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HONOR ROLLS
June 18, 2024
The following students were named to the 2023-24 fourth-quarter honor roll at Belle Vernon Area Middle School: Grade 8 Highest honors Victoria Brynne Alexander, Emily Lynn Antonic, Sawyer James Barton...
Westmoreland Register of Wills fined, agrees to resign
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By RICH CHOLODOFSKY Trib Total Media 
June 18, 2024
Sherry Magretti Hamilton will have until the end of the year to pay her fine and agreed not to appeal the ruling. Westmoreland County Register of Wills Sherry Magretti Hamilton, whose management of th...
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By By JULIA MARUCA Trib Total Media 
June 18, 2024
UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers announced in August they would be testing the vaccine. Through an upcoming clinical trial, approximately 50 women will receive a new vaccine for early-sta...
Glenn Porter remembered at golf event for foundation
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
June 18, 2024
Hundreds of people attended the first Glenn Edward Porter III Memorial Golf Outing. The sun was shining — and Glenn Porter was surely smiling down on the greens — as hundreds of his friends, family an...
Warriors Rock returning to Monongahela Aquatorium
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June 18, 2024
The performance honors veterans through music and videos. By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com The Warriors Rock concert will return to Monongahela for its third year July 21. The patriotic concert h...
Cooling centers will be open this week throughout the Mon Valley
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Several cooling centers will be open this week throughout the Mon Valley
By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
June 18, 2024
Southwestern Pennsylvania is in the grips of a severe heat wave this week. A heat advisory for the entire area started at 11 a.m. Monday and will continue through 8 p.m. Friday, according to WTAE-TV m...
New playground in White Oak likely to open in two weeks
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WHITE OAK
By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
June 18, 2024
Paving in the area is scheduled to begin today. The new playground at Heritage Hill Park in White Oak is expected to be open for the public in approximately two weeks, barring any unforeseen delays in...
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June 18, 2024
By JUSTIN VELLUCCI Trib Total Media A New Castle man is headed to Common Pleas court on charges that he shot a man during an argument at a Memorial Day Weekend family cookout in McKeesport. Allegheny ...
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
June 18, 2024
A warrant was issued for an Elizabeth Township man after police found a naked woman he allegedly beat, burned and restrained with rope and tape walking along a busy roadway. Elizabeth Township police ...
Politics
June 17, 2024
THURSDAY IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL day of summer, but the thermometer outside begs to differ. The heat and high humidity are making a big comeback this week. If you haven’t prepared already, now is a good...
The West is sick of the New Woke Jihadism
Politics
June 17, 2024
What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the stree...
The importance of miracles
Politics
June 17, 2024
“Every Sunday for me it’s hard,” says Nancy Pelosi in “Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning,” a 2008 collection edited by Kerry Kennedy, da...
Fire in McKeesport destroys 1 house and damages four
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June 17, 2024
The blaze at Jenny Lind and Federal streets is under investigation. By MEGAN SWIFT Trib Total Media A weekend fire in McKeesport destroyed one house and damaged four surrounding buildings Sunday — and...
Region under excessive heat watch
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June 17, 2024
Dangerously hot temperatures are expected in the area this week. By the MVI A severe heat wave is coming to southwestern Pennsylvania this week. WTAE-TV meteorologist Jill Szwed said an intense heat w...
McKeesport Area School District receives grant to hire more staff
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
June 17, 2024
Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation awarded the district the $855,000 grant. The McKeesport Area School District received an $855,000 grant from the Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation to hire and develop a...
White Oak church to host fifth annual ‘Food Truck Friday’
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
June 17, 2024
A strawberry social will also be held during the event set for June 28 at Sampson’s Mills Presbyterian Church. Those driving along White Oak’s Lincoln Way might see a familiar sign in front of a local...
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
June 17, 2024
California Area School District was the only district in Washington County to receive funding through the program. California Area School District will receive state funding to enhance environmental e...
Are Penn State cuts a preview of higher education divide?
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June 17, 2024
By BILL SCHACKNER AND MEGAN SWIFT Trib Total Media The gap between Penn State University’s sprawling main campus and its 20 branches can be measured these days in ways more personal and profound than ...