FAMILY FEATURES When building your budget, utility bills – especially the electric bill – are likely one of your largest monthly expenditures. One of the biggest culprits: home heating and cooling, wh...

Tonight’s Events • Pokemon League Night, Steel City Collectables, White Oak, 5 p.m. • Pittsburgh Winter Wine Fest, Market Square, Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Friday Music • Tim & Stacey, Russ’ Tavern, Belle Ve...

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my husband for more than 20 years. He’s mostly very nice, although he has generalized anxiety disorder. In the past, he threatened to kill someone (not me!) as well a...

Te’mon Jackson says an officer sicced a dog on him during a traffic stop. A Clairton man is suing his local police department, claiming he was mauled by a police dog after being pulled over for going ...

Westmoreland officials for the second time in less than a year suspended the director of the county’s purchasing department. Daniel Ellingsen, who has been on the job since mid-November, was placed on...

• Tacarra Washington, 36, of Duquesne was charged with accidents involving death or personal injury and accident involving damage to attended vehicle or property, stemming from an alleged incident Feb...

Police have identified the body of a man found shot to death last week in a McKeesport cemetery. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Daniel Anthony Smith, 21, of Duquesne as the ...

The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...

OVER THE YEARS, WE HAVE WRITTEN many times on the pages of this newspaper how the Mon Valley always steps up and comes together in times of crisis or when one of our neighbors needs a helping hand. Th...

President Donald Trump is moving quickly with his plan to end the war in Ukraine. What, exactly, that plan involves is still not publicly known. But given the current status of the conflict, along wit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Washington seeking to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to stand by Europe’s side in his talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukr...

DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 52 years. While looking for a tax document, I found a manila envelope that had a note written on the outside. It said, “If something happens to me, please destroy th...

Tens of thousands of planes take off, land and perform touch-and-goes at the Marana Regional Airport in southern Arizona every year. Without an air traffic control tower, it’s a calculated dance that ...

• Shawn Dale Taylor, 52, of Pittsburgh was charged with knowingly or intentionally possessing a controlled or counterfeit substance by a person not registered, use/ possession of drug paraphernalia an...

She won consecutive Grammys for best record in the early 1970s. NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, the Grammy- winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top rec...

John Boettger says his automobile shop in South Greensburg has seen a number of unwanted visitors over the past year. Boettger on Monday told members of Westmoreland County’s prison board that release...

• Briendin Allen Everett, 25, of McKeesport was charged with burglary, terroristic threats, theft by unlawful taking and simple assault stemming from an alleged incident Sunday, court records state. •...

Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a woman who was possibly abducted in the McKeesport area. Kylee Fair, 22, was last seen Thursday in the McKeesport area “after being dropped off by a known pa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump backed Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments by the end of Monday or risk getting fired, even as government agency off...