Charleroi News

No one has to be reminded of the February 2010 blizzard that paralyzed the district with upwards of three feet of snow.

Just as they began returning to some state of normalcy in the wake of a record snowfall, firemen in Monessen were confronted with another major emergency on Friday, Feb.

MindFreedom is an activist group which is united for a peaceful revolution in the mental health industry.

Jeff Pikulsky is a Valley Independent staff writer and can be reached at 724-684-2635 or via e-mail. CHARLEROI - Council held a hearing Thursday regarding whether or not the landlord of a Fifth Street apartment where police have repeatedly been called will get to keep his license to rent in the borough.

FALLOWFIELD?TOWNSHIP - A woman was injured Wednesday afternoon when her vehicle rolled over on Route 88 at the bottom of Craven Hill.

When John LaCarte drives along Interstate 70, he realizes the risk his family partnership took nearly a decade ago on an undeveloped light industrial site in Fallowfield Township was worth it.

Jeff Pikulsky is a Valley Independent staff writer and can be reached at 724-684-2635 or via e-mail. Sitting in a backroom at the carpet and flooring business he has run on Main Street in Monongahela since 1975, Amoroso reflected on his early days as an entrepreneur.

These days, the bigger of the state's 500 public school districts blow through that much money in less than a week.

Charleroi police Superintendent Mike Matyas said Edith Brown, 87, of 520 Liberty St., Apt.

Jeff Pikulsky is a Valley Independent staff writer and can be reached at 724-684-2635 or via e-mail. A former criminal homicide suspect who became a key witness in a cold-case murder trial has been set free.

Jeff Pikulsky is a Valley Independent staff writer and can be reached at 724-684-2635 or via e-mail. FALLOWFIELD TOWNSHIP - When newly elected Supervisor Wilbur Caldwell asked at a public meeting Wednesday why the police department was disbanded at the end of 2010, the board chairman said he should not be told as a matter of confidentiality.

Two men have been convicted in the murder almost a decade ago of a western Pennsylvania man who was an informant responsible for the arrest of one of the defendants on drug charges.

A winter storm warning remains in effect through 1 p.m. today-and first responders warn motorists to be vigilant on icy roadways.

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Chris Buckley is a Valley Independent staff writer and can be reached at 724-684-2642 or via e-mail. What do these hit songs have in common: "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey; "She Will be Loved" by Maroon 5; "Let it Be" by The Beatles, and "With or Without You" by U2? Jane Staranko, the seventh/eighth grade music teacher and middle school choir ... (more)