Joan L. Pesi, 77, of Fallowfield Township, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born May 15, 1942, in North Charle- roi, the daughter of the late Henry and Mary “Kesma...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak drew a standing- room-only crowd for Monday’s meeting as about three dozen animal lovers came to ask council to take steps to change an ordinance concerning ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Property owners in North Charleroi Borough will be seeing an increase under the new tax ordinance adopted by council. The 2020 budget was reopened and a 1.3 mil...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Area business are teaming up to help veterans in need. Nearly a dozen businesses across the Mon Valley are participating in a winner-take-all fundraiser to benefit t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com It may look like fun and games when students use i- Pads, robots and 3-D printers in the classroom. But to Dr. Todd Keruskin it looks like the education of the ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Two men who are already being held at area jails were charged Monday with criminal homicide in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found last Se...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Late in Monday’s WPIAL Class 4A first-round game, Belle Vernon Area seemed like they were about to snatch the momentum.   A Rachel Wobrak basket just cut Freeport’...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports All season long, the McKeesport girls basketball team wreaked havoc on the glass thanks to the play of Jhayla Bray.   The senior went over the 1,000 mark in both poin...

By ASHLEY CHASE MVI Sports Down to the final buzzer, a game that McKeesport trailed by double-digits throughout, ended in thrilling but heartbreaking fashion.   The No. 5 Tigers bowed out of the openi...

By jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com The Thomas Jefferson girls basketball team enters the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs riding a five-game winning streak.   Sound familiar?   The Jaguars took the same winnin...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com The Thomas Jefferson girls soccer program has a new leader.   Sean Richter was unanimously hired by the West Jefferson Hills school board during a meeting Jan. 28. R...

Julie Ann Clark Richie, 81, of Monessen, passed away Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. Born Dec. 9, 1938, in Cincinnati, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Cliffo...

By STACY WOLFORD swolford@yourmvi.com As a young boy growing up in his tiny village on the Greek island of Chios, Meletios Gianniodis listened with wide eyes as his grandmother told him stories of a “...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora council expressed concern last week over a proposed skate park and the way fundraising started for a project that isn’t approved. Chantal Bey, who founded ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com After teaching himself the blacksmithing trade, Andrew Takach is opening his workshop to other Mon Valley residents who might be interested. Takach, a West Newton re...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A civil suit has been filed against Geibel Junior Senior High School, its principal and two male students, alleging that one of those students attempted to sexu...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@tribweb.com A Uniontown area woman was hurt after her vehicle went off the road and into the woods in Rostraver Township early Sunday morning, authorities said. Rostraver p...

By DAN PALM MVI Sports Frazier’s Thayne Lawrence made history Saturday, becoming only the 29th wrestler to win four WPIAL championships, dating back to the 1930s. Lawrence, a Lehigh recruit, also won ...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Eighth-seeded Serra Catholic got off to a scorching start in their WPIAL first-round playoff game at Peters Township Saturday, jumping out to a seven-point lead af...

By ASHLEY CHASE MVI Sports The Monessen boys basketball team never quite found its rhythm in a rock fight of a basketball game Saturday against Union. The Scotties ended the Greyhounds’ season with a ...