Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Brenda Jamison, second from left, celebrates with Clairton girls basketball players, from left, Taylor Jackson, Iyauna Chapman and Mya Norman after the Bears de...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Carroll Township police Chief Paul Brand said it is hard to find the right words to describe how disturbed he is that someone burglarized the homes of Craven Plan resi...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Judith L. Fisher is being remembered as a “perennial candidate,” most recently running for office last year when she sought to become the Washington County Regi...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Boy Scouts of America Laurel Highlands Council announced this week it does not anticipate the national organization’s bankruptcy filing to “have any direct impact ...

y ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com West Jefferson Hills Historical Society will celebrate “Happy Birthday, George & Abe!” at 1 p.m. today.   The society will commemorate the birthdays of presid...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Heinz History Center’s We Can Do It! WWII traveling exhibit is in its fourth weekend at Donora Public Library with two speaking events on the schedule for tod...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com It wasn’t the type of game Clairton head coach Carlton Wade wanted to see, but he’ll take a trip to the WPIAL Class A semifinals any day.   The fourth-seeded Bears o...

By Adam Brewer MVI Sports After an inconsistent first half, Thomas Jefferson needed somebody to step up Friday in the second half of its WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal matchup against section rival West ...

By jeff oliver MVI Sports When Michael Bright helped organize fundraising efforts for the Brick City (N.Y.) Lions football team to play in the Pop Warner Youth Football championship tournament (ages 1...

Evelyn Resnik Finleyville Evelyn Resnik, 93, of Finleyville, died Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, at Mon Valley Care Center in Carroll Township. She was born Dec. 24, 1926, in Courtney, a daughter of John and ...

Elizabeth Ann ‘Betty’ Miske Smereczniak Belle Vernon It is with great sadness that our beloved mom, Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Miske Smereczniak, went home to Jesus on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, at the age of ...

Mildred Marie Gessner (née Boyer) Mt. Lebanon, Formerly of Elizabeth Mildred Marie Gessner (née Boyer), went to her heavenly resting place on Feb. 19, 2020. She was born on Sept. 23, 1928, in Elizabet...

Fred Harris Bryden ANIWA, WIS. Fred Harris Bryden Jr. died Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, at the home of his daughter, Juanita Thomas, while under the care of Ascension at Home Hospice. He was 84 years old...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com The Serra Catholic girls basketball team looked like a group that was focused and determined to advance in the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs Thursday night.   The top-seed...

By Jeremy Tepper MVI Sports As a smaller, thin guard, Bryce Epps has had to fine-tune his game with crafty layups and floaters to outsmart bigger defenders. So when the ball careened off the rim and i...

By DAN PALM MVI Sports This will be a big weekend for local high school wrestlers, as 14 of them will compete in the PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional aiming to advance to the state championships in He...

By jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Over the course of a two-week layoff, the Thomas Jefferson boys basketball team has been hard at work.   Head coach Dom DeCicco said his team has played in a number ...

By Bill Beckner Trib Total Media Viva Kreis is becoming a regular around the pro basketball scene. Just a freshman at Belle Vernon, Kreis spent a few days in Chicago for NBA All-Star Weekend, rubbing ...

MIke Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent South Allegheny’s Antonio Epps celebrates with his younger brother, Reese, after the Gladiators won Thursday’s playoff game on a last-second shot.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A more than 100-year-old brick sewer line on the ArcelorMittal Mill property in Monessen collapsed this week and opened a sinkhole 35 feet deep and 60 feet long. ...