Allegheny County steps up pollution checks after Clairton blast
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August 15, 2025
Mobile air quality monitors are being used to track conditions. By JACK TROY TribLive Regulators are temporarily stepping up pollution monitoring in the Mon Valley after a deadly explosion at U.S. Ste...
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August 15, 2025
A COMPANY HAS TO MAKE a profit to stay in business. Everything has a cost, and those costs go up. To stay ahead of that curve, and to make sure the owner or investors are also getting a pay day, a com...
‘Total chaos’ is looming
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August 15, 2025
xtreme partisanship Estarted infecting American politics long before Donald Trump emerged, but the president’s unhinged desire for unlimited power is now driving the two-party system to the brink of a...
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By By LORNE COOK Associated Press 
August 15, 2025
BRUSSELS (AP) — The greenlight given by President Donald Trump on U.S. backup for a European-led force to police any future peace agreement in Ukraine vastly improves the likelihood it might succeed. ...
Donora High School Class of 1965 celebrates 60-year class reunion
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CLASS REUNIONS
August 15, 2025
For the MVI Classmates of Donora High School Class of 1965 celebrated its 60-year reunion at St. Spyridon Hellenic Center in Monessen. The Class of 1964, along with John Kerekes (their student teacher...
Celebrating culture at International Village
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August 14, 2025
Children of the Rankin Jr. Tamburitzans perform to Croatian music during the second night of McKeesport’s 65th annual International Village at Renzie Park. The festival will continue today from 3 to 9...
Elizabeth Forward to vote on $61M bond
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Back to school with construction
By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
August 14, 2025
Students are scheduled to return to class Sept. 2 as construction continues at the high school. Big money and big projects are continuing with construction at Elizabeth Forward High School. During the...
GOP plans to address Pa. budget impasse
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August 14, 2025
The House Rules Committee voted against a Senate proposal that would have provided $1.2 billion over two years for transit agencies and road and bridge projects. By TOM FONTAINE TribLive A pair of com...
Chess Park work will shorten season for city’s farmers market
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
August 14, 2025
The organizers of the Monongahela Farmers Market will have to shorten its season due to lack of space at the park. Construction work at Monongahela’s Chess Park has created tension between the city an...
Charleroi council OKs TV purchases
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
August 14, 2025
Council is also considering audio visual upgrades for council chambers. Tempers were a lot cooler this time around as Charleroi council discussed and voted on replacing the large television that was r...
Warriors Rock returning to Monongahela Saturday
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
August 14, 2025
The performance honors veterans through music and videos. The Monongahela Aquatorium will echo with music, memories, and gratitude this Saturday evening as the nationally touring Warriors Rock concert...
71st Westmoreland Fair welcomes new attractions
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August 14, 2025
There will be free attractions all nine days, including Areli Equine performing western horse stunts and the Buffalo Beal’s Petting Zoo. By KAITLYN HUGHES TribLive As cases of the bird flu increased o...
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More Trump failings
August 14, 2025
To the Editor: A word in defense of my MAGA friends. All my life I’ve been hearing about “waste, fraud and abuse,” watching that slogan spread everywhere. Partly it spread because the media loves to s...
Politics
August 14, 2025
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is mulling a move on marijuana. The president said Monday his administration was considering rescheduling the substance, moving it from Schedule I to a Schedule III. Scheduled d...
The perfect model of the ‘wrongfully convicted’
Politics
August 14, 2025
Today’s story is about Shaurn Thomas, Innocence Project poster boy. The New York Times did not cover Thomas’ 1994 conviction for second-degree murder at the time — but celebrated his “exoneration” in ...
SCENES FROM INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE IN MCKEESPORT
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August 14, 2025
Shown enjoying International Village on Wednesday in Renzie Park are McKeesport family members, from left, Marissa Durst, Paetyn Durst, Aria Bey, 1, Marmar Bey, 4, and Adrian Bey, 2.
Explosion sparked by coke oven gas igniting
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
August 13, 2025
Multiple agencies will investigate Monday’s Clairton Coke Works tragedy that left two workers dead. An ordinary shift at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works was shattered by an explosion Monday morning t...
LaRosa Club receives $250K grant from Dick’s Foundation
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
August 13, 2025
It’s a way for the company to help the young people of McKeesport after its falling out with the school district. Tuesday was a time for celebration for the McKeesport LaRosa Club, which received a ma...
Festival opens with sumptuous food & colorful entertainment
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INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE
By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
August 13, 2025
McKeesport’s annual celebration of cultural heritage will continue today and Thursday. Appetizing scents from various types of food filled the air Tuesday for the opening of McKeesport’s 65th annual I...