By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com A registered sex offender from Jefferson Hills is wanted for allegedly restraining and attempting to rape a 15-year-old boy in Carroll Township. Carroll T...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A North Charleroi mother and daughter are accused of drug possession after an alleged heroin overdose at their home in September.   Charleroi Regional Police Officer...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com For the first 65 minutes of its WPIAL first-round playoff game, the Belle Vernon Area girls soccer team was a mess.   Frustration was setting in and Ambridge’s sto...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Despite watching them win 16 games along with a Section 2-A championship during the regular season, Bentworth head coach Tyler Hamstra figured he’d see his group tak...

By zack zeigler MVI Sports Thomas Jefferson advanced to the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals by defeating Montour, 2-1, in a first-round matchup Monday night.   After being eliminated in the first round l...

By BILL BECKNER For the MV Independent A lot has been made of the Yough girls soccer team’s high-toned offensive skills. The Cougars can find the net with the best of them. But coach Dann Appolonia wi...

By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports Brandon Gerba has a mantra he often repeats to his team about every game, “You either win or you learn.”   Monday’s game fell into the learning category for Elizabeth Forwa...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports It’s hard to find silver linings when your team gets shut out and beaten handily in the first round of the playoffs.   There was, however, an astounding performance f...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Tenth-seeded Serra Catholic picked up an upset win by edging No. 7 South Side Beaver, 1-0, in the first round of the WPIAL Class A playoffs Monday night at West Alle...

Dino J. “Diz” Bizzozero, 61, of Elizabeth, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, at Jefferson Hospital. He was a general maintenance worker for Brightside Academy in McKeesport. He was a member of B...

My dear mother, Jane Elizabeth Morton Foster, was called to heaven on Aug. 13, 2019. She was born on May 12, 1930, in New Eagle, to Joseph and Mary Fitch Morton. She grew up in the neighboring town of...

John “Jack” Malcolm Francis MacDonald, 92, of Elizabeth Township, died Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. He was born in McKeesport on Dec. 24, 1926 and is the son of the late Archibald John and Elizabeth Kraus M...

Mary A. Penick, of Dawson, passed away on Oct. 17, 2019, at the Riverside Care Center of McKeesport. She was born Feb. 11, 1958, a daughter of the late Dwayne and Virginia DiMichele Byron Sr. Mary enj...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com “We’ve come too far. We’ve been through too much. Our team is too special for this to be over.” That was the message Belle Vernon Area head coach Rob Miele shared on...

By Dan Palm MVI Sports The Charleroi boys soccer team was an offensive juggernaut during the regular season, outscoring their opponents, 143-17.   Players such as Cullin Woytovich, Eben McIntyre and J...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com It wasn’t the result Serra Catholic head coach Chad Bruns was seeking.   But the effort was something he surely could be proud of.   The No. 13 Eagles battled all af...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Charleroi residents who live on or around McKean Avenue are being urged to ventilate their homes if they smell gasoline inside them. Fire Chief Robert Whiten Jr. said ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport Unit of the NAACP held its annual Freedom Dinner recently, honoring two Mon Valley residents, along with a community organization and an area business. ...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com October is usually decked out in pink ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but it is also designated with a purple ribbon for Domestic Violence Awar...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Over the past 46 years, Monongahela has had four mayors, myriad council members, two city halls and one Carole Foglia.   After all these years, Carole, the longti...