By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com After losing to Dax Thomas State Farm in the regular season finale last week, Monessen Florist head coach Chad Carroto didn’t lose any sense of confidence in his tea...

By Joe Sabolek MVI Sports AMD Industries head coach Bria Rathway has won just about every game during her summer league coaching career — except one.   Her lone loss was most certainly a tough one as ...

Robert Louis Brown, 93, of White Oak, passed away Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. He was born Aug. 3, 1927, in Willock, and was the son of the late John Chizer and the late Alberta Curry Miller. He was a U.S. N...

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss. With heavy hearts, we note the passing of James “Jim” Allen Burnett, 80, of Eighty Four, on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Born Nov. 23, 1...

Gene L. Masters King, 93, of Monongahela, died Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in her home. Born Sept. 14, 1926, in Mt. Carmel, Pa., she was the daughter of Samuel and Lillian H. Cooper Masters. After her gra...

Peter Mortakis, 75, of North Huntingdon, died Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. He was born in McKeesport on July 6, 1945 and is the son of the late Nicholas and Elizabeth Haney Mortakis. He retired from Port A...

Martin A. Nogy, 71, of North Belle Vernon, passed away Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, at Family Hospice, Pittsburgh. Born Aug. 1, 1949, in North Charle- roi, he was the son of the late Martin A. and Audrey S...

Johanna T. Sabo, 96, formerly of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in Mount Vernon of Elizabeth. A daughter of the late John and Bertha Sepashe, she was born in North Cha...

Joseph Paul Trenk, 96, of Belle Vernon, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020. He was born on Sept. 6, 1923, the son of Paul and Elizabeth Trenk. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Mary Vera ...

Norma Jean Yartin, 88, of Monessen, died Monday, Aug. 10, 2020.  Born in Belle Vernon on Sept. 21, 1931, she was the daughter of the late John F. and Mildred L. Sickles Allen. Norma Jean was a member ...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com WPIAL Executive Director Amy Scheuneman had a defiant tone Monday during a press conference outside WPIAL headquarters in Green Tree, signaling to member schools a...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com After an eventful 10-game regular season, it’s playoff time in the Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketball League. Four teams from the boys and girls divisions will...

By Jeff Oliver MVI Sports News of the death of one of my childhood friends and fellow Monessen Class of 1976 member, Delvin Miller, came pretty much like he lived his life. Quietly without any fanfare...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com An impromptu encounter between a Rostraver Township police officer and a group of children last month has received recognition as a positive example of communit...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com An investigation is underway after a small airplane overturned during a landing Sunday at Rostraver Airport. Maurice Haas, the airport’s director of public safety, s...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com An unidentified boater was flown by medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh area hospital early Saturday morning after a fishing boat was hit by another vessel on the Mon...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Students in the Ringgold School District will return to classes Sept. 1 — in one form or another — but their families have to decide by Friday the method they pla...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Multiple schools in the Mon Valley have been awarded COVID-19 Continuity of Education and Equity Grants from the state Department of Education. The agency has allocate...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com It’s been nearly two months since Jefferson Hills police officer Dale Provins Jr. passed away, but thanks to the efforts of local officials, his name and leg...

Fans cover their faces as they watch a Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketball League game between Lee Supply and Edward Jones this week.