By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com This year might be remembered by most people for coronavirus, school closings, business shutdowns and empty sports stadiums. But Angela Beck will remember 20...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports It was not the debut season head coach Andrew Dyson and the South Allegheny girls soccer team wanted. The 2019 season ended with few wins, low numbers and several inj...

Blanche A. “Tiny” Tyree Patterson of Donora, was ushered by angels into eter-nal life on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, at the age of 71. She was born in Donora on Feb. 6, 1949, the daughter of the late Dani...

Former McKeesport resident Rudy Eugene Richardson, 84, of White Oak, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, at the Canterbury Place Hospice in Lawrence- ville. He was born in the Bron...

Carol Storez, 87, of West Newton, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in Mon Valley Hospital. She was born Nov. 10, 1932, daughter of William and Bertha Miller. She was an active member of Christ Lutheran C...

Bert C. Shaposka, 82, of Youngstown, Ohio, formerly of California, Pa., died Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. He was born Thursday, Jan. 20, 1938, in Brownsville, son of the late Alexander and Grace Hormell Sh...

Phyllis Pauline Tabron, 68, of Charleroi, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. She was born Sunday, Dec. 30, 1951, in Charleroi, daughter of the late Samuel D. and Nancy Lombardo Allshouse. Phyllis retired fr...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Two Fallowfield Township girls have found a new way to stay busy ­­— and help others cool off — during the coronavirus pandemic. Charlee Wagner and her long-time fri...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Students and staff members at area career and technical centers are used to thinking on their feet to come up with practical solutions to real world problems — ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com California Area School District students attending school in-person for the 2020-21 school year are heading back to the classroom Aug. 26 under the “Yellow Phase” of t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com With California University of Pennsylvania opting to go fully virtual for the fall semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many student apartments are sitting va...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports It was quite the coaching debut last season for Jack Kelley at South Allegheny. In a record-setting year for Gladiator sports in general, the volleyball team also mad...

By JONATHAN GUTH MVI Sports First-year head coach Jess Britt sees a great deal of individual talent on her California soccer squad, but the former Trojan wants to see her team put it all together when...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A North Charleroi man is behind bars for his involvement in a violent kidnapping earlier this year when a man was taken from a Pricedale home and tortured inside of ...

Dianna Lynn Valentin, 49, of Monessen, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. She was born July 18, 1971, in Natrona Heights, to Sandra and Randy Griffith Sr. She was the wife of Richard Va...

Six-year-old Jeremy Hughes of Smithton plays on the swings at Cedar Creek Park.

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com To say the Charleroi boys soccer team lost a bulk of its scoring due to graduation could be an understatement. The program’s all-time leading scorer Cullin Woytovi...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Boys soccer players at Elizabeth Forward have been battle tested playing under head coach Doug Finke over the last three seasons.   Younger players received valuable...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area School District students will start the school year virtually next month. Superintendent Dr. Ed Zelich announced his new recommendation for the beginn...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com When the Monessen Lions Club heard the city’s police department needed a little help, its members didn’t need much time to think about it — they jumped at the cha...