Donora News

Monongahela Valley Hospital and its union staved off a potential work stoppage after the membership voted to accept a new contract Tuesday.

The township commissioners Wednesday reported that homes are being connected to the new stormwater and wastewater system.

A Monongahela man will spend the next 50 years in prison for raping two young girls over a seven-year period.

Mark Hofmann can be reached at mhofmann@tribweb.com or 724-626-3539. This year's Fayette County Fair will return with no increase in ticket prices along with traditional and new entertainment.

" While few people will see Bryce and Sara Rinkhoff when they attend three Fourth of July celebrations in Donora on Saturday,they'll be the ones making all the noise.

To the outside world, the Mid-Mon Valley is all about unemployment, poverty, vacant storefronts and, lately, shootouts involving young men from Donora and Monessen.

Chris Buckley can be reached via e-mail or at 724-684-2642. A new project to improve or extend rail service nearly a mile into the Amcel 2 Center in Rostraver Township could begin soon.

The Ringgold School Board adopted a 2009-10 budget that includes a 4-mill tax increase.

Reports that the closing of three Catholic churches in the Mon Valley are imminent are apparently inaccurate.

The new principal at Christ the Divine Teacher Catholic Academy in Aspinwall represents the return of a tradition at the school: having a religious sister at the helm.

State police said a woman was lucky to escape serious injury this morning after her vehicle was driven into a guide rail by a tractor-trailer in Rostraver Township.

BiLLY T'S is a nuisance no longer. The Monessen bar with a long, troubled history is out of business until at least next May -- shut down for a year after owner Billy Tansmore withdrew his challenge to an order from Westmoreland County Judge Daniel Ackerman.

The fire department has been one of young Michael Bedner's passions. As he turned 18, the Carroll Township resident is now considered an active member of the Carroll Township Volunteer Fire Department.

The last of three men arrested in February 2008 as part of a large-scale drug investigation in the Mon Valley pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to drug and money laundering charges.

The Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of Brandi Lee Antal, 23, whose last known address is 319 Ohio St., Belle Vernon.

This article has been read 111 times. Thirteen police departments in Washington County are receiving a share of $1.4 million in federal money to purchase equipment.

The Rev. Pierre Falkenhan is back in the Mid-Mon Valley and he's happy to be here.

No, not the kind that oink gently in a mud bath after enjoying a tasty meal. These hogs wear leather and ride two-wheeled chrome contraptions that produce much louder, deeper oinks.

A Washington County man, who escaped last week from a constable in North Belle Vernon and later wrecked a stolen truck, was released Thursday from a West Virginia hospital and jailed in Westmoreland County.

The long arm of the law swept down on probationers and parolees in the Mon Valley on Friday, resulting in numerous arrests and the confiscation of large amounts of drugs and cash.