By the Mon Valley Independent This basketball season has been unique to say the least, but an added development to the season was the continued growth of MVI Live and the Mon Valley Independent’s cont...

By JASON BLACK For the Mon Valley Independent The 2021 season was a tough one for a number of reasons for the Connellsville boys basketball team. The Falcons dealt with delays and setbacks due to COVI...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Three area football players will take part in a pair of Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association East-West all-star games Memorial Day weekend.   Elizabe...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports The South Allegheny boys basketball team had its final playoff tuneup Thursday night and looked every bit like the top seed in Class 3A. The Gladiators had three play...

By Jamie Rankin For the MV Independent The Elizabeth Forward hockey team headed into the Ice Mine in third place in the PIHL Division B standings Thursday.   By the end of the night, the Warriors hadn...

Marie Cover, 95, of Port Vue, died on Feb. 20, 2021, at Concordia of Monroeville. Born Oct. 1, 1925, in McKeesport, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Katherine Klukaszewski Daczkowski and th...

Patricia Ann Sokol Gniefkowski, 82, of Rostraver Township, died Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Born in Van Meter on Feb. 6, 1939, she was the daughter of the late Josephine Indof Sokol and Michael Sokol Sr...

Alice Helen Haney was born Oct. 8, 1929, in Pittsburgh. She went home to be with her Jesus on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, at 6 p.m. Central Time. She was a devoted wife, loving mother and adoring grandmoth...

Mildred “Mutsy” Kovich LaMendola, 90, of Monessen, formerly of Donora, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. Born in Van Voorhis on April 13, 1930, she was a daughte...

Helen Regina Mandarino, 93, formerly of Monessen, died peacefully with her loving family by her side on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, at Country Meadows Retirement Community, Bridgeville. She was born on J...

By TAYLOR BROWN JEFF STITT & CHRISTINE HAINES It’s possible that the next set of district lines for Congress and the state Pennsylvania Legislature won’t be hammered out until May 2022 due to a delay ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Emotions were high Wednesday evening near the scene of a fatal shooting at a convenience store in Donora. Washington County Coroner S. Timothy Warco identified the vic...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fallowfield Township is offering up advice to a township in Butler County that lost nearly all of its equipment in a garage fire over the weekend. Supervisor Bruce S...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Thanks to two new federal assistance programs, renters and landlords in Washington County will soon see help with rent and utility payments. On Friday, Washi...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Food trucks will be permitted in Rostraver Township this summer, but the details of the regulation covering those trucks is still being discussed. At the planni...

Yma Byrd Smith, 63, of Brownsville, transitioned to be with the Lord on Feb. 20, 2021. She was the beloved wife of Rudy Smith; sister to Christopher, Kevin, Lamont, Devega and Lamar Byrd; and many oth...

Marilyn Ruth Mular, age 89, of White Oak, died on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. She was born in McKeesport, on Aug. 17, 1931 and is the daughter of the late John and Mary Hayduk Rice and the wife of the lat...

William G. ‘’Bill’’ Upperman, 91, formerly of North Charleroi, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Born in Webster in 1929, he was the son of the late William and Sarah Jane O’Donnell Upperman. Bill worked a...

Henry Joseph Marini was born in Belle Vernon, on July 22, 1916, to Amos and Clara Sylvester Marini. When he met and married Angela Curcio of Monongahela in 1938, that is where they lived thereafter. T...

Thomas William Macko, age 91, died on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, at Landis Homes in Lititz, Pa. Born on March 7, 1929, in Homestead, he is the son of the late Andrew and Anna Copan Macko, who both emigrat...