By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com For the first time in as long as she can remember, Cecilia Pennline Sciortino won’t be in the kitchen preparing her birthday meal this year. Instead, today as she tu...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Next week, when all of Pennsylvania is released from the stay-at-home order, restaurants in yellow-phase counties can offer outdoor dining as an option for custom...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Two Washington County commissioners are firing back at state Rep. Bud Cook, R-West Pike Run Township, after he suggested they recuse themselves from the coun...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The community park in Collinsburg is slated for a major renovation this year, with the tennis courts converted to a handicapped-accessible playground and pavili...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport police Chief Adam Alfer and Mayor Michael Cherepko said city police officers will benefit in multiple ways from a $119,006 Coronavirus Emergency Supplementa...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Ringgold Elementary School South held a drive-thru kindergarten graduation Tuesday afternoon. Darrius Miller, right, gave flowers to his teacher, Jen Denitti, a...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com In late April, Norm Candelore and his daughter, Kelsi, were sorting through unemployment claims at Candelore’s Barking Beauties’ Finleyville location when a car pull...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A class-action federal lawsuit filed against California University of Pennsylvania seeks tuition refunds for all students who had to finish the spring semester on...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Despite social distancing, Michael “Moo” Purbaugh has made some new friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. Michael, who has cerebral palsy and a host of other medical...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Plum Street in downtown Elizabeth will remain open to traffic for at least the beginning of this summer. Larry Ross, president of the Elizabeth Area Development...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The number of new coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania continues to trend downward as Tuesday brought just 451 new cases and 13 new deaths.   There have now been 68,...

Charles Lee, center, veteran and Legion Rider, salutes after placing a flag in honor of a fallen soldier Monday in Fallowfield Township. At left is American Legion chaplain Barry Brinker. At right is ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Complying with pandemic restrictions that kept crowds to 25 or fewer, the City of McKeesport on Monday carried on with its annual tradition of saluting fallen veterans...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com As Pennsylvania draws closer to a time when the entire state will at least be in the yellow phase of reopening, the Department of Health is taking a close look at...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Rostraver Township business owner was recently selected as a Woman of the Year by a national quarterly magazine. Alexis Faust Punturiero, owner of Rostraver Dance ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monongahela has reopened all of its parks and the Aquatorium. Mayor Greg Garry ordered the reopening this weekend. “As we have moved into phase yellow...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Ringgold High School senior Luke Wyvratt gets his cap and gown Friday morning from senior class sponsor Natalie Hess.

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Although it wasn’t declared a national holiday honoring all fallen American veterans until 1971, veterans’ organizations and municipalities across the country have obs...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com All southwestern Pennsylvania counties are now in the yellow phase of the state’s reopening plan. During a virtual press conference Friday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced 17 ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The driver of the Dodge Journey SUV that crashed through the foundation of an unoccupied apartment building Thursday night in Charleroi has died. Washington County Cor...