Entertainment Calendar
May 22, 2025
Tonight’s Music • The Next, Coconut Joe’s Tiki Bar, Finleyville, 6:30 p.m. • Acoustic open mic, The Drunken Hippie, Monongahela, 8 p.m. • The Heart of Rock N’ Roll, (Huey Lewis and the News tribute) T...
Years of horrific abuse have required a lifetime of recovery
News
May 22, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I see a psychiatrist and psychologist for generalized anxiety disorder, major depression disorder and borderline personality disorder. According to my doctors, my psychiatric disorders are ...
Son enraged that tenants refuse to pay rent
News
SENSE AND SENSITIVITY
May 22, 2025
DEAR HARRIETTE: I am struggling right now, emotionally and financially. My tenants haven’t paid their rent in months! I try to remain passive about it, as I am relying on the legal system to settle th...
Adams captures District 9 seat
Allegheny County Elections, Elections, Latest News, ...
ALLEGHENY COUNTY COUNCIL
By SARAH PELLIS spellis@yourmvi.com 
May 21, 2025
The Duquesne councilman fended off two challengers for the Democratic nomination. Aaron Adams has taken the Democratic seat for District 9 on Allegheny County council, according to unofficial election...
Cline holds 3-vote lead in GOP supervisors race
Allegheny County Elections, Elections, Latest News, ...
FORWARD TOWNSHIP
By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
May 21, 2025
There are 17 uncounted write-in ballots that could change the outcome. Tuesday’s primary election in Forward Township was nearly too close to call in the race to secure a spot on the Republican ticket...
News
May 21, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered another review of the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that kil...
Heated races for seats on Valley school boards
Allegheny County Elections, Elections, Fayette County Elections, ...
SCHOOL BOARD ROUNDUP
Read Thursday’s MVI for municipal election results
May 21, 2025
By the MVI The races for open seats on Valley-wide school boards were among the most competitive in Tuesday’s primary election. Here are the unofficial results of several school board races around the...
Time may be at hand to air out family’s dirty laundry
News
May 21, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My late husband and I were married 38 years when we finally went to marriage counseling. I found out then that he had slept with my sister early in our marriage. I had suspected he’d also h...
Mom’s behavior toward daughter hurts relationship
News
SENSE AND SENSITIVITY
May 21, 2025
DEAR HARRIETTE: Throughout my entire pregnancy, my mom treated me badly. I was 18 when I found out I was pregnant, and she was not happy. Not only was I not married, but I wasn’t in a particularly sta...
A look at the status of U.S. executions in 2025
News
By By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press 
May 21, 2025
Seventeen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 11 other people are scheduled to be put to death in eight states during the remainder of 2025. Glen Rogers died by ...
‘Cheers’ star Wendt dies at 76
News
May 21, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broa...
News
Donora
May 21, 2025
• Nathan Daniel Toth, 44, of Clairton was charged with terroristic threats and fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer stemming from an alleged traffic incident May 15, court records state. • ...
News, Politics
May 20, 2025
TODAY IS THE PRIMARY ELECTION, and while it might not attract the widespread attention and participation of a presidential race, what happens today holds the potential to most personally affect area r...
News
May 20, 2025
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in women and the fifth leading cause in men. However, men are more likely to experience a stroke at a younger age while the incidence increases as both gende...
Daughter shows what she really thinks about house rules
News
May 20, 2025
DEAR ABBY: We asked our 19-year-old college daughter, “Lulu,” to dog-sit and housesit several months ago. She knew our rule of no visitors allowed in our home while we were out of town. Because of thi...
Mom’s emotional distance bothers her family
News
SENSE AND SENSITIVITY
May 20, 2025
DEAR HARRIETTE: My mom has always been emotionally distant, and now that I’m an adult, I’m realizing just how much that’s shaped our relationship. Growing up, she wasn’t unkind. She made sure we were ...
Trump’s massive import taxes haven’t done much economic damage — yet
News
May 20, 2025
By PAUL WISEMAN, CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AND ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, American consumers and businesses have been hearing that President Trump’s massive import t...
Abusive husband may be starting to see the light
News
May 19, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I have been married 10 years. My husband is from another country, and the last six years haven’t been easy. I’ve been the sole provider for our family, on the advice of our lawyer, while we...
News
May 19, 2025
• Soup and sandwich sale, Newell United Methodist Church, 204 Miller St., Newell, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. • Luncheon, eat-in or takeout, First Church of God, 157 N. Second St., West Newton, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m...