By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Washington County District Attorney’s Office is looking to remove a Mon Valley Sewage Authority Board member convicted of defrauding a retired woman earlier this...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Lights, camera, action — Mc-Keesport is once again the setting for a motion picture production. Pittsburgh Film Office Director Dawn Keezer confirmed Friday that Amazo...

WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — An eastern Georgia industrial plant will close by the end of 2020, laying off up to 200 workers. General Electric Co. tells local media it will close its high-voltage electrical...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Residents in Pleasant Hills will soon see improvements to the Pleasant Hills Boulevard pedestrian bridge. This week, state Sen. Pam Iovino, D-Mt. Lebanon, an...

Walter “Woch” Cieply, 90, of Monessen, died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, in The Residence at Hilltop. He was born on Aug. 31, 1929, in Monessen, the son of the late Teofil and Anna Cieply. He was a member...

Frank R. Cominsky, 67, of Monongahela, died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. He was born October 24, 1952 in New Eagle, the son of the late Frank William and Marjorie Ann McNau...

James A. “Jumbo” Myrga, 79, of Newell, passed away Thursday, Nov. 15, 2019, at Havencrest Nursing Center, Caroll Township. He was born July 24, 1940, in Newell, son of Andrew Myrga and Elizabeth Alber...

Susan Diane Natali, 72, of Webster, died Friday, Nov. 15, 2019.  Born in Charleroi on Sept. 10, 1947, she was the daughter of the late Steve and Margaret Androsko Turkovich. Diane was the manager of t...

Della E. Regal, 88, Fayette City, passed away Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Mt. Macrina Manor, Uniontown. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by the ELEY/MCCRORY FUNE...

Constance “Connie” J. Sadler, 81, of Charleroi, died Thursday, Nov.14, 2019, in Ohio Valley Hospital. She was born on Sept. 26, 1938, in Monessen, the daughter of the late Joseph and Tressa DeRose Spa...

Robert L. “Bob” Johnson Sr., 78, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at Select Specialty Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, after a courageous four-year battle with cancer. Born in Monongahela on April 1...

Shirley May Adams Rodgers was born on March 12, 1927, and passed away peacefully on Nov. 12, 2019, in Charleroi. Shirley was the daughter of Edward and Lillian Denike Adams. She was born at home in De...

Delmer Roscoe Keller, of Charleroi, formerly of Jones Mills, passed away Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. He is survived by his wife, Bessie L. Keller; his children, Delmer Roscoe “Rocky” Keller Jr. of Bokeeli...

By Jeff Oliver MVI Sports Three weeks ago, Mc-Keesport played Gateway and got clobbered, 38-7. Tonight, the two conference rivals will meet again in a WPIAL 5A semifinal game at Greensburg Salem with ...

By Jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com For four regular season games, Belle Vernon Area senior Hunter Ruokonen stood on the sideline and simply watched.   That’s all he could do after dislocating and chip...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Crystal Smith, coordinator of the CRR program at SPHS, talks to Mathew Eddy of Belle Vernon during Thursday’s Thanksgiving dinner at Riverside Place in Charlero...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com With early signs of winter being felt across the Mid-Mon Valley, residents and officials of the Five-Town Region — at least four of them — are hoping for a snowball ...

By Kristie Linden klinden@yourmvi.com Donora council hired a borough administrator at Thursday’s meeting despite a battle about how the vote came up. At the end of the written agenda, Councilman John ...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com An old saying states “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” But don’t tell that to the approximately 25 military veterans who were treated to lunch by the ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport firefighters and an Allegheny County Hazardous Materials crew responded to a small chlorine leak at the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County’s McKeesp...