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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
September 5, 2024
Four people were charged with assaulting a man at a Belle Vernon residence Saturday night as well as stealing $500 after an argument over allegedly buying illegal drugs. State police in Belle Vernon c...
So long… for awhile
Around The Valley
IT’S ETCHED IN STONE
September 5, 2024
Last week’s column, which had the fictitious Higgins family of Omaha, Neb., bidding a fond farewell to our Mid-Mon Valley was also a time for, yours truly, to bid you a sort of farewell. I’m going to ...
Crash in Elizabeth Borough
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September 5, 2024
Two people were taken to area hospitals following a one-vehicle car crash into a utility pole early Wednesday morning. Elizabeth Borough fire Chief Chad Rager, who was on the scene, said the crash occ...
Another lie: Biden is deporting more illegals than Trump
Politics
September 5, 2024
The mainstream media has always engaged in mass lying about immigration, but they’re really going the extra mile this election cycle. Lie No. 1 is the toughness of the “bipartisan” border bill, covere...
Politics
September 5, 2024
SO DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD HIS FUN with those AI-generated images of crowds of Taylor Swift fans in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts, which reportedly sparked a backlash among actual Swifties. And who didn’...
2-year-old opens fall decoration stand at Rostraver Township farm
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
September 4, 2024
Carson Gillock is on her way to becoming a fifth-generation farmer at Gillock Farms. At just the age of 2, Carson Gillock has officially opened up her own fall decoration stand called “Carson’s Harves...
Fire breaks out on Jefferson Hospital roof
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
September 4, 2024
The blaze was accidentally sparked by construction workers, and some smoke got inside the facility. Emergency crews responded to a construction-related fire on the roof at AHN Jefferson Hospital Tuesd...
Fire tears through abandoned house in Charleroi
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September 4, 2024
Photo by Bentleyville Fire-Rescue Firefighters were called to a structure fire at an abandoned home near the intersection of 10th Street and Oakland Avenue in Charleroi around 3 a.m. Tuesday. When the...
Health issues force Rapp to resign as supervisor
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CARROLL TOWNSHIP
By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
September 4, 2024
He has a long legacy of service in the township after first being elected in 1985. After more than three decades as a supervisor in Carroll Township, Tom Rapp has decided to step down from the positio...
Monessen school board hears report on recommended facility upgrades
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By MICHAEL RICHTER, mrichter@yourmvi.com 
September 4, 2024
ABM Industries, which inspected the district’s buildings, will compile cost estimates. ABM Industries conducted a presentation before the Monessen school board Tuesday regarding potential facility upg...
Pa. observing National Blood Donation Day
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
September 4, 2024
It was declared in response to a nationwide shortage of blood. Gov. Josh Shapiro has declared today National Blood Donation Day, according to the American Red Cross, which invites Pennsylvanians to co...
Hamilton out as register of wills
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By RICH CHOLODOFSKY Trib Total Media 
September 4, 2024
The tumultuous tenure of Westmoreland County Register of Wills Sherry Magretti Hamilton ended Tuesday. Hamilton, 47, of Hempfield, officially walked away from the elected position she has held since J...
Politics
September 4, 2024
HOW HARD IS IT TO REPORT suspected sexual abuse of a minor? In recent years, we have been buried under an absolute avalanche of proof that children have been sexually abused, if not outright raped, by...
Politics
September 4, 2024
By STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT AND AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Tru...
Harris, Trump, and Arlington cemetery
Politics
September 4, 2024
It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over former President Donald Trump‘s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing. Vice President Kamala Ha...
Around The Valley
By By PATRICK VARINE Trib Total Media 
September 4, 2024
Police said witnesses also provided information that incriminated 17-yearold Daemond Artemus. A McKeesport teenager has been arrested and charged with a fatal shooting Monday in the city. Allegheny Co...
Around The Valley
September 4, 2024
By the MVI A McKeesport man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating a federal firearms law, U.S. Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced Tuesday. The one-count indictment...