DEAR HARRIETTE: When it comes to relationships, I feel completely lost. I’m a 35-year-old divorced woman with two children, and while part of me feels like I might be ready to step back into the datin...

The Valley Garden Club will award its 14th annual scholarship to assist a student pursuing an education in fields related to the study of horticulture, agriculture, landscape architecture/design, bota...

• Monongahela High School Class of 1955 luncheon meeting, Eat ‘n Park, Monongahela, 1 p.m. • Beulah Park thrift store open, 1615 Grandview Ave., McKeesport, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Saucy Wednesday wing ni...

Family movie night will be held Friday at Fells United Methodist Church, 1268 Fells Church Road, Rostraver Township. There will be pizza at 6 p.m., the movie, “Breakthrough” will begin at 6:45 p.m. Pi...

When the Trump administration’s crypto czar, David Sacks, recently held a news conference to announce a new congressional working group to advance cryptocurrency regulation, many digital asset enthusi...

• James Albert Anthony, 57, of Monongahela was charged with three counts of persons not to possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or transfer firearms, manufacture, delivery, or possession with inte...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...

DO YOU OWE the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission? Maybe. It can happen. The Toll By Plate system makes it possible to rack up tolls that can become fees that can become more. Even an E-ZPass transponde...

By AAMER MADHANI and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a delegation to Saudi Arabia for direct talks with Russian officials in the coming da...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have very different approaches to social media; He’s all in, and I’m all out. I don’t “do” the internet. I don’t have Facebook, Instagram, X, Snapchat and whatever else peo...

• Archbishop Elko Donora Knights of Columbus Council 1941 meeting, K of C room, in St. Andrew the Apostle Donora church, 1 Park Manor Road, 7:30 p.m. • Pizza/pizza burger sale, Belle Vernon Moose, 102...

LONDON (AP) — Papal thriller “Conclave “ won four prizes including best picture Sunday at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, where genre-bending musical “Emilia Pérez “ proved that it’s still an aw...

Throughout Marc Fogel’s 3½ years of imprisonment in Russia, members of Pittsburgh’s arts community rallied together to bring attention to the cause of the Butler native. They hosted the “Make a Marc” ...

Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter duetted on Simon’s song “Homeward Bound” and five-decade “Saturday Night Live” luminary Steve Martin delivered the monologue to open the a 50th anniversary special cel...

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...

Several Mon Valley municipalities came up as big winners in their quest to get a slice of this year’s Washington County Local Share Account funding. The Washington County Board of Commissioners approv...

Whether you’re feeling queasy or euphoric, or even a bit of both about the opening weeks of the second Trump presidency, my advice is to remember Stein’s Law. Richard Nixon’s former chief economic adv...

To the Editor: I’m speechless, yet I have to go on. I have never seen such chaos and corruption in our government. Does anyone remember President Musk being on the ballot? How’s the cost of eggs worki...

The Knoch boys basketball team entered the WPIAL playoffs with the third-best scoring defense in Class 4A at 46.1 points allowed a game. The Knights were on their defensive game, and then some, in a f...

For the Mon Valley Independent The Washington-Greene County Sports Hall of Fame has announced its 2025 Hall of Fame class and special honorees. The 39th induction banquet will be held 3 p.m. June 8 at...