By Joe sabolek For the Mon Valley Independent Despite a slow start, Dax Thomas State Farm was able to set up a Wednesday evening showdown with AMD Industries for first place in the J. Budd Grebb Memor...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com In more ways than one, Brian Dzurenda has watched the Serra Catholic cross country program grow since its inception in 2014.   This past season, the veteran head coa...

James W. Stockett, 72, of Bruceton Mills, W.Va., formerly of Rostraver, died peacefully at his home on July 4, 2019. He was the loving husband of Catherine Dianne Stockett, his wife of 53 years, who h...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Ava Henderson went to Monday’s Grebb League basketball game to cheer on her older sister Leena. They are from Fallowfield Township

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A 92-year-old woman died Monday after a fire inside her Donora Towers apartment. Emergency crews were called to the senior high rise on Meldon Avenue at 7:43 a.m....

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport man who was on the U.S. Marshals Pittsburgh Office Top 20 list of fugitives for more than a year will have a preliminary hearing next week after being app...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man is accused of assaulting a police officer following a domestic incident at his residence early Friday morning. James Crusan, 43, of Fourth Street is ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State police have charged a White Oak man who allegedly shared child pornography via the Internet. Jeffery Vincent Khoury, 39, of Glass Street, used BitTorrent on Apri...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Five Belle Vernon Area teachers received permanent professional contracts at Monday’s school board meeting. Lorie Fowler, Alessandra Perri, Angela Musto, Jason Scott...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport man was sentenced in federal court Monday to 30 months’ imprisonment and six years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy and possession wi...

By Emily Bennett ebennett@yourmvi.com Mike Medved will be the first to tell you he wears many hats. Country music singer-songwriter, former professional basketball player, teacher, graphic designer, h...

Frances Theodosea Wascznick, 98, of Vineland, N.J., went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at Inspira Medical Center, Vineland. Frances was born in Belle Vernon, to the late John and Jo...

By Emily Bennett ebennett@yourmvi.com New charges have filed and an arrest warrant has been issued for a second suspect in a February robbery in which $38,000 was allegedly taken from a truck followin...

Lorraine Babich, 84, of Jefferson Township, Fayette City, passed away Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Uniontown at the residence of her caregiver, Vicki Seftas. She was born Sept. 17, 1934, in Jefferson T...

Eleanor Bajoczky, 101, passed on to be with her Lord early Friday morning, July 19, 2019. She was born on Sept. 15, 1917, in Belle Vernon, Pa., to Bill and Alice Hammitt, and everyone in her family wo...

Stephen J. Fedorka, 80, of Champion, died Friday, July 19, 2019, at his home. He was born Dec. 11, 1938, in Floreffe, Pa., son of the late Steven and Marie Vavra Fedorka. Steve was a veteran of the Ar...

Jean Greaves, 89, of Point Pleasant Retirement Community, formerly of White Oak, died Saturday, July 20, 2019. She is the daughter of the late Robert Elsworth and Olive Sigler Shallenberger and was bo...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Lilly Hill, 8, of Rostraver Township and Sydney Stark, 11, of Rostraver Township look at the tomato plants at the Rostraver Public Library.

By EMILY BENNETT ebennett@yourmvi.com Disgruntled business owners and Rostraver Township representatives will finally see progress made on the years-long sinkhole and flooding problem located off Rout...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Much of the Mon Valley was under flash-flood warnings Sunday night and emergency services were kept busy. Crews began getting called out as a strong thunderstorm ...