Matthew W. Sweeney, 88, of Rostraver Township, died Friday, April 8, 2022. Born in Rostraver Township on May 7, 1933, he was the son of the late John F. and Anna A. Accipiter Sweeney. In addition to h...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com With the completion of the 2021-2022 high school basketball season comes the flood of postseason awards. The votes have been counted and tabulated, and the Mon Val...

Gabriel Michael Brooks, 5, of Monessen waited for the rain to stop Thursday so he could go to Community Bank Park in North Belle Vernon. More rain is in the forecast for today and Saturday.

For the Mon Valley Independent When Thomas Jefferson High School students Emma Martinis and Olivia Supp met with the West Jefferson Hills School Board in late January, they had a goal in mind.   To re...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com South Allegheny did something other teams haven’t done so far this season, that’s take the lead on powerful Serra Catholic. To read the rest of the story, please s...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak Planning Commission gave favorable recommendations Thursday that move LiveWell Development Co. one step closer to possibly bringing life back to the former W...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Like many small municipalities across the state, Donora wants to ensure it spends funds awarded through the American Rescue Plan Act wisely.   To read the rest of th...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com The Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE) held a flag-raising ceremony Thursday at UPMC McKeesport.   To read the rest of the story, please see a co...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Port Vue Borough Council heard from several residents about the state of distressed properties slated for demolition. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Frida...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area bats came alive early and stayed hot for five innings against West Mifflin Wednesday afternoon. Six different players finished with multi-hit p...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Plans are taking shape for the third year of action in the Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketball League and registration for players is now open for new and ret...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports Olive DiBernardo has a passion for BMX racing. The 11-year-old from Carroll Township has been competing for five years now racing bikes and she is hooked on the sport. She go...

Richard T. “Skeeter” Brown Jr. departed this life unexpectedly, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. He was currently a resident of McKeesport, but formerly resided in Clairton. He was born May 2, 1947, to R...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Six families are displaced and a dog has died following an apartment fire in Elizabeth Township Wednesday. The cause of the fire is unknown. Around 2 p.m., h...

Evelyn M. Coughlin, 89, of Belle Vernon, died on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. She was born in Duquesne on Jan. 5, 1933, and is the daughter of the late Nicholas and Helen Pollock Orosz and the wife of the ...

Charles W. Figel, 92, of Monessen, passed away on April 5, 2022, in the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pittsburgh. He was born in Monessen on Dec. 21, 1929, son of the late Nicholas and M...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Two years after being censured — and fined — while serving as a Charleroi councilwoman, Jody Cheplic will be reimbursed after the borough’s current solicitor claims ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Another closure of the Jerome Street Bridge in McKeesport is looming. At Wednesday’s city council meeting, Mayor Michael Cherepko announced PennDOT informed them that ...

Ann Miller, 87, of Port Vue, passed away on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. She was born in Wall, Pa., on Jan. 9, 1935, and is the daughter of the late Theodore and Mary Antolik Salina and the wife of the lat...

By RALPH STONE For the MVI There is a line from an old song that says, “A shave and a haircut, 2 bits!” Two bits is of course, a quarter! That may have been the price when dad took me to the barbersho...