By zack zeigler For the MV Independent West Mifflin’s Jake Walker lined a walk-off triple to left-center field in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Titans a 4-3 victory over Elizabeth Forwa...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Tom Murphy!   Monessen School District students got a lesson in anti-bullying Wednesday from Murphy, a mixed martial artist, self-pro...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Residents angry about waste from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill took their concerns to the Rostraver Township Board of Commissioners Wednesday night.   Reside...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A little less than a year after bricks from the former Cougar Stadium in Charleroi began to fall, the Mon Valley Alliance is working to secure grant funding to compl...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Several McKeesport first responders got promotions at Wednesday’s city council meeting. One firefighter was promoted and five members of the police department moved up...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A veteran who hails from McKeesport and his creative partner were recognized Wednesday at the Mc-Keesport Regional History & Heritage Center for helping to honor Vietn...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Ongoing construction in downtown Monessen is creating a clearance and safety hazard for Mid-Mon Valley Transit Authority buses and passengers between Fourth and Fift...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport man is in Allegheny County Jail after allegedly having non-consensual sex with a woman in his Locust Street apartment. Ryan John Zier, 34, is charged with...

Jimmie B. “Bozo” Coulter II, 64, of Donora, died Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in Monongahela-Valley Hospital. Born Aug. 26, 1954, in New Eagle, he was the son of the late Jimmie B. and Eleanor Minger Coult...

Cherie Nogy Perlmutter, 79, of Stillwater, Minn., formerly of Belle Vernon, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, in the University of Minnesota Medical Center, after a short illness. Cherie was a v...

Elinor A. Zolock, 94, of Rostraver Township, died Tuesday, April 2, 2019.  Born in Roscoe on June 30, 1924, she was the daughter of the late William Sidney Lewis Jr. and Susanna Ermlick Lewis. She att...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Behind the superb pitching of Logan Hartman, the Frazier softball team bounced back from a tough loss in impressive fashion Tuesday. Hartman carried a perfect game...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com A persistent offensive effort and Kailey Larcinese’s three-hit shutout carried Elizabeth Forward to its first Section 2-4A win of the season with a 13-0 triumph over...

By jeremy tepper For the Mon Valley Independent The details change, but the narrative stays the same for the Belle Vernon softball team this season. One game, the Leopards might hit well, but struggle...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent When the teams in the section include Chartiers-Houston, Frazier and Carmichaels, games against other section foes become crucial if your goal is to make the play...

By the Mon Valley Independent Monessen finished with 14 hits and scored 12 runs in the first three innings of a 12-2 victory over Bentworth in nonsection play Tuesday. The Greyhounds (1-1) scored five...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Donora man allegedly under influence of a controlled substance led police on a chase westbound on Interstate 70 early Tuesday morning. Wade John Boyd, 52, is charg...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com An Elizabeth Township man is accused of communicating online with an undercover police officer, whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl from Massachusetts, for unlawf...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com The 78th annual Mon Valley Home Show opens Friday at Rostraver Ice Garden in Rostraver Township. The show is designed for homeowners in all stages of remodeling, lan...

By Beth Hope-Cushey Carroll Township Supervisors approved a resolution supporting the 2020 Census, Complete Count Program. “It is very important to participate,” said board Chairman Tom Rapp. “So when...