By Jeremy Sellew jsellew@yourmvi.com It was an all Monessen semifinal Monday at Peters Township.   But it was the former Greyhound claiming a win over the current bunch. Tim Tyree, who wore the black ...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com With her team leading by five points after one quarter against the defending WPIAL Class 4A champions Monday night, Elizabeth Forward head coach Krystal Gibbs was fe...

By LES HARVATH For the MV Independent When Elizabeth Forward last had a bowling team, current players were in anywhere from the fifth to eighth grades. Six years ago marked the initial season for EF b...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Students at Monessen Elementary Center got a chance Monday to play African instruments and learn about the history of black influences on American music. Guy Loui...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The havoc wreaked by wind gusts that reached more than 60 mph and swept across the Mon Valley on Sunday lingered throughout the area Monday. The National Weather Servi...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area School Board is hopeful for the future after filling three vacancies Monday. Daniel E. Engstrom, Daniel G. Kovatch and Stacey Livengood were select...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After sending letters to area newspapers advocating a ballot question on legalizing recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania, state Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, plan...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Woody’s Italian Restaurant co-owner Dan Antonelli said he and his employees are “lost” and “devastated” by a fire that ripped through the interior of the Versailles-ba...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township police are looking for an 18-year-old Duquesne man accused of shooting another man during a robbery earlier this month. Police say Solomon Redd...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Port Vue woman entered a guity plea Monday in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws in a case that involved a wiretap. Pittsburgh-based United...

Doris M. Anderson, 92, of Lynnwood, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. A daughter of the late William and Della Greene Fisher, she was born in North Charleroi on May 7, 1926. A residen...

Corinne Mae Kirkpatrick, age 87, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, surrounded by family and friends. She was born April 21, 1931, and spent her childhood in Donora before moving to Fall...

Robert W. Streyle, 79, of Charleroi, Fallowfield Township, passed away Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Laurel Ridge Center Uniontown. He was born July 22, 1939 in Pittsburgh, PA a son of the late Robert P. ...

James “Jim” W. Guest, 87, of Canonsburg, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, in Paramount Senior Living in McMurray. He was born on Aug. 23, 1931, in Charleroi, to James Harry and Pauli...

By Jeremy Tepper For the MV Independent When Phil Pergola thought about the potential outcomes of his Ringgold team’s matchup with New Castle, he envisioned a number of scenarios. Perhaps the top-seed...

By Dan Palm For the MV Independent Elizabeth Forward’s Ryan Michaels and Thayne Lawrence of Frazier continued their dominating seasons by winning gold at the Pennsylvania AA Southwest Regional held at...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com While several teams have failed in their attempt to topple highly ranked IUP this season, the blueprint for defeating the Crimson Hawks can evidently be found in Cal...

By Jeff Oliver For the MV Independent Vincentian coach Tim Tyree accomplished a rarity last season.   He won a WPIAL Class A title in his first year as a varsity head coach. Let that sink in. Yet, to ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Thousands of Mon Valley residents were without power Sunday as wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour swept through the area. The high winds caused building damage, u...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Penn State Greater Allegheny’s chancellor and chief academic officer Dr. Jacqueline Edmondson has been working to strengthen relations between the McKeesport campus an...