SPRING WILL SOON BE upon us and just like warmer weather and longer days, this time of year also brings with it high school musicals. We know how much spring musical season means to students, teachers...

For many years in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, discussions of the use of U.S. military force suffered from an effect known as Vietnam Syndrome. Many Americans simply could not consider any pro...

A CAPITAL CASE IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY may be delayed because another prosecutor assigned to it is leaving the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Berosh said...

To the Editor: A filter is defined as a material that allows certain substances to pass while keeping other substances out. In referring to a filter as a mechanism used by an individual as one conveys...

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. — “No star fades faster than that of a high-school athlete,” the author John Grisham wrote in his 2006 book “The Innocent Man.” Today’s column is about a high school athlete whose st...

SPIRIT AIRLINES HAS BEEN experiencing turbulence. In November 2024, the budget carrier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ten months later, the company filed again. This week, Spirit’s parent company — ...

How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support—and are not Western nations supposedly rationally...

By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY, SARAH EL DEEB, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous — people dancing in Iranian streets, honking car horn...

IT CAN BE HARD TO UNDERSTAND in a world of soda cans and smartphones that there was a time when aluminum was rarer than diamonds. That changed in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It wasn’t that aluminum was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton testified Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financi...

Imight as well say it clearly: I’m for regime change in Iran. The Islamic fanatics who have been running Iran since 1979 are murderers, torturers and exporters of terrorism. They are despised, or at l...

It was great to see McKeesport firefighters coming together with students in McKeesport Area High School’s new Protective Services Class. The fire department donated several pieces of used equipment t...

MORE THAN A DECADE AFTER Charleroi lost its last Veterans of Foreign Wars post, a group of local veterans is working to bring one back — and organizers say the effort is about more than reopening a cl...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AND PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought in his first State of the Union address to sell Americans on the idea of a booming econ...

Donald Trump has waged war on the news media his entire career, frequently deriding journalists as “enemies of the people” and “real scum.” In his second term, he has gone far beyond name-calling, sui...

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...

TARIFFS HAVE CREATED economic confusion over the past year. Some don’t really understand what they are or how they impact prices in the U.S. Some support them as an American trade policy even if they ...

To the Editor: Lately I’ve been inspired by letter writers with positive views and optimistic messages and also by writers who give credit where credit is due. Therefore praises to the entire staff of...

In the end, the conflict between federal immigration authorities and protesters in Minneapolis boiled down to one fundamental policy question: Should sanctuary cities be allowed to exist? Should citie...

By REGGIE WILLIAMS AND DAVID M. SHRIBMAN When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev. ...