By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com One team is fresh off what its head coach thought was its best performance of the season while the other is coming off an upset for its first playoff victory in near...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area administrators and school board members celebrated the career and leadership of a woman who has served the school district for 45 years, first as a tea...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com William Penn Elementary students got a special visit from a furry friend during school Wednesday. Forward Township police Chief Travis Stoffer and Elizabe...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Six people will battle for one of five seats up for grabs on the Belle Vernon Area School Board. Four incumbents will contest two newcomers, and of the in...

Julia A. Brandeburg, 92, of Charleroi, passed away on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, at Cambridge Hillside, North Charleroi. Born in Homestead on July 22, 1927, she was the daughter of the late Rocco and Anto...

Ida G. Fawcett New Eagle Ida G. Fawcett, 99, of New Eagle, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Donnell House Hospice Center, Washington. Born May 20, 1920 in Donora, she was the daughter of Charles and Ge...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After not getting much respect when it came to the preseason predictions in Section 3-3A, the Belle Vernon Area boys are one of only two teams still playing soccer...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports When Charleroi goes up against Shady Side Academy in today’s WPIAL 2A boys soccer quarterfinal game at Plum, the game will feature a battle of strengths. The fifth-seeded Cou...

By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports Before the match even started, South Allegheny volleyball coach Jack Kelley sensed his team’s youth and lack of postseason experience might be its undoing. Early on Tuesday...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Max Vorderbrueggen, 6, of Rostraver Township helps his little brother Eli with a puzzle Tuesday afternoon at Rostraver Public Library.

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A Prosperity man is being held without bond at the Washington County Prison in connection with an April attack on a former member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com All year long, Dayna Zajack proudly displays a pink license plate in the window of her car that reads, “Survivor.” During October, which is recognized as Breast Canc...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Joseph Gudac is officially a Charleroi Cougar. The Brownsville native was unanimously hired as the district’s business manager at Tuesday night’s meeting.   Board me...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Plans are brewing for a student-run coffee shop inside Belle Vernon Area High School.   Principal Dr. Michael Sable and assistant principal Heath Curran a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Area Revitalization Corporat held its annual town hall meeting Monday night and this year it featured a candidates forum for those running for may...

William Ray Coulter, 37, of Monongahela, Forward Township, died unexpectedly Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, at Washington Hospital. He was born Feb. 17, 1982, in Wheeling, W.Va., the son of Thomas C. and Beve...

Forrest R. McKenna, 83, died in his home in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. He was born on Jan. 14, 1936, in North Charleroi, son of the late Francis McKenna and Mary Kistler McKenna....

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Area children sat down Monday for a special story time with police at the Monessen Public Library. The first Cookies and Milk with a Cop event attracted a handful of...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi firefighters and borough street workers were joined by state Department of Environmental Protection crews Monday to control a gas leak that has caused gaso...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Company has been recertified as one of 12 Swiftwater Type 2A rescue teams in Pennsylvania and is now working toward becoming a 1A c...