By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Washington Township family is mourning the tragic loss of a four-legged family member. Paul Zuro said his dog Otto, a 3-year old German shepherd, was violently kil...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Elizabeth borough is one step closer to hiring a new police chief.   A five-person panel has been established and the first round of interviews for the position will...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Some Mon Valley residents remain without power as electric companies work overtime to restore service.   Hundreds of thousands of residents throughout the Pittsburgh...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Monday was a bittersweet night for the Belle Vernon Area school board. After appointing three candidates to fill vacancies created last week following the sudden res...

For the MV Independent Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Ostermayer Laboratory is set to undergo a $14 million renovation project in the spring of 2020 with a projected completion date of January 2021. T...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Bryan Neason’s retirement didn’t last long. While he brought in sufficient money through rental properties he manages, retirement still bored him.   “I figured, w...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Students at Monessen Elementary Center got a chance Monday to play African instruments and learn about the history of black influences on American music. Guy Loui...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The havoc wreaked by wind gusts that reached more than 60 mph and swept across the Mon Valley on Sunday lingered throughout the area Monday. The National Weather Servi...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area School Board is hopeful for the future after filling three vacancies Monday. Daniel E. Engstrom, Daniel G. Kovatch and Stacey Livengood were select...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After sending letters to area newspapers advocating a ballot question on legalizing recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania, state Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, plan...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Woody’s Italian Restaurant co-owner Dan Antonelli said he and his employees are “lost” and “devastated” by a fire that ripped through the interior of the Versailles-ba...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township police are looking for an 18-year-old Duquesne man accused of shooting another man during a robbery earlier this month. Police say Solomon Redd...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Port Vue woman entered a guity plea Monday in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws in a case that involved a wiretap. Pittsburgh-based United...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Thousands of Mon Valley residents were without power Sunday as wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour swept through the area. The high winds caused building damage, u...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Penn State Greater Allegheny’s chancellor and chief academic officer Dr. Jacqueline Edmondson has been working to strengthen relations between the McKeesport campus an...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Donna Vesely has obsessively watched almost all of the Oscar-nominated films from the past five years. She’s realized it’s hard for people in the Mon Valley to se...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The cast of this year’s Charleroi Area High School musical is getting ready to go on an adventure — to Neverland.   When the curtain rises at 7 p.m. Friday for the o...

By RON PAGLIA Thanks to the magic of e-mail and the reliability of the U.S. Postal Service, our journeys down Memory Lane remain rather smooth.   That, of course, is another way of saying readers have...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Over the past few school years, Betsy Bacon, a first-grade teacher at McKeesport Area School District’s Twin Rivers Elementary, noticed that some of the 6- and 7-year-...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Monessen man who allegedly attempted “suicide by cop” earlier this month will stand trial on multiple charges relating to the incident after waiving a preliminary ...