MOWING SEASON BEGINS
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April 15, 2025
Scott Pirilla did his first grass-cutting of the year Monday in Rostraver Township. Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent
Hirings planned in White Oak
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
April 15, 2025
They include finding a new police chief as well as filling vacancies on public works & the pool management team. White Oak is in the process of hiring new staff to its police department and public wor...
Judge denies bail for man accused of setting fire at Shapiro’s residence
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April 15, 2025
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who allegedly scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion was denied bail Monday as he face...
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
April 15, 2025
An Indiana, Pa., man is accused of stealing $600 and cigarettes from the Sunoco on Rostraver Road in July 2023. An arrest warrant has been issued for Malcolm Lavourr Crews, 45, who police said held a ...
Politics
April 15, 2025
To the Editor: Why doesn’t the left deal with facts, instead of spewing out DNC talking points? While reading some of these “Letters to the Editor,” I wonder why they want this country and Trump to fa...
10 tariff questions never asked
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April 15, 2025
1. President Donald Trump’s so-called “trade war.” Many call the American effort to obtain either tariff parity or a reduction in the roughly $1 trillion trade deficit and 50 years of consecutive trad...
The hope of the pope
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April 15, 2025
Pope Francis making snow angels. That image adorned the cover of an issue of The New Yorker in December 2013. I have a coffee mug I picked up in Rome early on in his pontificate depicting him as a sup...
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April 15, 2025
ACCORDING TO PENNSYLVANIA LAW, your land is not your possession and affords no expectation of privacy. That was the argument Deputy Attorney General Anthony Kovalchick made to the Pennsylvania Supreme...
Monongahela, McKeesport host Easter egg hunts
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April 14, 2025
Lorenzo Trilli, 5, Nova Melvin, 4, and Alena Trilli, 10, all of Monongahela, posed with the Easter bunny at Saturday’s Easter Egg Hunt in Monongahela. Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent
Arrest made in arson fire at governor’s residence
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
April 14, 2025
Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were evacuated around 2 a.m. Sunday. Hours after allegedly jumping a fence, breaking into the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and family and setting it on fire,...
RAD Staycation program returning this year
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
April 14, 2025
It offers free and discounted tickets to various popular attractions for Allegheny County residents with library cards. The Allegheny Regional Asset District announced the RAD Summer Staycation progra...
Search continues for suspect in Rostraver Township murder
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April 14, 2025
By JOE NAPSHA TribLive Jennah Seibert was found shot to death Friday afternoon in a home on Lenity School Road. No arrests have been reported as of Sunday afternoon in connection with the fatal shooti...
West Mifflin awaits insurance settlement from fire
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
April 14, 2025
The high school auditorium was damaged in December when a lift ignited while recharging. The West Mifflin Area School District could get close to $4 million from insurance claims regarding a fire in t...
New nonresident policy for employees considered
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BELLE VERNON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
April 14, 2025
There may be tuition charges for nonresidents to send their children to BVA schools. During a work session last week, the Belle Vernon Area school board discussed a change to the district’s nonresiden...
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
April 14, 2025
Police haven’t released the name of the victim. A 3-year-old boy was tragically killed Sunday in Elizabeth Township after an accident involving a riding lawnmower. Police have not released the name of...
Hunting for eggs in Monongahela, McKeesport
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April 14, 2025
Brynlee Rydze, 2, of Carroll Township fills up her basket in Monongahela
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April 14, 2025
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT is representative. We pull from our neighbors to find the people who should lead us. But we don’t put those people in place forever. Or at least, we don’t plan on it. Frequently, h...
History lends context to contemporary conflicts
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April 14, 2025
It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations of American...
Final whistle at Corelle plant
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A 132-year tradition of glassmaking in Charleroi ended Friday
By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
April 12, 2025
As the blare of the whistle at Corelle Brands sounded for the last time on Friday, quiet cries could be heard. At noon, a sound so familiar signaled the end of a chapter. When that whistle filled the ...