By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Two people from West Newton and a woman from Fayette County pleaded guilty in Westmoreland County Court Monday to illegally obtaining prescription drugs for illicit us...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak Mayor Ina Jean Marton reminded residents at Monday’s council meeting that the borough’s Season of Lights Celebration will be held Saturday.   A pancake and s...

Mike Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent Thomas Jefferson’s Bowen Dame and Preston Zandier celebrate on the sidelines during Saturday’s 41-7 win over Belle Vernon Area in the Class 4A WPIAL title ...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com With Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner, communities are preparing for the sights, sounds and smells of the holiday season.   Lights, food, m...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Every year, veterans in Monessen volunteer to collect old flags on the graves of veterans.   “We start at 8:30. It’s cold and stuff,” said Monessen American Legio...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com As Santa meets with children Friday at Chess Park, Mrs. Claus will be holding court at the Monongahela Area Library gazebo, and the wife of the jolly old elf ha...

By RON PAGLIA Leave it to those ever- faithful 19 readers of this weekly offering to create a stir with trivial matters. Today’s question from the spokesperson for the crew goes this way: “Someone tol...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Aubree McAfee, 3, of Perryopolis gives her Christmas list to Santa during North Belle Vernon’s Light up the Night Celebration Friday at Community Bank Park

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Washington County District Attorney’s Office is looking to remove a Mon Valley Sewage Authority Board member convicted of defrauding a retired woman earlier this...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Lights, camera, action — Mc-Keesport is once again the setting for a motion picture production. Pittsburgh Film Office Director Dawn Keezer confirmed Friday that Amazo...

WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — An eastern Georgia industrial plant will close by the end of 2020, laying off up to 200 workers. General Electric Co. tells local media it will close its high-voltage electrical...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Residents in Pleasant Hills will soon see improvements to the Pleasant Hills Boulevard pedestrian bridge. This week, state Sen. Pam Iovino, D-Mt. Lebanon, an...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Crystal Smith, coordinator of the CRR program at SPHS, talks to Mathew Eddy of Belle Vernon during Thursday’s Thanksgiving dinner at Riverside Place in Charlero...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com With early signs of winter being felt across the Mid-Mon Valley, residents and officials of the Five-Town Region — at least four of them — are hoping for a snowball ...

By Kristie Linden klinden@yourmvi.com Donora council hired a borough administrator at Thursday’s meeting despite a battle about how the vote came up. At the end of the written agenda, Councilman John ...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com An old saying states “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” But don’t tell that to the approximately 25 military veterans who were treated to lunch by the ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport firefighters and an Allegheny County Hazardous Materials crew responded to a small chlorine leak at the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County’s McKeesp...

For the MVI Homes for the Holidays in the Mon Valley/Belle Vernon area is presenting its fifth annual tour.   The event is set for 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 8. A $25 donation per person will enable visito...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent State Rep. Bud Cook, R-West Pike Run Township, delivered a celebratory certificate to recently retired area Police Chief Rick Encapera at Thursday’s meeting of Ca...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com As winter weather begins to move into the area, students in the Ringgold School District won’t need to worry about making up snow days. The district has been ap...