Family Features Pairing Shepherd’s pie pie and potato soup with green pints and Irish delights are surefire signs of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Food and drink may be the stars of the show, but a ...

By ZUZANA PAAR St. Augustine, Fla. For the AP American travelers planning a European vacation dropped from 45% in 2024 to 37% in 2025, a staggering decline since 2021. The European Travel Commission, ...

• Kerry Martin, 32, of McKeesport was charged with strangulation and simple assault stemming from an alleged incident Saturday, court records state. A preliminary hearing before Riazzi is scheduled fo...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of highe...

A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames Sunday in the parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport in suburban Pennsylvania, and everyone on board sur...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Air Force fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft flying in the temporarily restricted airspace near Donald Trump’s Florida home Sunday, bringing the number of violat...

• The Monessen School Board approved a five-year contract for Superintendent Dr. Cynthia Chelen. Chelen will receive $90,000 in the first year of the agreement and will receive the following amounts i...

IN FEBRUARY, Millvale police arrested a 16-year-old Shaler Area High School student who was accused of having a semiautomatic weapon on a bus. The school resource officer was notified Jan. 30. The stu...

BROWNVILLE, Maine — “See you in court.” Those four mumbled words have set in motion more than 100 legal challenges that have been issued to fight the initiatives of the president’s first eight weeks i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president...

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I went for our annual checkups seven months ago. We were both overweight and told by our respective doctors that we needed to make some lifestyle changes to improve our health. ...

• Bellmar High School Class of 1966 meets for lunch, By George, Monessen, 2:30 p.m. (all Bellmar classes welcome). • California United Women in Faith meeting, California United Methodist Church social...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, wh...

• Austin Alexander Boyd, 28, of Eighty Four was charged with burglary, robbery, criminal trespassing, theft by unlawful taking, possessing an instrument of a crime, receiving stolen property, simple a...

DEAR ABBY: I find myself increasingly less patient with my oldest brother and older sister. They lie incessantly about things they have accomplished, always making themselves out to be the best. It fr...

Thirty-seven million Americans have Type 2 diabetes, and another 97 million are at risk. High blood sugar is an early warning sign to watch for. Thankfully, small and sustainable lifestyle changes can...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days l...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is spending more than $10 million to replace its electronic voter registration database with an election management system that will also provide election night res...