By Associated Press HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s treasurer refused Thursday to approve payments for more than $1 million in security systems and other upgrades to the private home of Gov. Josh Shapiro,...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, he said Thursday, a day after...

By RUSS BYNUM AND JEFF MARTIN Associated Press NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — Huge plumes of smoke blanketed swaths of the Southeast on Wednesday as crews battled rapidly growing wildfires that destroyed more th...

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Thursday Events • NFL Draft Party with specials, prizes and giveaways, Foster House II, Washington Township. • Country Line Dancing, H Lounge, Hollywood Casino at the Meadows, North Strabane Township,...

By Peter Hall, Pennsylvania Capital-Star April 21, 2026 Upper Merion Township in the Philadelphia suburbs is no stranger to development. During the holiday shopping season, the once-rural community’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It might be hard to imagine the Iran war weighing on stuffed toys with names like Snuggle Glove, Bizzikins and Wobblies, but even plush playthings are not immune when oil shipments fro...

DALLAS (AP) — Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more relig...

Payments were allegedly being funneled to extremist informants. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions o...

By JEFFREY COLLINS AND SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press RICHBURG, S.C. (AP) — It took less than three minutes for wind-whipped flames to go from licking the side of the house to shattering a window an...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Animal welfare activists converged outside of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ Capitol office on Monday, chanting “Free the dogs!” and demanding that the governor and attorney general d...

BOSTON (AP) — The clip-clop of horse hooves echoed as Paul Revere rode through the streets of Boston’s North End on Monday — a reenactment of his historic midnight ride, but with some modern- day twea...

LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Charlie Price says he didn’t learn much about the American Revolution in school. He knew about George Washington, the Battle of Bunker Hill and that the patriots won. It wasn’t...

The New York Times recently named Querétaro, Mexico, as one of the 52 best places to go in 2026. Mexico City, Tijuana and Cancun may be the most well-known cities in the Republica Mexicana, but they o...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — About 1 million bees temporarily took over an interstate exit ramp in East Tennessee after a beekeepers’ truck crashed and set them loose. On social media, Tennessee Department...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump offered mixed messages Monday about the path ahead for the U.S. war against Iran, declaring that he was in no rush to end the conflict while also expressing co...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the administration announced Monday, after a series of alleged abuses of her position’s power, includi...

By MARYCLAIRE DALE AND TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — Judy Prichard McCleary believes her ancestors have gone to the afterlife, and that only their bodies are buried at the fami...

The ceremony will premiere on Netflix next month. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Murphy took a moment to look out at the star-studded room at the American Film Institute ceremony — at his family, his peers,...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...