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.
SLIPPERY ROCK — For the eighth consecutive year, the borough will keep its tax rate flat.
According to Mayor Jondavid Longo, Slippery Rock was the second-highest taxed mu...
The Butler County Tourism & Convention Bureau announced the return of its 30 Days of Giveaways campaign with over $6,500 worth of prizes up for grabs.
It will launch Mond...
Butler Health System, part of the now-merged Independence Health System, is close to reaching a deal with the trustee of its bonds which would relieve some of the hospita...
Dozens of Ryan Gloyer Middle School students ventured outside the classroom to rake leaves and plant 158 trees along the winding tributary of Brush Creek on Wednesday mor...
FRANKFURT, Germany — Ford Motor Co. says it will reduce its workforce by 4,000 in Europe and the U.K. by the end of 2027, citing headwinds from the economy and pressure f...
WASHINGTON — Comcast will spin off many of its cable television networks that were once at the heart of the entertainment giant, with people increasingly swapping out the...
Volunteer fire companies will participate in a simulated fire training exercise the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 26 at the Clearview Mall in Center Township.
The 911 center w...
A wood burner caught fire at a house in East Butler on Tuesday night, Nov. 19, sending one person to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.
The report of the fire...
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ATHENS, Ga. — The Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in a case...
HARRISBURG — Philadelphia cannot impose stricter firearms regulations than are allowed by state law, Pennsylvania's Democratic-majority state Supreme Court ruled unanimou...
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it...
A Philadelphia jury awarded $11 million on Wednesday to a man whose holstered Sig Sauer pistol went off by itself while he was going down the stairs, causing a serious le...
NEW YORK — As prosecutors push to preserve President-elect Donald Trump’s historic hush money conviction, his lawyers urged a judge Wednesday to ignore them and scrap the...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump says he has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that the presi...
WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday against releasing a report on the panel's long-running investigation into President-elect Donald Tr...
Philadelphia’s mass transit system has reached a tentative contract deal with its largest workers union, averting a potential strike that could have seen thousands of emp...
WASHINGTON — As senators prepare to consider President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet, they will likely be doing so without a well-established staple of the c...
Mars Area High School graduate Piper Coffield has committed to play for Pittsburgh Riveters SC, a women’s soccer team that will play its inaugural season in USL W next sp...
Did you know that about 8,000 veterans are diagnosed with lung cancer each year?
And did you know that 5,000 veterans die from the disease per year?
That data from the U....
It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.
That slow burn of infections ...
After spending $118 million of his personal wealth on the campaign to reelect Donald Trump as president, billionaire Elon Musk has been tapped to lead a new Department of...
This holiday season, the Senator John Heinz History Center, Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum and Fort Pitt Museum are offering free admission for kids ages 17 and young...
Slippery Rock University's Theatre Department will present its newest production, “Alice by Heart,” with four shows running from Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 21 to 24, a...
An important era of musical history is ending in the next few weeks: The Eras Tour. After 149 shows, Taylor Swift will take her final bow on Dec. 8 and leave behind the r...
LOS ANGELES — Viola Davis became one of Hollywood's most revered actors through an array of powerful roles, from “Fences” to “The Woman King,” and now her decorated caree...
In the late 1920s, the Radium Dial Co. of Ottawa, Ill., hired women to paint watch faces with radioactive material.
The women were encouraged to lick the tips of their g...
NEW YORK — The holiday season really kicks off when the massive helium balloons start floating through New York. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade — two years away from ...
