By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Serra Catholic’s girls trailed by 10 in the first half and by nine in the second half. But head coach Matt Bacco knew if his team could just take the lead, momentu...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Cameron Epps remembers exactly where he was when his older brother, Bryce Epps, hit the game-winning shot to send South Allegheny to the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals du...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports Sometimes a team just has your number. That was the statement that Monessen girls basketball coach Janine Vertacnik kept on saying to herself after the Greyhounds dropped the...

Monessen basketball players Lorenzo Gardner and Dante DeFelices shake hands with students during a pep rally Thursday morning at Monessen Elementary Center for the Greyhounds boys and girls basketball...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com There hasn’t been a date set, but Monessen City Council members have their minds set on demolishing 500 Donner Ave. as soon as it’s safe and legal.   To read the ...

Rosemarie Gail Bird, 67, of Belle Vernon, passed away peacefully on Feb. 23, 2022, in her home with her family by her side. Born in Charleroi on Sept. 9, 1954, Rose is the daughter of the late Frank D...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com After 200-plus years, a seventh-generation Belle Vernon farm is selling milk directly to consumers again.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy ...

Fred Shawl, 84, of McKeesport, died Feb. 23, 2022, at Hempfield Manor. Born Dec. 23, 1937, in Mc-Keesport, he was the son of the late James Glenn Shawl and Ethel Dingledine Shawl and husband of the la...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler had harsh words Thursday for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade in Ukraine. To read the rest of the story, please see a ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fr. Roman Yatskiv of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Monessen struggled to find words Thursday as he watched video footage of Russia’s attack on his homela...

Floyd A. Stangroom, 84, of Brownsville, died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. Born in Webster on Dec. 13, 1937, he was the son of the late Harry J. and Leona P. Hall Stangroom. Floyd was a heavy equipment di...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Cody Russell, 5, of Washington Township, Tanner Sypolt, 9, of Fallowfield Township, Max Russell, 9, of Washington Township, Nathan Dudzinski, 9, of Rostraver To...

Staff and wire reports Pennsylvania’s highest court broke a partisan deadlock Wednesday over a new map of congressional districts by selecting boundaries that broadly adhere to the outlines of current...

By CHRISTINE HAINES For the MVI The preliminary hearing for Rostraver Township Commissioner John Lorenzo, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, has been continued with no new date set at this time. ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Tensions flared once again at this month’s McKeesport Area School Board meeting as the board continued debating the validity of the process used to approve the superin...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A portion of Ravine Street closed since last week reopened Wednesday. The brick road runs under the Versailles Avenue Bridge, and a small portion of it between Point S...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com For the first time in nearly two weeks, the Belle Vernon Area boys basketball team stepped on the floor for a meaningful game Wednesday night. The Leopards last play...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports Every basketball team aspires to play its best ball down the stretch before the playoffs. And for the Cal U women’s basketball team, they have looked like an unstoppable forc...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports For the second time in his long coaching career, Charles “Yogi” Jones will be coaching in Europe. Jones was named the head coach of the Hamburg (Germany) Sea Devils of the Eu...

Joseph A. Scagline Jr., 90, of Mount Pleasant, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Excela Health Frick Hospital, Mount Pleasant. He was born Nov. 21, 1931, in Monongahela, son of Joseph and Ruth Griffith ...