By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com An 18-year-old McKeesport resident who was staying at Auberle is in Allegheny County Jail after allegedly raping a 14-year-old boy. The alleged victim told his mother ...

By PAUL PEIRCE A Jefferson Hills man was arrested in Washington County on Friday after witnesses reported they saw him retrieve a cocker spaniel that jumped out of his pickup by grabbing its neck and ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Dravosburg man has been charged after allegedly threatening a McKeesport man and cutting a rope that was tethering his boat to a dock at the McKees Point Marina. Jos...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Mon Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce has announced the honorees for its annual awards banquet. Each year, the chamber recognizes four community members or groups ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Assistance is available for service members facing emergency circumstances such as extraordinary temperatures or flooding. After a heat wave and wet weather swept th...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District is hoping to land another grant to enhance safety.   Superintendent Dr. Ed Zelich announced Tusday that he and administrators appl...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport-based Consortium for Public Education is looking for adult volunteers who can help students from three schools in the Mon and Turtle Creek valleys think...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Ava Henderson went to Monday’s Grebb League basketball game to cheer on her older sister Leena. They are from Fallowfield Township

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A 92-year-old woman died Monday after a fire inside her Donora Towers apartment. Emergency crews were called to the senior high rise on Meldon Avenue at 7:43 a.m....

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport man who was on the U.S. Marshals Pittsburgh Office Top 20 list of fugitives for more than a year will have a preliminary hearing next week after being app...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man is accused of assaulting a police officer following a domestic incident at his residence early Friday morning. James Crusan, 43, of Fourth Street is ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State police have charged a White Oak man who allegedly shared child pornography via the Internet. Jeffery Vincent Khoury, 39, of Glass Street, used BitTorrent on Apri...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Five Belle Vernon Area teachers received permanent professional contracts at Monday’s school board meeting. Lorie Fowler, Alessandra Perri, Angela Musto, Jason Scott...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport man was sentenced in federal court Monday to 30 months’ imprisonment and six years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy and possession wi...

By Emily Bennett ebennett@yourmvi.com Mike Medved will be the first to tell you he wears many hats. Country music singer-songwriter, former professional basketball player, teacher, graphic designer, h...

By Emily Bennett ebennett@yourmvi.com New charges have filed and an arrest warrant has been issued for a second suspect in a February robbery in which $38,000 was allegedly taken from a truck followin...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Lilly Hill, 8, of Rostraver Township and Sydney Stark, 11, of Rostraver Township look at the tomato plants at the Rostraver Public Library.

By EMILY BENNETT ebennett@yourmvi.com Disgruntled business owners and Rostraver Township representatives will finally see progress made on the years-long sinkhole and flooding problem located off Rout...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Much of the Mon Valley was under flash-flood warnings Sunday night and emergency services were kept busy. Crews began getting called out as a strong thunderstorm ...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Following a hang-up call to 911, Monessen police were dispatched to the Foodland parking lot at 701 Donner Ave. just before midnight Saturday for a report of woman...