By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Third, fourth and fifth graders at Charleroi Elementary Center know how to cut a rug. The school hosted its first Valentine’s Day Date Night dance Friday. Sons ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Declan Blair is a word whiz.   An eighth-grader at the Charleroi Area Middle School, he recently became the third student in the school’s history to win the spelling...

Patricia M. Christner, 73, of North Belle Vernon, died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Born in Mt. Pleasant on July 4, 1949, she was the daughter of the late Albert Raymond and Ethel Pearl Grubb Lemley. Patri...

Robert C. “Bob” Svedberg, 84, passed away at Provision Living in East Lansing, Mich., on Feb. 7, 2023. Born in McKeesport, Pa., on Christmas Day in 1938, he was a very special gift to his parents, Rob...

Private services were held for Cora Mae Marks, 7 weeks, who was called to heaven on Feb. 5, 2023. She is the daughter of Ty and Melissa Marks of Speers; and sister to her big brother, Connor. Also sur...

With temperatures at nearly 70 degrees Thursday afternoon, KayAleah Long, 10, of Monessen, joined her stepmother, Tina Hess, for a walk in Monessen City Park and paused for a moment to demonstrate her...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Surrounded by a large group of law enforcement — including multiple McKeesport police officers — the man accused of shooting two city officers was taken into custody T...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com A water main on Fourth Street in Monongahela broke again Thursday, just three weeks after the same line burst and flooded multiple local businesses. Witnesses a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen council approved a resolution last night that will mandate and organize the city’s repayment of funds that were improperly transferred out of the line us...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council hired a bookkeeper Thursday, continuing to fill borough building positions after months of being short staffed. Council members approved Kelli Ke...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Five seasons ago, the Monessen girls basketball program was coming off a 3-18 season when current coach Janine Vertacnik took the helm. Now, for the first time in 11 y...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports A lot was on the line for the Charleroi girls’ basketball team Thursday night in their Section 4-3A finale. And the Cougars were looking to take everything on the table, but ...

By BILL BECKNER JR. Trib Total Media Franklin Regional did not qualify for the WPIAL girls basketball playoffs but you would have thought the team won a championship after the final buzzer sounded Thu...

Donna Marek Dick, 74, of North Charleroi, passed away peacefully on Feb. 9, 2023, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. Born on March 1, 1948, Donna was the daughter of the late Sue Marek. Donna grad...

Kathy Louise Stanley, 62, of McKeesport, passed away Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. She was born Jan. 26, 1961, in Wilkinsburg, daughter of the late Albert Obies Sr. and the late Betty May Hockenbery-Bergman. ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Hundreds of people who were gathered at Renziehausen Park for a candlelight vigil erupted with cheers and applause Wednesday night when a man called out that police Of...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com A furious second-half rally fell short for the California women’s basketball team Wednesday night. The Vulcans cut a 16-point third-quarter deficit to one on two sep...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that dockets related to the case against a man accused in connection with a November homicide in Rostraver Township m...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com After months of hearings and hours of testimony, the Rostraver Township Zoning Hearing board unanimously voted to deny a special request from Olympus Energy requesting...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora’s civil service commission held a second hearing Wednesday to determine if former police superintendent Jim Brice should be reinstated. Council fired Bri...