By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com For the past decade, the Charleroi Regional Police Department has called the borough building home free of charge. But, Charleroi council President Paul Pivovarnik w...

By the Mon Valley Independent Members of the Mon Valley Independent Live team traveled to Cal U Wednesday afternoon to speak to professor Jeff Helsel’s Producing Media Messages class about real-life e...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Coming off its second loss of the season, the Belle Vernon Area basketball team started fast and never let up in a dominant effort against visiting Uniontown to cl...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports In the month of January, the Monessen boys’ basketball team was a perfect 9-0. As the calendar flipped to February, it was a different month but the same result for the Greyh...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com With a key Section 4-5A battle against Latrobe looming at the end of the week, McKeesport head coach Amy Gumbert wasn’t fearful of a letdown Tuesday night. To read t...

Gary Malarkey of Belle Vernon washes the built-up salt off his vehicle at Val’s Car Wash in Rostraver Township Tuesday afternoon — the warmest day the Mon Valley has seen in weeks.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com In September, when Monessen’s former mayor made the move to hire an outside law firm to remove members of the redevelopment authority at a cost of $12,000, no one...

By Renatta Signorini Trib Total Media Pennsylvania’s annual four-legged forecasting festivities got underway early today in Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day. To read the rest of the story, please see a ...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com George Turner lived 91 years on the same block.   The former Westmoreland County deputy sheriff died Dec. 1, and his widow, Faye Turner, has donated her late...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Health care staff across the state, including the Mon Valley, will benefit from legislation recently agreed to by both chambers in the General Assembly. To read the ...

Frank V. “Moe” Vizza, 90, of Belle Vernon, passed away from complications of COVID-19 on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. He was born on Feb. 7, 1931, in Monessen, the son...

Donald H. Romito Sr., age 92, entered into eternal rest on Jan. 29, 2022. Born in Charleroi Sept. 21, 1929, he was the son of the late Octavio and Eva Troiano Romito. He was preceded in death by 11 si...

Michael Thomas Kondratik, 80, of Charleroi, passed away on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, at West Penn Hospital. A son of the late Michael and Mary Madzy Kondratik, he was born in Charleroi on March 6, 1941. ...

Charles R. Cain Jr., 80, of Forward Township, went to be with his Heavenly Father on Jan. 28, 2022. He was a son of the late Charles R. and Louise Staffen Cain Sr. Chuck graduated from Elizabeth Forwa...

Brian Kovalak Brian Kovalak, age 62, died Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, at St. Clair Memorial Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was born Feb. 15, 1959, in North Charleroi, the son of the late William Kovalak and...

On Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, former Donora resident Virginia Amoroso Sovich, of Frederick, Md., passed away, surrounded by the love and affection of her family. Virginia, 91, was born on Feb. 14, 1930,...

Dawn Marie Sosnak, 53, of Monongahela, passed away on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. She was born on April 1, 1968, in New Eagle, a daughter of the late Joseph Bosdosh a...

Gregory Lee Teegarden Sr., 69, of California, passed away on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. Born on Oct. 28, 1952, he was the son of the late Frank and Mae Teegarden. He was a retired driver for Hilltop Bus L...

Stephen Drechsler, age 85, of Port Vue, died on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. He was born in Wysowa, Poland, on Aug. 5, 1936, and is the son of the late John and Mary Babich Drechsler. He was a member of t...

Virginia M. Saunders, 84, of Belle Vernon, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, at Laurel Ridge Center in Uniontown. A daughter of the late Richard H. and Bruna Bononi Tresinutto, she was born in S...