No tax increase in Charleroi Area budget
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June 25, 2026
District officials cited “years of careful planning” helped the board deliver a balanced budget with no property tax hike. For the MVI The Charleroi Area School District Board of Directors approved a ...
McKeesport police hear from residents at community event
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June 25, 2026
About 20 residents attended the community outreach at First Step Recovery Homes. By THOMAS LETURGEY For the MVI The McKeesport Police Department hosted its second “Your Presence Matters” community mee...
Amid packed crowd, EF delays budget vote; hears from teachers over contract negotiations
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By By SARAH PELLIS spellis@gmail.com 
June 25, 2026
The Elizabeth Forward School Board moved the meeting to the middle school auditorium to accommodate the crowd. In front of a packed crowd, the Elizabeth Forward School Board tabled voting on the 2026-...
Fire tears through West Mifflin home
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June 25, 2026
Firefighters battled large flames at a two-story home in West Mifflin on Wednesday. Heavy smoke and flames tore through the house on Shara Drive, not far from Lebanon Road. The fire chief said one fir...
Snapchat hacker gets prison for trading intimate images online
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June 25, 2026
By PAULA REED WARD TribLive If Michael Yackovich had committed his crimes in person, one of his victims wrote, he would have been considered a sexual predator for being a voyeur. But because Yackovich...
Mon Valley man accused of driving erratically during test drive
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June 25, 2026
A Rostraver Township man is accused of driving erratically at speeds exceeding 100 mph while test driving a vehicle with a C Harper Jeep Dodge Chrysler Ram dealership sales employee. Dustin M. Schacht...
Pa. House passes $1.7B tax cut on electricity, reins in utility company profits
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June 25, 2026
by Peter Hall, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 23, 2026 State lawmakers want to put a cap on how much utility companies can profit from customers, while giving Pennsylvanians a tax cut on electricity. ...
Small cyber charter leaders in Pa. raise alarm over calls for funding reform
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June 25, 2026
By Emily Scolnick, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 24, 2026 Emily Scolnick is a 2026 Dow Jones News Fund intern at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Nearly 70,000 students are enrolled in one of Pennsylva...
Pennwest runner cross-trains on Great Allegheny Passage
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June 24, 2026
Rosalyn Perozzi of Belle Vernon rides her bicycle Tuesday afternoon along the Great Allegheny Passage trail at Cedar Creek Park in Rostraver Township. A member of the PennWest California cross country...
Air monitoring project reveals concerns
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
June 24, 2026
Data collection will continue in the area through December. Protect PT and the Environmental Health Project held a joint information session on Monessen’s air quality Tuesday at Monessen High School. ...
International Village to relocate some activities
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June 24, 2026
The annual celebration in McKeesport’s Renziehausen Park is scheduled for Aug. 18-20. By THOMAS LETURGEY For the MVI Coming off a successful Juneteenth celebration in McKeesport, Mayor Thomas Maglicco...
Clairton OKs new CBAs with Teamsters union
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By By THOMAS LETURGEY For the MVI 
June 24, 2026
The city is also planning legislation to control the spread of vape shops. Clairton officials approved collective bargaining agreements Tuesday night with Teamsters Local Union 205, representing cleri...
Senate approves bill to update nonprofit reporting requirements
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
June 24, 2026
Sponsored by two local senators, the bill received unanimous support. The state Senate unanimously passed a bill Monday that would update financial reporting requirements for nonprofit organizations r...
Trump pays visit to battleground Pa.
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June 24, 2026
MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump visited a Mack Trucks facility in battleground Pennsylvania on Tuesday, attempting to shift attention to the U.S. economy in his first major public event ou...
Studies begin to help form future of closing Penn State campuses
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June 24, 2026
The sites are set to close at end of the spring 2027 semester, and no decisions for the properties have been announced. By KELLEN STEPLER TribLive Fayette and Westmoreland county officials are studyin...
New details emerge in patricide case
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June 24, 2026
Court records detail a family member’s discovery of Alhaji Buhari’s body. By JUSTIN VELLUCCI TribLive A witness found their adult son missing and husband “unresponsive, covered in blood and cold to th...
Annual Glenn Edward Porter III memorial golf outing held
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June 23, 2026
Friends, family members and volunteers gathered before the start of Monday’s Glenn Edward Porter III Memorial Golf Outing at Nemacolin Country Club in Beallsville. Among those pictured are parents Lau...
Costs of Elizabeth Forward Phase I construction clarified
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By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
June 23, 2026
Progress continues to be made at the high school. Al Ragan, director of finance and operations for Elizabeth Forward School District, has clarified the cost of ongoing construction at the high school....