By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports South Allegheny’s boys basketball team has made it crystal clear that it’s much better than last year. When everything is clicking, the offense is smooth and dynamic and th...

By Joe Sabolek MVI Sports Ringgold continued its winning ways as it rolled over Southmoreland, 69-50, in the nightcap on the second day of action of the CFSBank Holiday Classic at Charleroi High Schoo...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports The long layoffs that have affected Elizabeth Forward early this season were evident in Friday’s matchup with a more experienced Shenango team. The Wildcats (8-2) sho...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Turnovers and second quarter struggles from the field left Elizabeth Forward with a disadvantage it couldn’t overcome Friday in a 64-41 loss to South Park on opening...

By the Mon Valley Independent Ringgold put an end to its four-game losing streak with a 43-22 win over California at the Bentworth Tournament Friday night.   The Rams (3-5) outscored the Trojans, 25-8...

Mike Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent From left, Anthony, Amy, Alyssa and Bre Brinson turned out to cheer on Elizabeth Forward’s Bailie Brinson in Friday night’s game against South Park in the ...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Monessen Mayor Matt Shorraw is engaged in another clash with council over the redevelopment authority board. Before council voted Thursday to reappoint fo...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A second teen boy will be tried as an adult in connection with the burglary and beating of a Monongahela man earlier this month. Charges against Jamie Watkins, 14...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com The new manager for the Pasta Shoppe in Monessen received a peddling and soliciting fine from the city for barbecuing outside the restaurant last weekend....

By RICH CHOLODOFSKY Trib Total Media Months of campaigning and election-night nerves were a thing of past Thursday as Westmoreland County’s new slate of government officials were sworn into office. Th...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Taxpayers in Monongahela will not see an increase next year. At a special meeting Friday, council unanimously passed a $3.2 million budget for 2020 that includes $1....

William Keith “Butch” Barber Jr., 79, of Twilight, passed away on Dec. 25, 2019, at Monongahela Valley Hospital with his family by his side. Keith was born on Aug. 31, 1940, in North Charleroi, son of...

Suzanne Duda, 67, of Fayette City, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019, in Jefferson Hospital with her family by her side. She was born on Dec. 19, 1952, in Charleroi, the daughter of th...

Elizabeth R. McGowan, 84, of Heath, Ohio, died Dec. 25, 2019, in Chapel Grove Nursing Home. Born in Monessen on Aug. 17, 1935, she was the daughter of the late John and Jean Siarnicki O’Hare. She reti...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent In the stands Thursday night at the CFSBank Holiday Classic are, in front from left, Laci Zanardini of Stockdale, Tayla Pascoe of Roscoe, Gianna Grillo of Calif...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley lost a much- loved four-legged friend on Christmas Eve. Benji, a yellow Labrador retriever and therapy dog at Monongahela Valley Hospital, area nursin...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth borough police department made a special Christmas delivery this year: returning a car to an 82-year-old woman from York County who had broken dow...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Monessen gave final approval to its 2020 budget Thursday night at a meeting accented with thoughtful goodbyes and hopeful declarations for the coming year...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A 16-year-old student from Belle Vernon Area School District was recognized by the school board and administrators last week for doing “exceptionally well” on a mandat...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Pleasant Hills residents will soon see a new Amish furniture maker as a tenant in a building on Route 51 that’s been vacant for years. Pleasant Hills borough...