By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fallowfield Township supervisors plan to make a big announcement next month. During Wednesday’s business meeting, Chairman Bruce Smith took a few minutes to explain ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A report released by the nonprofit group EdBuild paints two Mon Valley school districts in a negative light, and the districts’ superintendents are looking t...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports Monessen girls basketball coach Janine Vertacnik returned to one of her former coaching stops Wednesday night and her Greyhounds had visions of giving their leader he...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A Monessen woman accused of harboring hundreds of animals in her Donora and Monessen homes was ordered to stand trial on animal cruelty charges. Christie Dee...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com An Allenport man believed to be in his 70s was transported to a Pittsburgh area hospital on Wednesday after being pinned underneath a tree stump on his property. Sto...

Christopher M. DiBasilio Monongahela (Victory Hill) Funeral services were held for Christopher M. DiBasilio, 54, of Monongahela (Victory Hill) who died unexpectedly Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in UPMC Pres...

Thomas Sampson Charleroi Thomas E. Sampson, 76, of Charleroi, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, at the home of his daughter, Ruth. He was born April 16, 1943 in Monongahela, the son of Elmer and Catherine ...

Jocelyn L. Stetsko Tom Monessen Jocelyn L. Stetsko Tom, 42, of Monessen, passed away Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, at her home. Born Nov. 8, 1977, in Monongahela, she was the daughter of the late John Turkov...

Arthur J. Sloan Long Branch Arthur J. Sloan, 80, of Long Branch, passed away peacefully on Jan. 28, 2020, at the Monongahela Valley Hospital. Arthur was born on April 11, 1939, the son of the late Dai...

Mary Swartz California, Pa. Mary Swartz, 93, of California, Pa., died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. She was born Friday, Nov. 26, 1926, in Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter of the late Andrew and Mary Ference Midl...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Two nonprofit organizations that call Charleroi home received a combined $55,000 in grant funding Tuesday. Club Serenity, a substance abuse disorder recovery organiz...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com With the rambunctious Jan. 6 meeting in the rear-view mirror, Monessen council has finally reached an agreement –– everyone wants things to go a little sm...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Nearly four dozen people attended an informational session presented by U.S. Steel on Tuesday to hear details of a $1.2 billion investment that is expected to make the...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Fallowfield Township woman was jailed Tuesday after allegedly hitting a man in the face with a wrench, fleeing the scene and subsequently causing a lockdown of the...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The state Secretary of Transportation is being asked for emergency funding to repair the Bunola River Road landslide near Lock 3 after residents petitioned loca...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com For the second time in less than two months, South Allegheny middle and high school students were dismissed from school early Tuesday after a bedbug was found in SA ...

By JOE SABOLEK MVI Sports Matt Loftis had two words for his Elizabeth Forward squad in the closing seconds of their Section 3-4A matchup at Waynesburg Central Tuesday.   “Next play.” The Warriors shoo...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Night in and night out, Aaron Balla does his best to maintain a calm presence on the California sidelines.   “I don’t know if I do or not, but I try not to show pani...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports Two teams on fire in Section 4-3A met Tuesday night in Charleroi as the Cougars played Southmoreland. Charleroi was putting an eight-game section win streak on the li...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area’s girls basketball team is on a five-game winning streak heading into arguably its two biggest games of the season. And while Leopards head coach...