Chandler, Pirates earn series win at season’s halfway point

TODAY IN HISTORY 11 Today is Tuesday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2026. There are 142 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 11, 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a...

• In 1919, Germany’s Weimar Constitution was signed by President Friedrich Ebert. • In 1929, Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to reach 500 career home runs with a homer at Cleveland’s League...

Magazine columnist Marilyn Vos Savant is 80. Country music singer John Conlee is 80. Computer scientist and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is 76. Musician Joe Jackson is 72. Playwright David Henry Hwa...

It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists”—once they find power. Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of soci...

The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...

TODAY, FLAGS WILL BE LOWERED to half-staff across the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works’ three local plants, and employees will pause for a moment of silence to mark one year since an explosion at the Clair...