By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Frazier’s Tori Washinski played the hero in Game 1 of a doubleheader Saturday. In Game 2, South Allegheny’s Breena Komarnisky took over the role for the Gladiators...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com R.J. Sokol was a fighter. For his friends, for his family and for his community. The former North Belle Vernon councilman was 64 when he died Friday after a battle w...

  By the Mon Valley Independent The winds whipped into the Mon Valley and across Southwestern Pennsylvania in the morning and afternoon hours Friday. “Strong wind continues to impact the region, with ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com New Eagle received a surprise this week when the state Department of Environmental Protection told borough officials to close a popular dump site due to ille...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon will welcome spring this weekend, as area residents stroll Broad Avenue to find bargains, grab a bite to eat and enjoy the weather with their fami...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted this year’s trout fishing season and has resulted in things getting started two weeks earlier than usual. With hope that good times ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com People living near the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill had an opportunity Thursday to sit down with the new regional director of the state Department of Environm...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Four players finished with two hits apiece and Savannah Manns finished with two RBIs as Yough picked up a season-opening win over Frazier on Cougar Mountain Friday...

By Jeff Oliver MVI Sports If Charleroi is going to have any success in baseball this season, it will depend heavily on the right arm of ace Zach Usher. If Friday’s season opener against non-section fo...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports Belle Vernon’s Tara Callaway scored the game-tying run and drove in the gamewinner to lead the Leopards to a 10-9 walkoff win over visiting Greensburg Salem in non-se...

Mrs. Erma Jean Carroll, 87, of Belle Vernon, passed away peacefully on March 25, 2021, at the Residence at Hilltop, Monongahela.   Erma was a daughter of the late Abner and Mildred Tustin Tharp and wa...

Minnie   Pascaralla, 98, of Monessen, died Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Dunlevy Manor, Dunlevy. She was born in Monessen on July 25, 1922, the daughter of the late Michael and Antonia Monaco DeCurtis...

John Michael Timko, 71, of Washington Township, Belle Vernon, formerly of Perryopolis, passed away Thursday, March 25, 2021, at UPMC Montefiore Hospital. Born Oct. 19, 1949, in Mt. Pleasant, he was th...

Robert J. “R.J.” Sokol, 64, of North Belle Vernon, passed away on Friday, March 26, 2021, in UPMC Magee Hospital after a brave and valiant battle with COVID- 19. A son of the late Robert E. Sokol and ...

Estes Park resident Claire (Kovach) Kreider died immediately after attending Mass at Our Lady of The Mountains Church on Saturday, March 6, 2021. She was 78 years old. Claire A. Kovach was born Aug. 1...

Dino DiBasilio, 82, died peacefully in his sleep on Feb. 12, 2021, at UPMC Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh. Dino was born on Sept. 27, 1938, in Monongahela, son of Raniero DiBasilio and Maria Scotti. Dino ...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Maddi Rae of North Belle Vernon, Mackenzie Habel of North Belle Vernon, Anabelle Grace of West Mifflin and Kaitlyn Waldmann of North Belle Vernon enjoyed the pl...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com There have been eight to 10 suspected drug overdoses in Washington County in the past three weeks, including two recently in Charleroi, and area residents are b...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Economic forecaster Joel L. Naroff used to be known in his field as “Dr.” Doom because of pessimistic outlooks.   However, as impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic begin ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area students got a personal lesson Thursday on the early life of Andy Warhol. Earlier this year, Charleroi Area High School social studies teacher Mary An...