By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Sheriff’s department will hold two satellite events in Forward Township next month.   The firearms license to carry and project D.U.M.P. event w...

Grace Ann Zubricky, 88, of Charleroi, Fallowfield Township, died Saturday, April 6, 2019, at Cambridge Creekside, Charleroi. She was born Feb. 8, 1931, in Belle Vernon, the daughter of Amerigo and Ann...

Gary William Hoover Jr., 30, of Vestaburg, died unexpectedly on Saturday, April 6, 2019. He was born Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1988, in Silver Spring, Md., the son of Gary W. Hoover Sr. and Shirley M. Gedma...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Alex Glumac isn’t the biggest guy on the field for Serra Catholic’s baseball team. On the mound, he probably doesn’t throw the hardest, either. But the young man c...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward coach Harry Rutherford stood and watched Monday as his team struggled early against Thomas Jefferson pitcher Bella Bucy.   Their first time through...

Sara Maxon Cappelli Morgan, 89, of Titusville, Fla., formerly of Charleroi, died Monday, March 25, 2019. She was born in Elco on Aug. 5, 1929, daughter of the late William and Eliza Giles Maxon. For m...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent The Monessen Greyhounds brought their bats to Memorial Stadium for Monday’s Section 2-A baseball game. And the result was a 16-1 rout in a game called in the bott...

By the Mon Valley Independent Kylie Quigley tossed her second no-hitter of the season in Charleroi’s 10-0 mercy-rule victory over Beth-Center in Section 3-2A play Monday afternoon.   Quigley walked fi...

Rita M. Popelas, 92, of White Oak, died April 3, 2019, at Allegheny General Hospital. Born May 3, 1926, in East McKeesport, she was the daughter of the late Guy W. and Julia Ann Betz Hampton and the w...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi firefighters were called to the corner of 11th Street and McKean Avenue after a vehicle crashed into the Charleroi Russian Club building Monday afternoon. ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The American Civil Liberties Union confirmed Monday that it is moving forward with a lawsuit against the Mc-Keesport Area School District. ACLU Pennsylvania Legal Dire...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Nearly two years after their cases were dismissed in Washington County Court, the parishioners of St. Agnes and the former St. Anthony churches will once again ha...

By jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Forward Township supervisors made a monetary contribution to an organization taking part in a trap/neuter/return project to help reduce the number of cats in several...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania American Water will invest $13 million to replacing aging and undersized water mains in southern Allegheny County this year. On Monday, the company anno...

By Kaylie Moore and taylor brown kmoore@yourmvi.com, tbrown@yourmvi.com Two Mid-Mon Valley student writers recently earned national awards for their original works.   Belle Vernon Area Middle School e...

By Natasha Lindstrom A McKeesport woman took a plea deal Monday to avoid the death penalty for suffocating her 17-month-old son out of anger when she believed her boyfriend was cheating on her. Christ...

Doris J. Risley, 86, of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, April 6, 2019. A daughter of the late William H. and Florence M. Anderson White, she was born in Denbo, Pa., on Oct. 1, 1932...

By the Mon Valley Independent The BVA Charitable Fund is underwriting costs of establishing a “school store” as part of its latest round of grants to students and staff. The board of directors has app...

Lanny R. Bradley, 62, of Rostraver Township, passed away on Sunday, April 7, 2019, after a short illness. A son of the late Mildred Bradley, Sandy Balsam and Arnold Bradley, he was born in McKeesport ...

Alice LaVerne Williams, 89, of North Charleroi, passed away Friday, April 6, 2019, in Mon Valley Care Center, Monongahela. She was born Aug. 28, 1929, in North Charleroi, daughter of the late Albert a...