Erica Leigh Franks, 37, of Brighton, Colo., formerly of Monessen, passed away peacefully with her family by her side, on April 12, 2019, from a rare blood disorder. She was a graduate of Monessen High...

By Jeremy Sellew jsellew@yourmvi.com Don’t look now, but there’s another local softball team in the playoff hunt. With its 7-4 win over visiting Avella Wednesday afternoon, the Monessen softball team ...

By Ashley Chase For the MV Independent Serra Catholic saw its five-game winning streak come to a close on Wednesday at Renziehausen Park as a tough Vincentian Academy squad took its second win of the ...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Monessen baseball coach Billy Matush earned win No. 100 in his career as his Greyhounds cruised to a 13-3 win over Mapletown in five innings Wednesday.   The Hounds ...

Lonzo Charles Gardner Jr. - MONESSEN - FEB 17, 1957 - APRIL 13, 2019. Tragically on April 13, 2019, Lonzo was taken away from this Earth. He leaves to cherish his memory, wife Dawn “Bunny” Gardner; be...

Norma Jean Pasquinelli, 90, of Rostraver Township, passed away on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. Born on Sept. 9, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Louis and Mollie Pasquinelli. She was in the real e...

Thomas G. Slavic, 64, of Ruffs Dale, died Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Born in Uniontown on Aug. 17, 1954, he was the son of Thelma Harris Slavic, who survives and resides in West Newton, and the late Alb...

John Anthony Carney Jr., 88, of Elizabeth Township, passed away Tuesday, April 23, 2019. He was born May 24, 1930, in Elizabeth Township, the son of the late John Anthony Carney Sr., and the late Sadi...

Thomas Duttine, 88, of Laguna Hills, Calif., formerly of Charleroi, passed away on Jan. 24, 2019, at Saddleback Medical Center. He was born on Sept. 3, 1930, son of the late Emma Nagy and Howard Dutti...

Virginia R. Little, 83 of Donora, formerly of West Elizabeth and Elrama, passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2019. Born in West Elizabeth on Oct. 10, 1935, Virginia was a daughter of the late Rudolf an...

Edison Skippy Macosta, 87, of North Charleroi, passed away peacefully in his home, surrounded by his family, on April 20, 2019. He was born on Oct. 18, 1931, in Pittsburgh, Pa., son of the late Frank ...

Elsie Mae Mascara, 105, of Davie, Fla., formerly of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Friday, Nov. 23, 2018. A daughter of the late Philip Muir and Clara Strenske Hency Muir, she was born in F...

Services were held for Ocie L. Paige Jr., 80, of Mc-Keesport, who departed this Earthly life on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in UPMC McKeesport Hospital. He was born July 5, 1938, in Birmingham, Ala., s...

Mark C. Patterson, 50, of Dayton, Ohio, died Wednesday, April 17, 2019. He was born in Charleroi on June 23, 1968. Mark was a 1986 graduate of Belle Vernon Area High School. He worked as a tree trimme...

Joseph H. Schmidt, 95, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Monessen, died Saturday, April 20, 2019, at his home in Claremont Retirement Village. He was born on July 6, 1923, in Monessen, the son of the lat...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District administrators claimed during a press conference Tuesday that they didn’t stand in the way of creating a black student union on the hig...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Plum Street in Elizabeth Borough will officially become a temporary town square this summer.   Borough council members voted unanimously Tuesday to close the roadway...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com “The Merchant Marines aboard that ship brought aid to millions of people during World War II and thereafter.” That’s what U.S. Army veteran Frank Tarli of Glassport ha...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Lincoln Borough Police Department took delivery last week on an all-terrain side-by-side vehicle. The 2019 Polaris Ranger XP 1000 will be used as a patrol and resc...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com In its previous meeting with Ringgold, it took the Elizabeth Forward softball team some time to get its offense going. Only a few pitches in to Tuesday’s rematch, An...