By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com For the past six weeks, posts have plastered Facebook and flyers were tacked up all over Elizabeth Township asking people to be on the lookout for a missing Lab...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Organizations in the Mon Valley and South Hills looking to make their communities stronger can attend the Jefferson Regional Host Kick-Off and Celebration fr...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com California University of Pennsylvania will host a band festival this weekend. Guest conductor Dennis Fisher will lead the school’s 73rd annual Pennsylvania Intercoll...

By JIM BUSCH For the MV Independent The McKeesport History and Heritage Center celebrated Black History Month Saturday with an exhibit that presented the history of African Americans through music, po...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Two members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club who were convicted of aggravated assault and conspiracy in connection with the beating of a former Pagan in Charleroi la...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com They say the Lord works in mysterious ways, and for the Rev. Mary Kay Glunt and her husband Donald, also a reverend, a 1985 trip to Missouri that was suppose...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Grants obtained by Madonna Catholic Regional School are aimed toward improving safety, upgrading technology, introducing students to the Farm to Table concept a...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The White Oak Police Department, in partnership with Mayor Ina Jean Marton, will hold two of its annual community outreach programs again this year. Marton announced a...

By JEFF OLIVER For MV Independent One of the fastest rising occupations these days is that of Doordash driver. The drivers pick up customers’ orders at participating restaurants and sandwich shops mad...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Brenda Jamison, second from left, celebrates with Clairton girls basketball players, from left, Taylor Jackson, Iyauna Chapman and Mya Norman after the Bears de...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Carroll Township police Chief Paul Brand said it is hard to find the right words to describe how disturbed he is that someone burglarized the homes of Craven Plan resi...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Judith L. Fisher is being remembered as a “perennial candidate,” most recently running for office last year when she sought to become the Washington County Regi...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Boy Scouts of America Laurel Highlands Council announced this week it does not anticipate the national organization’s bankruptcy filing to “have any direct impact ...

y ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com West Jefferson Hills Historical Society will celebrate “Happy Birthday, George & Abe!” at 1 p.m. today.   The society will commemorate the birthdays of presid...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Heinz History Center’s We Can Do It! WWII traveling exhibit is in its fourth weekend at Donora Public Library with two speaking events on the schedule for tod...

MIke Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent South Allegheny’s Antonio Epps celebrates with his younger brother, Reese, after the Gladiators won Thursday’s playoff game on a last-second shot.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A more than 100-year-old brick sewer line on the ArcelorMittal Mill property in Monessen collapsed this week and opened a sinkhole 35 feet deep and 60 feet long. ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Art lovers, wine connoisseurs and the just plain curious were on hand at Off the Wall Art Studio Thursday night to show their support for local charity. The ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Communities that jumped on the anti-smoking bandwagon for their parks and playgrounds several years ago are now expanding the ban to vaping. Rostraver Township ...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent After working for years at Duke of Oil in Carroll Township, Gary Koteles has become the owner.   “I’m a lot happier when cars show up,” said Koteles, who began at...