By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of a German submarine firing a torpedo that sank the SS McKeesport Merchant Marine ship. The city’s namesake is credited with bring...

BY MAX ROBINETTE For the MVI Foster House II Sports Bar and Grill in Belle Vernon (Washington Township) will celebrate the grand opening of its new patio this Friday. Latrobe brewer Stoney’s Beer spon...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com It’s been a long time coming, but today is the day that excavators will be on scene at 500 Donner Ave. to begin demolishing the building. WreckCrew Demolition wil...

By the Mon Valley Independent Emma Augustine had a day she’ll never forget, and made sure teams in Class 4A don’t forget she’s one of the top hitters in the classification. Augustine went 5 for 5 with...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI The McKeesport College Club celebrated several members who have spent more than 50 years dedicated to serving the organization. During their first business meeting in three ye...

Robert Clester Harris, affectionately known as Uncle Bert, 82 years of age, passed away Friday, April 22, 2022, at his residence in Uniontown. Robert was born May 11, 1939, in Monongahela, to the late...

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, for Timothy S. Teets, 63, of New Eagle, who passed away on April 22, 2022, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. He was born Oct. 6, 1958, son...

By RALPH STONE For the MVI As an eager 10-year-old boy during the World War II years, my family lived in a second-floor apartment above a hardware store in downtown Monessen. Two blocks from there was...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District moved a step closer Wednesday night to securing a new transportation provider. Directors Jim Brown, Diane Elias, Dan Goughnour, Joseph ...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Two developers who plan on bringing more housing to Rostraver Township will have their rezoning requests up for vote May 4. Bellevue Partners and RWS Land Co...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Residents of Forward Township rallied against the dissolution of their former police force at an event Tuesday at Rostraver Ice Garden.   To read the rest of...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com “He was Mr. Donora.” Dr. Charles Stacey, a longtime educator and administrator for Ringgold School District, a Donora historian, a survivor of the 1948 Donora smo...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Democrat running for the party nod to fill the seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle stopped in McKeesport Tuesday for a campaign “Meet and Eat” event. To read...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Monessen High School teachers, administrators and Students Against Destructive Decisions members hope that Greyhounds attending the prom this year have a night they re...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Rostraver Elementary School student found a small starter gun buried behind the school on Tuesday.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Wednesday’...

Wilma I. Gibson, 94, of Monongahela, died Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Cambridge Hillside, North Charleroi. She was born Oct. 28, 1927, in Centerville, the daughter of Paul A. and Juliann Burton Medve...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Lorenzo Glasser pitched his most efficient game of the season and Elizabeth Forward’s defense was a big part of Ringgold’s run production as the Rams shut out the ...

Helena Dukery Laskey, 72, of Monongahela, formerly of Carroll Township, passed away April 24, 2022, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. She was born in Germany Dec. 20, 1949, daughter of the late T...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Charleroi saw its losing streak hit four consecutive games with a 4-2 loss to Southmoreland in Section 4-3A play at Veterans Memorial Field Tuesday afternoon.   To r...

Dr. Charles Edward Stacey, 90, a lifelong resident of Donora, passed away peacefully on Monday, April 25, 2022. Born in Donora, on Nov. 24, 1931, he was the son of the late Charles and late Nettie Lam...