Steve Ferris

1 week ago | butlereagle.com | Steve Ferris

The defendant in the May 2021 shooting death of a New Castle man in Butler County has been held in county prison for four years without bail. He now wants to be released on nominal bail because he has not been tried within 180 days. Paris E. Carter, 26, of Downingtown, has been charged by state police with homicide in the May 17 death of David A. Hines, who was 38. Carter has been held in county prison without bail since he was arrested May 26, 2021, in Philadelphia.

2 weeks ago | cranberryeagle.com | Steve Ferris

Years before he became the county emergency services director, Steve Bicehouse was an eyewitness to the worst natural disaster in county history. He was 14 years old 40 years ago when he and his sister were in the yard of their family’s home in Evans City. The next door neighbor came out and said she heard over her emergency scanner that a tornado was bearing down on them. “I was young. I saw it come over the hill,” Bicehouse recalled.

2 weeks ago | butlereagle.com | Steve Ferris

Years before he became the county emergency services director, Steve Bicehouse was an eyewitness to the worst natural disaster in county history. He was 14 years old 40 years ago when he and his sister were in the yard of their family’s home in Evans City. The next door neighbor came out and said she heard over her emergency scanner that a tornado was bearing down on them. “I was young. I saw it come over the hill,” Bicehouse recalled.

2 weeks ago | butlereagle.com | Steve Ferris

Facing 29 charges, including strangulation and assault A Karns City man has sued Pennsylvania Attorney General David Sunday, claiming he is being disarmed, or prohibited from possessing firearms, in violation of his U.S. and state constitutional rights. Joseph R. Parker, 35, filed the handwritten suit on his own behalf on April 29 in Butler County Common Pleas Court.

2 weeks ago | butlereagle.com | Steve Ferris

The extensive criminal history of a Butler man, charged with using a hammer to threaten an employee during a gas station robbery last year, outweighed calls for leniency from family members when he was sentenced Thursday. Zackary N. Clark, 28, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of robbery and was sentenced to serve 36 months to 72 months in state prison followed by 12 months of probation and pay $250 in restitution to Kwik Fill gas station.