Tour targets Monessen ‘nuclear’ fears
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com In an effort to quell some of the rumors surrounding the former Monessen Municipal Complex, representatives of its new owner stopped by the city Thursday.   Best Med...
Route 906 won’t reopen soon as conditions get worse
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Route 906 between Belle Vernon and Fayette City will remain blocked to through traffic for the foreseeable future.   A portion of the road has been shut down for mor...
Murder charge filed after woman’s body is located near White Oak
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com It took two months and several witnesses, but Allegheny County Police found the remains of a Dravosburg woman who was likely murdered in November. The body found ...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A precautionary boil-water advisory that has been in effect for residents of Port Vue and McKeesport’s Upper 10th Ward since Tuesday has been lifted. The Municipal Aut...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By Jeff stitt jstitt@yourmvi.com When PurePenn, a medical marijuana company, moved its processing and distribution facility into the RIDC Industrial Center of McKeesport in 2017, CEO Gabe Perlow quote...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By Megan Guza A McKeesport woman who declared, “I’m sick of him,” after she stabbed her boyfriend to death in a South Side apartment building will spend at least 7½ years in prison, a judge ruled Thur...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Monongahela man is accused of possessing several devices that contained child pornography. Christopher A. Maguda, 37, of Thomas Street, is charged with child porno...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man accused of entering a Washington Avenue residence earlier this month and waving a machete has been ordered to stand trial in Washington County Court....
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2019
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania American Water this week announced that applications are being accepted for its 2019 Stream of Learning Scholarship. The program, which is in its 10th yea...
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2019
Lavina “Viney” Ackinclose, 99, of Jefferson Township, Fayette City, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in Country Care Manor, surrounded by her family. She was born Aug. 9, 1919, in Lowber, Fayette...
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January 24, 2019
Jeannetta F. Turner, 87, of Coal Center, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Dunlevy Gardens Personal Care Home. A daughter of the late Ezra and Evelyn Baldridge Roberts, she was bo...
McKeesport High School principal Bauman retiring
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 24, 2019
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Following Wednesday’s school board meeting, McKeesport Area Superintendent Dr. Mark Holtzman quashed rumors that the high school principal was forced to retire. During...
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 24, 2019
By the Mon Valley Independent The remains of a murdered Dravosburg woman were found in Sewickley Township Wednesday. Allegheny County police identified Dale Cooper, 36, as the man who allegedly murder...
Car crashes into Carroll Township home
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 24, 2019
By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A woman crashed her vehicle into a home along north state Route 88 in Carroll Township on Wednesday afternoon. Carroll Township Police Chief Paul Brand said the acci...
Logo unveiled for Monongahela’s 250th anniversary celebration
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 24, 2019
By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Preparations for the City of Monongahela’s 250th anniversary are in full swing. Members of the Monongahela 250 nonprofit organization hosted an informational meeting...
2 men, 6 animals removed from ‘filthy’ Liberty home
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By Stacy Wolford 
January 24, 2019
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com “The house was filthy. It was uninhabitable. There was no heat and no water. It was absolutely deplorable conditions.” That is how Liberty borough police Lt. Ray Johns...
By Jeremy Sellew 
January 23, 2019
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com No Payne, no problem for the Monessen Greyhounds. The Monessen boys basketball team played without their big man inside, but didn’t change one detail of their game...
BVA girls hold off Laurel Highlands
By Jeremy Sellew 
January 23, 2019
By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com From the time the ball was tipped off to the time the final horn went off, Belle Vernon Area girls basketball coach Ronnie Drennen noticed a nonexistent energy from ...
Valerie June Villella Clark – Monongahela
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By obits 
January 23, 2019
Valerie June Villella Clark, of Monongahela, passed away suddenly in her home on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, at the age of 58. She was born in New Haven, Conn., on July 7, 1960. She was a graduate of North...