By ADAM BREWER For the MV Independent Last year, Charleroi posted its biggest win of the season by blasting conference rival Washington, 64-33. The Prexies gained revenge Friday night by scoring the f...

By JEREMY TEPPER For the MV Independent Elizabeth Forward coach Mike Collodi didn’t yell at his team at halftime. In some cases a 7-0 deficit and a half rife with mistakes might be cause for a chewing...

By ASHLEY CHASE For the MV Independent A single Friday night donut leads to dozens on Sunday morning. That’s what happens when Belle Vernon Area’s defense keeps the opponent off the board like it did ...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Thomas Jefferson didn’t waste its opportunities to put points on the board Friday night.   Especially in the first quarter.   The Jaguars collected 41 points in the ...

By Jason Black For the MV Independent A week after beating Uniontown, the Connellsville football team couldn’t sustain its momentum and was beaten in nearly all facets of a 52-0 loss to McKeesport Fri...

By dean dellamalva jr. For the Mon Valley Independent Brentwood’s ground attack took over Friday night as the Spartans posted a 19-7 win over South Allegheny in their Three Rivers Conference opener Qu...

By the Mon Valley Independent The duo of Jayvon Campbell-Holt and Ray Holmes combined to rush for nearly 200 yards and three touchdowns in Serra Catholic’s 33-14 win over Ellwood City in nonconference...

By JAMIE RANKIN For the MV Independent For about half of the first quarter, Friday’s Interstate Conference opener between Frazier and host Southmoreland looked like it was going to be a shootout. Then...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com “Music, good food, barbecue sauce, community and celebrating hardworking men and women.” That’s what Roberta Williams, one of the chefs cooking at the Robbie’s Ribs bo...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com When the Charleroi Little Great Race takes place next Saturday, four-month-old Layla Hynes will have just completed her eighth round of chemotherapy — and she will h...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area Middle School auditorium was bursting with color Friday afternoon during a kick-off event for the second annual Color Run. Charleroi Area Middle S...

By JIM BUSCH   For the MV Independent McKeesport residents will be able to meet some of the most interesting people in their city’s history.   From noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 21-22, costumed historical inte...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The statewide School Safety and Security Committee has endorsed a plan by Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, to create a subcommittee to explore the development of basel...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A Belle Vernon man is being held at the Westmoreland County Prison without bail after being arrested by state police for failing to register as a sex offender. ...

Louise W. Blair, 93, of Bradenton, Fla., formerly of Monongahela, died Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, at Westminster Point Place Health Center in Bradenton, Fla. She was born July 15, 1926, in Butler, a daugh...

Donna L. Boyles, 80, of Belle Vernon, passed away on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. Daughter of the late Edward and Dolores Heintz Dzaack, she was born in Pittsburgh on April 4, 1939. A resident of Belle Vern...

Charles Robert Guiler Jr., 74, of Roscoe, died Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, at his home surrounded by his family. He was born in Charleroi on Oct. 11, 1944, son of the late Charles Robert and Henrietta Br...

Lenora M. “Lee” Koch, 93, formerly of Belle Vernon, passed away Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, in St. Barnabas Nursing Home in Gibsonia.  A daughter of the late John and Jessie Phelps Malone, Lee was born in ...

Marlene M. O’Toole, 83, of North Versailles, formerly of West Mifflin, died Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. She was born in Homestead, on July 20, 1936, the daughter of the late Stephen and Margaret Gretz Nova...

Alyssa May Shemasek, 30, of Monongahela, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. She was born March 8, 1989, in Monongahela, daughter of the late Andrew Bly Shemasek and Lisa Denise Ta...