He served as a magisterial district judge in Charleroi until January 2020. Larry Hopkins doesn’t like taking time off. After retiring as magisterial district judge in Charleroi in January 2020 and wor...

It offers the fun of the normal presentation, but in a less frightening way. Allen’s Haunted Hayrides in Smock, a beloved local attraction and family tradition since 1979, will host its third annual s...

Anthony Hairston would have received 25 to 50 years in prison under the agreement. By RICH CHOLODOFSKY TribLive A Belle Vernon man awaiting trial for the alleged road rage killing of a motorist two ye...

Potential dates will be discussed at next week’s school board meeting. At Tuesday’s meeting, Belle Vernon Area school board members discussed setting a date to consider renovations to the district’s s...

It caps off a stretch of giving that began in June. By the MVI The Washington County Community Foundation will host its countywide giving event Thursday to benefit local charitable nonprofits. Each ye...

THE DATING OF BALLOTS in Pennsylvania is a Groundhog Day kind of issue. No, we don’t mean that it pops its head up in February and then crawls back into its burrow to finish a long nap. No, we don’t m...

In the days before Vice President Kamala Harris visited Wilkes- Barre, Pa., on Friday the 13th, some Trump supporters in this northeastern Pennsylvania town speculated that she would have trouble attr...

Pennsylvania ballots for the November general election have been finalized by the state, and voters in Allegheny County can expect mail-in ballots to start arriving the week of Sept. 30, according to ...

• Amy L. Vernon, 54, of West Newton was charged with indecent exposure, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness stemming from an alleged incident Aug. 25, court records state. A preliminary hearing ...

Belle Vernon Area volleyball fans Anthony Dicenzo and Timmy Schwerha attended Monday’s game against Frazier. Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent

Monessen High School will host homecoming festivities during Friday night’s home game at Memorial Stadium. This year’s homecoming court queen candidates, from left, are Jadyn Bradley, Deborah Garry, B...

All single-serve food donations will be distributed to needy students in the district. When football teams from Belle Vernon Area and South Fayette meet on the field Friday night, another challenge wi...

The crowd was expecting to hear about low water levels in the Mon River. Dozens of Mon Valley residents concerned about the drop of the Monongahela River level were incensed when Monongahela Area Revi...

Sean Logue, chairman of the county party, plans to file complaints with the IRS and the Pennsylvania Department of State. The Washington County Republican Party has announced its intention to take act...

A moment of silence was held to remember former councilman Ken Robb. White Oak council held two recognitions and a moment of silence Monday for noteworthy members of the community. Casey Donahoe, 39, ...

A woman is accused of attacking a pregnant woman in Monessen. A mother called 911 requesting to speak with an officer while her daughter was in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital following an assault....

A McKeesport Area School District custodian is on unpaid leave after police say he was caught with drugs in his car on school property. Jason Tom, 42, of North Versailles was charged with prohibited a...

The Sept. 10 presidential debate went down as expected. Summed up, it was Sappy and the Blob pile on Grouchy. The swarmy and evasive Vice President Kamala Harris preened, posed, and proffered empty pl...

The human-rights issue of our lives is abortion. Clearly not everyone sees it that way. It’s buried in euphemisms about women’s health. But unborn children still die. The March for Life happen every J...

TODAY, WE CELEBRATE National Voter Registration Day — the massive cross-country effort to register voters ahead of the midterm elections. Thousands of national, state and local organizations and volun...