By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A woman will spend Christmas with her family this year thanks in part to the quick thinking and action of two Monongahela police officers. On Oct. 17, Renee Seife...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com You check your email. You check your text messages. You check your Facebook, along with additional social media accounts. But how often do you check your ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A lifelong Donora resident has been displaced from her home two days before Christmas after a fire broke out there Monday afternoon. Ida Jean Godfrey said she has li...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Putting together a puzzle is not always an easy task. It can be stressful and time consuming, but for George and Marge Jonas, it is one of their favorite past times....

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports History was made Monday night inside the hallowed halls of Neenie Campbell Memorial Gymnasium in McKeesport. In an otherwise nondescript, nonsection girls basketball ...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward junior Kaitlin Fournier will be heading south when she graduates in the spring of 2021. Fournier recently announced on social media that she has ve...

Wanda Marie Deems Monongahela Wanda Marie Deems, 95, of Monongahela, died Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, at the Mon Valley Care Center. She was born on March 27, 1924, in Waynesburg, Greene County, a daught...

William E. Robson Monongahela William E. Robson, 89, of Monongahela, died unexpectedly Monday, Dec. 23, 2019, in his home. He was born June 26, 1930, in Donora, the son of Joseph and Margaret Beaumast...

John T. Nagy Sr. Monongahela John T. Nagy Sr., 66, of Monongahela, died Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. Born May 7, 1953, in Monongahela, he was the son of the late Thomas J. Nagy Jr. and Grace Lauderbaugh Nag...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports One of the most storied football programs in the WPIAL, if not the state, is looking for a new football coach. And quite possibly is faced with being shut down because of a l...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com When looking for a landing spot to continue playing soccer and continue his academic path, Belle Vernon Area star and 2019 Mon Valley Independent -BeeGraphix Fab 1...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Alexis Sage and Danika Evans, members of the Ringgold High School Interact Club, help 4-year-old Jaxson Pearson of Monongahela pick out his gifts.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Businesses are returning to Donora and a new chamber of commerce may not be far behind. Over the last year or so, Tech Met has reinvested in its MIDA Park site an...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com For Perryopolis resident Tonya Joseph, Christmas arrived almost two months early this year. And instead of riding in a red sleigh, Santa Claus arrived in a r...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Elizabeth borough police officers joined forces Friday with departments from across the region to make a difference at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. T...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Melody Gazdick will be the first to admit she’s a little shy.   Even after the school bus driver quietly made sure that the entire student population of C...

Clifford E. “Skeets” Jones, 93, of Monessen, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. He was born in North Charleroi, on March 12, 1926, a son of the late Clifford and Kathryn E. Frye Jones. He was a g...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Dylan Bradshaw, 16, of Monongahela and Bently Selinsky, 17 months, of Bentleyville were with their great-great uncle, Terry Rostcheck of New Eagle, at the Ringg...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com A member of the Mon Valley Sewage Authority board is concerned that documents aren’t being distributed in a timely manner to allow for informed votes at m...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Austin Davis, a 30-year-old Democrat, is seeking re-election as the state representative for Pennsylvania’s 35th Legislative District. Davis lives in McKeesport with h...