By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Through five innings Thursday night, Mon City struggled to get things going at the plate.   The Rams had plenty of baserunners, drawing six walks against Franklin Re...

Lazer Glasser, 11, and his mother, Lisa, of Carroll Township stay dry under an umbrella Thursday evening while watching the Mon City Rams play at DiVirgilio Field in Rostraver Township.

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Ed and Jen Moslander of the McKeesport Pony-Colt Baseball Youth Organization say they love their community.   And through their passion for America’s national pastime ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township may get a 28-acre parcel of land from Westmoreland County to use to benefit senior citizens and recreational development. Commissioner John L...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Forward Township supervisors haven’t met in public since the pandemic began in March and they have no plans to get together soon. While other municipalities hav...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A do-it-yourself approach to an annual fundraiser that benefits Westmoreland County trails has been a success.   Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of the 21st...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A Westmoreland County woman is suing a former Monongahela police officer, police chief and the City of Monongahela after she claims one of the officers sexua...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Two juveniles who were charged with attempted homicide in the beating of a Monongahela man with an aluminum baseball bat in December accepted plea deals this week...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A juvenile has been charged in the assault of two men and a woman after fireworks were set off close to one of their cars in Charleroi in June. According to Charl...

David Granato, 54, of Charleroi, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Friends will be received from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, at CARL J. SPALLINO FUNERAL HOME, 819 Fallowfield Ave.,...

Samuel R. Russell Perryopolis Samuel R. Russell, 65, of Perryopolis, passed away Tuesday, July 28, 2020, in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. He was born April 15, 1955, in Charleroi, son of Sam...

Cindy Lou Gray, 61, of Monessen, died Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Born in North Charleroi on June 21, 1959, she was the daughter of Joyce Miller Sickles, who survives and resides in Fayette City, and th...

Michael M. Havrilesko, 44, of Charleroi, passed away on Sunday, July 26, 2020. Born on April 26, 1976, he was the son of Mary Lou Miller Picinotti of Belle Vernon and Thomas “T.J.” Picinotti of Charle...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com It wasn’t the start head coach Tommy Rodriguez envisioned. His Dax Thomas State Farm team allowed too many easy looks and couldn’t get shots to fall in the opening 1...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Tasya Troxler-Scott earned herself a start for unbeaten AMD Industries and she made the most of it Wednesday in the middle game of a Mon Valley Independent Summer ...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports The Belle Vernon Leopard Nation baseball team has had trouble with the bat at times during the Western PA Summer Baseball League season. Apparently the beginning of t...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Another day and another restriction. That’s how local restaurant and bar owners are viewing the latest go-round of coronavirus restrictions placed on Pennsyl...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Monessen woman is accused of animal neglect after her dogs were found on a second-floor roof drinking water from a gutter on a scorching summer day. Jennifer Lynn Sc...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Why do people live in Rostraver Township? That’s the central question consultant Denny Puko presents to the Rostraver Township commissioners as they update thei...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fox Stop Road in Fallowfield Township has been closed for more than a year, but there is no relief in sight for residents who have been forced to use a 6 mile detour...