YOUTH NIGHT AT CALIFORNIA
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September 13, 2025
Aubrey George, Madelyn Casey and Gabby Pollock cheered for the Trojans on Friday as California Area celebrated Youth Night during its football game against Bentworth. Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independ...
Valley senators hope budget process nearing end
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
September 13, 2025
Progress has been made in recent weeks, but there’s no way to tell when the prolonged standoff might be resolved. It has been 75 days since the Pennsylvania legislature missed the deadline to approve ...
Anders family leaned on love after losing child to suicide
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
September 13, 2025
They described how they dealt with the loss of their daughter Samantha, who took her life at age 14. They chose love when it would’ve been easier to choose anger. They chose love when silence felt saf...
Warriors Rock raises nearly $13K for local veterans
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
September 13, 2025
The money was presented to the Monongahela Veterans Council Friday night. The energy was electric, the crowd was the biggest yet — and the result was nearly $13,000 going to support Mon Valley veteran...
Penn State president gets 47% raise in wake of campus closure decision
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September 13, 2025
By KELLEN STEPLER TribLive Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi’s base salary will increase 47% in an effort, approved Friday by the university’s board of trustees, to keep her as president until 2032...
Dems outraged RFK isn’t Fauci
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September 13, 2025
emocrats so enjoyed forcing DAmericans to do silly things during COVID, like starving their children of oxygen and letting Grandma die alone, that they leapt right back to their hectoring at the Senat...
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September 13, 2025
It may not be your imagination that your eyes seem more watery, your throat scratchier and your nose a little runnier. The fall allergy season is underway in Pennsylvania, and it’ll take a hard frost ...
Politics
September 13, 2025
To the Editor: Just when you thought some Democrats couldn’t get any dumber, they go and prove they actually can! The latest brilliant stand is defending the animal that killed that little Ukrainian g...
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MARC town hall set for Monday
September 13, 2025
A Clarksville man is facing charges after police said he intervened in a fight between juveniles Thursday evening at City Park in Monessen. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Monessen police...
Flag duty at Charleroi Elementary Center
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September 12, 2025
Charleroi Elementary Center fifth-graders Gunner Fleming, Xavier Arnold, Charlie Carson, Vivian Johnson and Levi Moody helped take down the flag at the end of the school day. Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Vall...
Twin Rivers gets new principal
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MCKEESPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
September 12, 2025
Sade Johnson is currently assistant principal at Francis McClure Elementary School. The McKeesport Area school board voted to hire a new principal for Twin Rivers Elementary at Thursday’s meeting. The...
Donora gets help with code enforcement
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
September 12, 2025
Luke Snatchko, who was approved Thursday, is on loan from Washington County. Donora finally has a code enforcement officer again — at least for now. At Thursday’s meeting, council approved the appoint...
Annual run honors 9/11 victims and heroes
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
September 12, 2025
Area residents complete a challenging 9.11-mile course every year on Sept. 11. Every year on Sept. 11, while most people reflect, a handful of local residents lace up their shoes and hit the pavement ...
Project updates provided to West Mifflin school board
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
September 12, 2025
The district is considering a change in how it ranks the top graduating students. West Mifflin Area school board members received an update at Thursday’s meeting on several ongoing projects in the dis...
Spending limited amid state budget impasse
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WESTMORELAND COUNTY
September 12, 2025
County leaders warned of potential layoffs, service cuts and the closure of facilities. By RICH CHOLODOFSKY TribLive Westmoreland County leaders said a looming financial crisis could result in layoffs...
Educators call for cyber charter funding reform
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September 12, 2025
The superintendents at BVA and Yough are among those who signed a letter to state legislators. By QUINCEY REESE TribLive Hundreds of Pennsylvania school district administrators are calling for cyber c...
Politics
September 12, 2025
TRIALS SHOULD HAPPEN AS SOON as possible after the defendant is arrested. The U.S. Constitution spells this out in the Sixth Amendment, the first of several rights afforded. “In all criminal prosecuti...
Making decisions, not speeches
Politics
September 12, 2025
“My worst day as governor,” Joe Manchin often lamented, “was better than my best day as a senator.” The West Virginia Democrat spent a combined total of 20 years in those two jobs, so he knows what he...
Politics
September 12, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at an event in Utah had particular resonance for public figures who have experienced political violence themselves. Kirk, who...