By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A number of students from the Mon Valley will be in the spotlight this weekend as they share the stage with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during its “Blo...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com At least one element of the lawsuits filed on behalf of the parishioners of two former area churches is being allowed to move forward. A panel of Commonwealth C...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@your.mvi.com “I’m running to go to my husband because they’re attacking him and I thought they were going to kill him,” Michelle Harris testified Wednesday as she described h...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com There is officially a new assistant police chief in the City of McKeesport. Mayor Michael Cherepko announced during Wednesday’s council meeting that Mark Steele, who w...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com When the conductor calls for “instruments up” at McKeesport Area High School on Friday, students from four different area school districts will prepare themselves to p...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the MVI New Eagle council appointed a new member Tuesday night. Following a unanimous vote, resident Dennis Walters was appointed to the vacant two-year seat. Walters, who has ...

Rita A. Fisher, 94, of Swissvale, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. She was born on Dec. 16, 1925, in Braddock and was the daughter of the late Davide and Elvira Petrilli Russo. She was the wife of the late...

Jack Harris, 78, of Irwin, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. He was born in McKeesport on Sept. 13, 1941, the son of the late Martha L. Kinling Harris. He was employed from the former Carbidie which was lat...

Blanche J. Losey, 88, of Rostraver Township, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born April 16, 1931 in Monongahela, the daughter of Edward and Marjorie Wilson Mellor. ...

Evelyn M. Manown, 93, of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. A daughter of the late Frank and Teresa Vizza Parise, she was born in Belle Vernon on June 1, 1926. A lifelo...

Christopher Alan Ornot, 36, of Belle Vernon, died suddenly at home on Jan. 18, 2020. He was born in Monongahela, on June 16, 1983, to Philip J. Ornot Sr. and Teresa Angelo and spent most of his life l...

Ronald A. Pacy, 84, of Monessen, passed away at home on Feb. 4, 2020. He was born in Donora, Sept. 23, 1935, son of the late Premo and Dolores Bachetti Pacy. Ron was a member of the St. Andrew the Apo...

John A. Rach, 85, formerly of Charleroi, passed away on Feb. 4, 2020, at his home in Somerset, Pa. John was born in Pittsburgh on Aug. 19, 1934, the son of the late Ferdinand and Madeline Klaus Rach. ...

Betty L. Harger Swaney, 92, of Monessen, died Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, in Havencrest Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Monongahela. She was born Aug. 10, 1927, in Belle Vernon, a daughter of the late...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Multiple eyewitnesses testified Tuesday that they believed Troy Harris was dead in the minutes after he was attacked by members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club last...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Area legislators are both hopeful and frustrated regarding Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2020-21 budget proposal — but all are ready to get to work. Wolf, who delivered his annual...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Residents of a Donora personal care home with a history of violations awakened Tuesday to learn they would have new accommodations after the home was ordered...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Symphonic wind ensemble students at Elizabeth Forward High School have been learning that even professionals need to practice the fundamentals. The students hav...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the MV Independent Carroll Township supervisors appointed Ken Hillman to fill the vacancy left open with the Jan. 25 death of Supervisor James "Don" Harrison.   Board Chairman ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com With reports of the emerging coronavirus — also called 2019-nCoV — making its way from China to the U.S. within the past week, residents in the Mon Valley ma...