By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Despite Thomas Jefferson earning the No. 6 seed in the playoffs and the right to host No. 11 Fox Chapel in first round action Friday night, it was all Foxes as they do...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com There will be Mon Valley representation when Pennsylvania meets Maryland in the annual PSFCA Big 33 Football Classic in May. McKeesport senior athlete Jahmil Perryma...

Monessen Elementary Center hosted a pep rally Friday morning for the WPIAL section champion boys and girls high school basketball teams. Students from kindergarten through fifth grade lined the hallwa...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A state lawmaker from the Mon Valley, backed by a bipartisan team of other local state lawmakers, is calling on Pennsylvania’s new governor to push for completion of t...

By Paula Reed Ward Trib Total Media The man accused of killing Mc-Keesport police Officer Sean Sluganski told detectives he didn’t remember shooting the 32-year-old officer on the city’s Grandview Ave...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Gov. Josh Shapiro called on state lawmakers to repeal the death penalty Thursday and said he will continue former Gov. Tom Wolf’s effective moratorium on execut...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Rostraver Airport will benefit from a new program instituted by the state Department of Community and Economic Development. Acting DCED Secretary Rick Siger announce...

Francis Wilford McKenna, 82, of Avon Lake, peacefully passed away after a brief illness on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. He was born Oct. 23, 1940, to parents Francis and Mary (neé Kistler) McKenna in Charle...

Bonnie Joanne Pope, 67, of Port Vue, passed away Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, at home. She was born June 6, 1955, in McKeesport and was the daughter of the late Gordon Eynon and Bernice Lucille “Lu” (Edwa...

Elizabeth M. Frankovich Rosensteel, 75, of Monongahela, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Jefferson Hospital. Born in Washington, Pa., on July 8, 1946, she was the daughter of the late Anthony...

James Teska, 80, of Belle Vernon, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. He was born on Dec. 28, 1942. He had been employed as a machinist at Corning prior to h...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com McKeesport head coach Troy Blackwell knew his squad would have to be tenacious on the defensive end of the floor to pull out an upset victory in its postseason opener ...

By Adam Brewer MVI Sports Both Yough and Beaver Falls’ girls basketball teams knew points would be at a premium in their WPIAL Class 3A preliminary-round contest Thursday night. The No. 16 Cougars str...

By Jeff oliver MVI Sports Most coaches don’t need any extra motivation for their players going into the postseason. However, Dan Bosnic didn’t mind the extra jolt of desire his team received from the ...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com After two seasons, Matt Rowland has stepped down as head boys basketball coach at Ringgold.   His resignation was accepted during Wednesday night’s school board meet...

Trust Arts Education by Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presented an assembly Thursday for students at Monessen Elementary Center. The Collaboration Festival, a celebration of the African Diaspora, is a ble...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A group of local and state officials met Thursday at Elizabeth Forward High School to provide an update on where things stand in the aftermath of Sunday’s fire. Cranes...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com At 6 a.m. Sunday, high school sophomore Makayla Puckey woke up and went to school. She didn’t grab a backpack, though. The 16-year-old Elizabeth Township junior...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A little more than a half dozen residents attended the first town hall meeting held at Monessen City Hall Thursday night. There was no set agenda, though Mayor Ro...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Ringgold school board approved the 2023-24 program of studies Wednesday, abating previous worries about vast cuts to honors courses. Last month, parents rai...