ferguson’s deep ball dropped gracefully into Central Clarion teammate Mason Burford’s hands, allowing him to wheel the rest of the way for a 63-yard sco...
November 02, 2024 Sports
RIMERSBURG — Union/A-C Valley ran its way to the next round of the playoffs with a 57-30 home win over the Otto-Eldred Terrors, in a game filled to the brim with highligh...
November 01, 2024 Sports
For North Catholic, the seeding didn’t matter. Coming up with big plays did. The 11th-seeded Trojans overcame a 14-6 halftime deficit by making a number of positive plays...
November 01, 2024 Sports
No. 18 Pittsburgh (7-0, 3-0 ACC) at No. 20 SMU (7-1, 4-0), Saturday, 8 p.m. ET (ACC Network). BetMGM College Football Odds: SMU by 7 1/2. Series record: SMU leads 3-2-1. ...
November 01, 2024 Sports
Editorial
Moving to the Karns City area about 30 years ago, I was asked to join the Rotary Club. After attending a meeting, I realized that there was a strong emphasis on the commu...
November 02, 2024 Letters to the Editor
If you’ve ever wondered if one person alone can make an impact, then you should pick up the Tuesday, Oct. 29, edition of the Butler Eagle. Within the pages of that editio...
November 02, 2024 Our Opinion
Blended families or bonus families (also known as stepfamilies), whether they are formed through parents’ remarriage or living together, are common. More than 10 percent ...
November 02, 2024 Other Voices
November 02, 2024 Cartoons
A colleague said he called a meeting with his daughter’s Advanced Placement English teacher because the teacher responds to student writing using artificial intelligence....
November 02, 2024 Other Voices
For almost 10 years, I have had the privilege to volunteer in Butler Memorial Hospital’s emergency room. The workers there are highly professional, motivated and caring t...
November 02, 2024 Letters to the Editor
Community
When Stacie Williams’ husband of two decades, Sam, was stricken with metastatic lung cancer in 2020, the Club Hope Foundation delivered a “box of hope” to the family cont...
November 02, 2024 Community
The Cranberry Elks will open to the public for a Cash Bash, to be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Elks Lodge, 20720 Route 19, Cranberry Township. Cash draw...
November 02, 2024 Community
Elementary students at the Knoch School District will not go hungry on the weekend, thanks to a generous donation by a Coherent, formerly II-IV in Clinton Township. Coher...
November 02, 2024 Community
Where Rock Meets Bach is back at Lincoln Hall in Foxburg by popular demand. The unique concert will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at the historic hall at 31 Main St.,...
November 02, 2024 Community
CANDLE Inc. will offer its Reality Tour drug prevention program on three dates in November to youths ages 10 to 17 and their parents. The program includes live scenarios ...
November 02, 2024 Community
The Butler Senior High School Class of 1974 presented the donations from their 50th class reunion to the school district’s Kids’ Weekend Backpack Program. Four member of ...
November 02, 2024 Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lun...
November 02, 2024 Senior
The Mars Area Public Library will welcome author Cynthia Crytzer at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 at the library, 107 Grand Ave., Mars. In her book “A Civil War Husband,” Crytz...
November 02, 2024 Community
BUTLER TWP — The Lyndora American Legion Post 778 opened its doors to hundreds of veterans on Friday, Nov. 1, for the ninth annual Stand Down, a one-day event that offers...
November 02, 2024 Military News
Stromboli is an Italian-American invention said to have been created in Philadelphia in the 1950s, but the dish takes its name from an island off the coast of Sicily. ...
November 02, 2024 Recipes
Announcements
George and Shirley Winger, of Harmony, will celebrate 60 years of marriage with a family dinner. Winger married the former Shirley Loercher on Nov. 7, 1964, at St. Stan’s...
November 02, 2024 Anniversaries
Laura Barr and Chris Covert were united in marriage Sept. 21, 2024, at Lake Arthur. The Rev. Deb Adams officiated. The bride is the daughter of Karolyn Barr and Fred Dunc...
November 02, 2024 Weddings
Arts & Entertainment
What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world! Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all the usual celestial treasures, it’s been one...
November 02, 2024 Starwatch
Robert Zemeckis’ latest movie is insanely ambitious, starting with the dinosaurs and ending in present day with the Roomba. But it's fixed on just one spot. “Here” r...
November 02, 2024 Reviews
Things are going a little too well in “Anora” until a call from Russia and a knock at the door changes the trajectory of the movie. This extended sequence, deeply stressf...
November 02, 2024 Reviews
PINE CITY, N.Y. — An orphaned squirrel that became a social media star called Peanut was euthanized after state authorities seized the beloved pet during a raid on his ca...
November 02, 2024 Arts & Entertainment
The efforts of Butler County’s Emergency Services Unit to protect the public and former President Donald Trump are spotlighted in the documentary “Butler Under Fire,” whi...
November 02, 2024 Arts & Entertainment
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Thieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stole two works from a famous series of screen prints by American po...
November 01, 2024 Arts & Entertainment
Other
See all the photos by Eagle photographers taken at four football games on Friday, Nov. 1 — Freeport v. Mt. Pleasant, Karns City v. Central Clarion, North Catholic v. Deer...
November 02, 2024 Daily Photo Gallery
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