By Beth Hope-Cushey For the Mon Valley Independent New Eagle’s public works department will have to keep a daily work log for council’s review in 2019.   Council approved a motion by George Tirpak for...

Rockin’ on the Mon has become a summer tradition at the Monongahela Aquatorium, but that annual concert series and other events at the venue may be in jeopardy. Monongahela Aquatorium Innovations, the...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com A strong second half and staying the course helped Southmoreland pull away from Ringgold for a critical Section 3-4A road win Thursday in local girls basketball ac...

By ZACK ZEIGLER For the MV Independent Elizabeth Forward head girls basketball coach Krystal Gibbs has been waiting for her team to put things together offensively.   On Thursday, the Warriors finally...

By the Mon Valley Independent The Belle Vernon Area girls basketball team continues to be one of the hottest in the area as the Leopards rolled to their seventh straight win Thursday and remained tied...

Betty M. Barella, 95, of Rostraver Township, passed away at home on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Born Feb. 3, 1923, in Roscoe, she was a daughter of the late Alfred and Teresa Lucas Malmgren. The co-owner ...

Vernon DeMillion, 93, of Monessen, passed away peacefully from this life on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, after a gradual decline in health. He was born on July 21, 1925, to the late John and Ruth Fohner De...

George C. Edwards, 93, of California, Pa., died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. He was born Monday, Jan. 12, 1925, in California, Pa., a son of the late George H. Edwards and the late Mary Humes Edwards. Geo...

Lorraine Mullen, 74, of Donora, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born Aug. 30, 1944, in North Charleroi, the daughter of John and Mary Halushka Rock Sr.​ Lorraine ...

By taylor brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man accused of smashing his girlfriend’s head into the wall and assaulting her while she was holding her 3-year-old toddler on New Year’s Eve has been re...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko fought back tears at Wednesday’s council meeting as he announced police Chief Bryan J. Washowich will be retiring next month. “He jus...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Smithton man accused of attacking police after fleeing the scene of a Washington Township vehicle accident is in jail. Joseph Michael Ballough, 36, of Skyline Driv...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com State police on Wednesday released its statewide enforcement statistics for the New Year’s holiday weekend. Troop B, which encompasses Allegheny, Fayette and Washing...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi borough may have a multi-million dollar decision to make in 2019: To sell or not to sell the Authority of the Borough of Charleroi. Last month, Councilman ...

By DAN PALM For the MV Independent Elizabeth Forward may have dominated Frazier in its Class 2A Section 3B matchup last night, but Thayne Lawrence gave the Commodores home crowd a couple highlights in...

Eva Giannini, 99, of Charleroi, died on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, in Mon Valley Hospital. Born in Monessen on Sept. 21, 1919, she was the daughter of the late Andrew and Mary Galuppo. She was a member of...

Laura M. Pankiewicz, 94, of Belle Vernon, died Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 in Westmoreland Manor. Born in Fairhope, on May 6, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Steve and Helen Dobosh. A homemaker, Laur...

We’re sad to announce the passing of Ronald “Chub” Podwika. He went home to be with the Lord surrounded by his family on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. Born Oct. 8, 1937, Ronald just recently moved to New Ber...

Maureen L. Dale, 92, of Rostraver Township, died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018.  Born in Ferndale, Wales, United Kingdom, on Nov. 18, 1926, she was the daughter of the late James Gerald and Catherine Murray L...

John M. “Jack” Fawcett Sr., 90, of Monongahela, died peacefully at home on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018. Jack was a long-term employee of U.S. Steel, retiring from the Clairton Works in August 1991 after 27 ...