Politics
December 10, 2025

Judge: Justice Dept. can unseal Maxwell sex trafficking case records

By By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press 

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant, but he cautioned that people shouldn’t expect to learn much new information from them.

Family honors mom’s legacy of kindness by continuing her bracelet ministry
Latest News, Main
By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
May 9, 2026
Before her passing last year, Hazel Brock Rone began making bracelets and giving them away to spread kindness and love. At Anthony E. Madison Sr. Veterans Memorial Park in Monessen, Valerie Osborne st...
BVA’s mock prom crash confronts real-life consequences
Latest News, Main
By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
May 9, 2026
About 400 Belle Vernon Area students attended the annual drill to raise awareness of driving impaired. On Friday, hundreds of Belle Vernon Area High School students stood in silence as they watched fi...
Pa. Senate votes to end auto emission inspections
Latest News, Main
May 9, 2026
The Senate bill faces much stiffer odds in the Democratic-majority state House. By Pennlive.Com The state Senate this week passed a bill that would end Pennsylvania’s emissions inspection program for ...
Today in history:
Features
May 9, 2026
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, May 9, the 129th day of 2026. There are 236 days left in the year. On May 9, 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conditionally approved Enovid for use as th...
Age is just a number – I still need my Mom
Opinion
May 9, 2026
Everything changes as we get older, including Mother’s Day. But even though I am 52 years old with two grown sons, I will be the first to say that I still need my Mom. That is something that neither t...
Some MAGA loyalists have turned on Trump. Why the rest haven’t
Opinion, Politics
May 9, 2026
Irecently watched “A Face in the Crowd” for the umpteenth time. I had a better reason than procrastination to rewatch Elia Kazan’s brilliant 1957 film exploring populism in the television age. It was ...