By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com  In preparation for the new school year, McKeesport Area School District leaders have been focusing on campus and classroom safety. This week, they took an extra step ...

The Vatican issued a strongly worded statement yesterday denouncing terrible abuse by priests that was detailed in a Pennsylvania grand jury report made public this week. While calling the abuse “crim...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com “Shocking,” “terrible,” “disgusting.” Those are a few of the words Mid-Mon Valley parishioners used Wednesday when reacting to a grand jury report revealing more tha...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Forward Township will host its annual Community Days event Saturday and Sunday at Gallatin-Sunnyside Park. The event, which will take place 1 to 10 p.m. each day, at...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com A pair of local parents spoke up during Wednesday’s school board meeting regarding recent security upgrades in the Elizabeth Forward School District. During a specia...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com While McKeesport’s International Village is a place for family, friends, church parishioners, neighbors and strangers to come together for laughs, good food and dancin...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com All it takes is $2 and a trip to McKeesport’s Renziehausen Park and you’ll be transported to a world of culture, zest and flare. McKeesport’s 59th annual International...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A grand jury report revealing more than 300 “predator priests” was released Tuesday and 24 priests who served in the Mid-Mon Valley are on the list. “Today, the m...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi family is accused of selling drugs to a confidential informant on two separate occasions. Drug law violations were filed against Donald Franks, 49 and Me...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man who has two preliminary hearings scheduled for today is now also slated for an arraignment in a third case. Charles D. Sleith Jr., 51, of Craven S...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com In one of her first initiatives since taking on the role of executive director of the Mon Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, Leanna Spada is hoping residents and b...

By Bob Pajich For the Mon Valley Independent Glassport council will vote on two resolutions at next week’s regular meeting pertaining to its record keeping. First, council will vote on a resolution th...

“Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades.” That paragraph sums up a shocking and sordid grand jur...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Hundreds of children from the Mon Valley didn’t let a little rain chase them away from Monday’s 10th annual Village for Kids in McKeesport — at least not until the thu...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com California University of Pennsylvania knew its contractor intended to use alternative materials in the construction of a parking garage when it hired Manheim Corp...

By Jamie Martines Monessen officials are listed as owning $599.13 in delinquent taxes for a lot on McKee Way. The bad news is that they owe the same amount for 98 other properties in the city — all of...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak Mayor Ina Jean Marton announced Monday that she received confirmation from state officials that at least part of McClintock Road will be open by the middle o...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Three new faces will be joining the Forward Township police force. During a meeting Monday, township supervisors Thomas DeRosa, Dave Magiske and Ron Skrinjorich unan...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Judy Hubans started working at Mon Yough Community Services, a group offering community health care services, in 1981. She has helped numerous clients get jobs ov...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township is taking necessary steps to make amendments to its oil and gas ordinance. Solicitor Matt Racunas said following Monday’s board of commissioners m...