Money and mixed emotions will hold you back. Distance yourself from drama and situations that play on your weaknesses. Say no to interference and yes to following your heart and dreams. It’s time to p...

Pay it down or pay it forward. When staying on top of debt, promises or whatever else you have on your agenda, it’s vital that you don’t ignore what you must do. Take the initiative to tidy up loose e...

Holding his crosier, Pope Paul VI imparts the “Urbi et Orbi” (to the City of Rome and the world) blessing from the central balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica, after having celebrated a solemn open-air ...

Family Features The holiday season can be a time of joy and connection, but it can also bring intense feelings of loss and sadness for those grieving the death of a loved one. To help families honor m...

In December, reindeer appear everywhere in the United States: on holiday cards, store windows and TV ads, becoming part of the season’s joy. In northern Finland, above the Arctic Circle, the same mont...

Sweets by Lear will be sold from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Penn Highlands Mon Valley lobby, 1163 Country Club Road, Carroll Township. Cherry, apple, and sweet potato pies, multiple different cake...

(AP) Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production. The U.S. Mint sold 232 three-cent sets for a whoppin...

In this Dec, 24, 1946, file photo, last minute Christmas Eve shoppers gather in front of Macy’s window display in New York. A $400 million makeover gave New York’s iconic Macy’s store a sleek, new 21s...

The Queen Alliquippa Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) held its monthly chapter earlier this month with Regent Becky Caliguiri presiding. The meeting was also the chapter’s annual ho...

By the MVI Nearly 3,000 undergraduate students at PennWest University have been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2025 semester, recognizing their outstanding academic achievement. To be eligible ...

The following students were named to the first 2025-26 trimester honor roll at Bentworth High School, Bentleyville: Grade 12 High honors Avery Barker, Ada Bommer, Eli Cario, Benjamin Hays, Azekial Mal...

The Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette Inc. (PIC) announced it has been awarded a $25,000 grant from Comcast to support and expand its free digital literacy classes in Westmoreland and F...

Attention to detail, observation, unique thinking and taking matters will serve you well. Unfinished business will be your downfall this year. Keep your documents and payments up to date and your eye ...

DEAR ABBY: My sister, “Blanche,” and I didn’t grow up together after she turned 13. I was 6 at that time, and our grandmother raised her. We talked on the phone a lot until I was 45 and my husband die...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I have a friend who is an immigrant, and he has been out of work for nearly two years. He has cobbled together enough money to scrape by, but if he doesn’t find a job soon, I worry tha...

Christmas looks different depending on where you are in the world. It might be a frosted garden outside an Irish manor, a family suite transformed into a tropical holiday playground or a mountain lodg...

• Christmas Eve service, First Presbyterian Church of Belle Vernon, 501 Fayette St., Rostraver Township, 7 p.m. • Christmas Eve services, Saints Joachim and Anne Parish, Elizabeth/Glassport/Liberty Bo...

Eucharistic Adoration scheduled for Jan. 2 at St. Andrew the Apostle Donora church, Second Street Extension and Park Manor Road in Donora, is postponed. It will take place from 9 a.m. to midnight Feb....

Aleena Amati, (center) granddaughter of Ronald Amati (right), president and CEO of Spartan Enterprises Inc., recently presented a donation to the City Mission for Christmas. They are shown with City M...

Tessa Rankin, daughter of Valerie and Joel Rankin, was recently recognized as the Monessen Lions December Student of the Month. Tessa is president of the Art Club, vice president of the Spanish Club, ...