The membership of the Pennsylvania State Coroners’ Association (PSCA) held its annual meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 16th-20th, 2024. During the business meeting, Washington County Coroner S. Timoth...

VENICE, Italy (AP) — “ Joker “ is a hard act to follow. Todd Phillips’ dark, Scorsese- inspired character study about the Batman villain made over a billion dollars at the box office, won Joaquin Phoe...

Reforestation gap By TAMMY WEBBER, BRITTANY PETERSON AND CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press BELLVUE, Colo. (AP) — Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over evergreen seedlings, measuri...

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter reached the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, turned 100 on Tuesday, celebrating i...

• Timothy David Corwin, 37, of Monongahela was charged with simple assault and harassment stemming from an alleged incident Sept. 10, court records state. A preliminary hearing before Magisterial Dist...

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet tonight in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after...

THE MON VALLEY INDEPENDENT IS GOING PINK this month to support an important cause. Through the end of October, we will place a pink ribbon on our masthead to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to ...

A Pittsburgh man wanted on a bench warrant out of Allegheny County was arrested Sunday in Charleroi after jumping from a balcony. Roneal Dunscomb, 38, is charged with loitering and prowling at night, ...

By MAE ANDERSON AND ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas could shut down Tuesday if a union representing about 45,000 dockworkers carries through with a ...

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AND WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streamin...

A series of clashes among residents at Westmoreland County’s juvenile detention center in August resulted in injuries to one staff member and multiple job vacancies, director Rich Gordon said. The det...

The Minneapolis home is filled with tributes to the late music superstar. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For a short time, up to 100 Prince fans visiting the music superstar’s hometown will have a place to stay w...

NEW YORK (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola’s decadesin- the-making, self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film “The Wild Robot” soared to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at...

The hurricane left millions of people in the Southeast without power. PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities struggled to get water and other supplies to isolated, flood-stricken areas across the U.S. Southea...

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Gr...

• Brendan Michael Tempel, 33, of Charleroi was charged with flight to avoid apprehension, trial, or punishment, resisting arrest, criminal trespassing, false identification to a law enforcement office...

2014 • Sunday – no paper 2004 • The Valley hosted a special group of professional athletes. The Iceland women’s national soccer team practiced at Palmer Park in Donora. The Icelandic women were tuning...

BRUSSELS (AP) — As the war in Ukraine enters a critical period, the European Union has decided that it must take responsibility for what it sees as an existential threat to security in its own neighbo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. The former president and curr...