By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Today is my 28th birthday, and I am sure you are asking yourself: “Why do I care and why is this in the newspaper?” The truth is I was inspired to write this column by...

By LES HORVATH Before the sun came up on Thursday, all 13 members of the Bentworth Middle School cheerleading squad were already in school. It wasn’t an athletic event that brought them in early. Inst...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com ’Tis the season for holiday tournaments around the Mon Valley. A number of Mon Valley basketball teams, boys and girls, will take to the hardwood beginning Wednesd...

By the Mon Valley Independent The injury-depleted Elizabeth Forward girls basketball continued play in the KSA Disney Classic in Orlando Saturday. Senior Bri Spirnak dominated play with a 26-point per...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Too much length, too much speed and too much pressure. That combination signaled the end of Bishop Canevin’s crusade to Monessen Friday night. The Greyhounds used ...

By ZACK ZEIGLER For the Mon Valley Independent There’s good shooting nights, then there’s nights like McKeesport’s Christian Moore had Friday. Moore drained six 3-pointers to finish with 24 points in ...

By Jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com The Ringgold boys basketball team turned a slim third quarter lead into a double digit advantage in the final frame of a 66-53 victory over Elizabeth Forward in Sect...

By Jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Serra Catholic’s Jimmy Moon and Bernard Lawson each picked up a double-double in a convincing 75-48 victory over Chartiers-Houston in Section 2-2A play Friday night....

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A major water line replacement project in Monessen will begin shortly after the start of the new year. The Authority of the Borough of Charleroi has announced Jan. 2...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office has added an area man to the list of alleged fugitives deemed “high priority” by the county court’s family division. Sheriff Will...

By Rich Cholodofsky A disgraced “predator priest” formerly with the Greensburg diocese finally apologized publicly for molesting a Catholic school boy in the early 1990s. “I am so, so sorry for what I...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com California University of Pennsylvania will soon expand its plant biology program through a unique hop yard, thanks to a state grant. Gov. Tom Wolf announced this wee...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Santa Claus is coming to town! He will hitch a ride with several Mid-Mon Valley fire departments to visit local children Monday before heading out on his annual worl...

“Merry Christmas to our residents.” That’s the message Elizabeth borough Mayor Barry Boucher had for residents after council unanimously passed a 2019 budget that holds the line on real estate taxes. ...

By Brian C. Rittmeyer With the arrival of twins on Wednesday, Jefferson Hospital has reached 1,000 births in a year for the first time in the four-year history of its Women and Infants Center, Alleghe...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com “Cowards.” “You should all be shot.” “Enjoy the lawsuits that are coming your way.” Those are just three of the outraged comments Elizabeth Township commissioners had ...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Borough’s former police chief, who is accused of abusing his role to steal countless stamp bags of heroin from the evidence room, turned himself in Thursda...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Just days after Monessen Mayor Matt Shorraw came under fire for a controversial appointment to the redevelopment authority, his appointee has resigned. Last week, Sh...

By Natasha Lindstrom A McKeesport man was sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in a far-reaching drug trafficking ring that sold fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine in the Clairton a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora council has asked its solicitor to look into holding someone accountable legally for the ongoing costs associated with cleaning up an illegal dump site. Du...