By Beth Hope-Cushey For the Mon Valley Independent Glassport Council president Elaina Skiba urged residents to defer complaints concerning the condition of West Fifth Avenue to the City of McKeesport....

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com One day after three Belle Vernon Area School Board members resigned, the acting superintendent accepted a job at Ringgold. Dr. Michele Dowell has served as acting...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com South Allegheny’s administration is officially searching for a new chief for the district-run police force. School board president Shawn DeVerse and directors Pete Mil...

A group of Mon Valley student performers will take the stage — among some of the best musicians in Pittsburgh — this weekend at Heinz Hall. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will be performing “A Nigh...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com With the weather outside cold and wet, the Ringgold boys basketball team got their workout inside the confines of Henry J. Furrie Sports Complex at Gateway High Sc...

By JEREMY TEPPER For the MV Independent Joe Salvino isn’t accustomed to taking moral victories. Having won over 600 games, and making the playoffs in 30-plus years in a row at his previous job at Mone...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Shortly after roaming the sideline during his team’s 59-29 WPIAL first round victory over Sto-Rox Friday night, Serra Catholic head coach Bill Cleary took a seat in ...

By JEFF OLIVER For the Mon Valley Independent The Monessen Greyhounds have been such a mainstay in the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs, it’s often been said that the playoffs are part of the team’s reg...

Rita Costa “Lala” Cairns, 73, of Coal Center, formerly of Monongahela, died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, in her home. Born Dec. 9, 1945, in McKeesport, she was the daughter of the late Harry and Sarah Spen...

Helen J. Dudgeon, 95, of Lynnwood, Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, in her home. A daughter of the late Harrison and Myrtle King Abbott, she was born in Stearns, Ky....

LaVerne M. Seidling, 87, of North Strabane Township, formerly of Rostraver Township, died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. She was born in McKeesport, on July 28, 1931. LaVerne was a former member of the Churc...

A loyal Charleroi native, Steven Theodore Stetz, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of Feb. 16, 2019, in Ocala, Fla. Following an automobile accident on Nov. 26, 2018, Steven finally ga...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Audience members at Tuesday’s Belle Vernon Area school board meeting were stunned as board President Lou Rood announced that three directors had submitted letters of r...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A landslide on Route 906 between Belle Vernon and Fayette City is still on the move.   A portion of the road has been shut down since May 15 following a rockslide. A...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Police are searching for a Mc-Keesport man who was allegedly in possession of a gun that was owned by a man who failed to report it stolen. Zackary Everett Goodwin, 31...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Carroll Township police posted a message to their new Facebook account asking for help in finding a wanted man, and the tips led officers to three other wanted pe...

By Natasha Lindstrom A car crashed over a hillside and into a creek in Mc-Keesport Tuesday night, spurring a rescue operation in an attempt to pull at least two people to safety, initial reports indic...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A longtime Donora mayor is being honored as the library kicks its $1.5 million fundraising campaign into full gear.   Relatives of former Mayor Albert P. Delsandr...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A New Eagle man accused of striking his neighbor with a baseball bat over the weekend has been released from the Washington County Correctional Facility after postin...

By Rich Cholodofsky A Westmoreland County judge Tuesday rejected a defense bid to have the case dismissed against a Monessen man charged with conspiracy in connection with a 2017 shooting. Defense att...