Man arrested after confrontation with police
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
December 31, 2025
A man from El Salvador who was reported missing Sunday in Pittsburgh was charged after police found him wandering along Fellsburg Road in Rostraver Township later that day. Alexander Contreras, 23, is...
Family support at BVA game
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December 31, 2025
Kristen Manley shares a smile with her son, Mason Manley, 12, during halftime of Tuesday’s Belle Vernon Area boys basketball game against Norwin at the Peters Township Tournament at AHN Arena. Mason’s...
Flu is rising rapidly, driven by new variant
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December 31, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus — and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel. That variant, known as “subclade K,” led to ...
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By By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press 
December 31, 2025
If history is a guide, Republicans stand a good chance of losing control of the House of Representatives in 2026. They have just a slim majority in the chamber, and the incumbent party usually gives u...
The heart of Trump’s deportation push
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December 31, 2025
You’ve probably heard commentators say that under President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is arresting and deporting a huge number of illegal immigrants who have no crimin...
Leopards at Holiday Hoopfest
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December 30, 2025
Belle Vernon Area girls basketball team managers Kenzie Sellew, Gracie Martin, Taylor Bergman and Deaulla Lightfoot smile for a photo before the Leopards took on Allderdice during the Cal U Holiday Ho...
High winds leave path of destruction, power outages
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
December 30, 2025
Thousands were left without power in the Mon Valley and surrounding areas. High winds moving through southwestern Pennsylvania on Monday knocked out power to thousands of customers across the Mon Vall...
Forward Township OKs budget in 2-1 vote
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
December 30, 2025
Dave Levdansky, who crafted an alternate version, voted against it. Forward Township supervisors approved the township’s 2026 budget Monday in a 2-1 vote, despite the existence of two competing spendi...
Charleroi gives final approval to 2026 budget
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
December 30, 2025
Charleroi Council unanimously approved the borough’s 2026 spending plan Monday, adopting a $3.87 million budget that holds the real estate tax rate steady at 9.85 mills and avoids any cuts to services...
Salvation Army gets last-minute chance to meet goal
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
December 30, 2025
An anonymous donor is willing to contribute $6,000 if the organization can raise an additional $5,000 by Jan. 10. The Mon Valley Salvation Army got good news over the weekend when an anonymous donor p...
West Mifflin schools celebrate ‘ARTcember’
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
December 30, 2025
The district is making an effort to showcase the artistic talents of its students at every grade level. “ARTcember” is one of the many themes that West Mifflin Area School District has been implementi...
Death of teen struck by car in West Mifflin ruled accidental
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December 30, 2025
A GoFundMe page has been set up for his family. By MEGAN TROTTER TribLive The death of a 13-year-old boy struck by a car in West Mifflin over the weekend has been ruled an accident, the Allegheny Coun...
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December 30, 2025
• Ted Pascaline Honorat, 22, of Charleroi was charged with strangulation, disorderly conduct – engaging in fighting and harassment stemming from an alleged incident Saturday, court records state. • Ch...
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December 30, 2025
WHEN IT COMES TO EDITORIALS, our focus is always on our people — what hurts, what helps, what can be fixed. Sometimes that means being hyperlocal, examining issues that may start on a single street or...
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December 30, 2025
To the Editor: Some people believe the country is going nuts. But I continue to believe in the good sense of most people. I am particularly encouraged by the good humor shown in the letters of Grace B...
Slouching toward open season on Jews
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December 30, 2025
Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres. An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of ...
Trump administration rolls out rural health funding, with strings attached
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December 30, 2025
By DEVI SHASTRI and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press States will share $10 billion for rural health care next year in a program that aims to offset the Trump administration’s massive budget cuts to ru...
Trump warns Iran of further U.S. strikes if it reconstitutes nuclear program
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December 30, 2025
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Iran on Monday that the U.S. could carry out further military strikes if the country attempts to reconstitute its nuclear program as he held wide-...