Monessen News

Two Western Pennsylvania women were among the victims in Thursday's shooting rampage in Fort Hood, including a 55-year-old lieutenant colonel who was one of 13 people who died in the attack.

Westmoreland County Commissioner Charles W. Anderson will bring a legacy of service to the United States when he participates in the traditional Veterans Day program in Monessen.

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With a state budget in place, Karen Brinker can go about getting Westmoreland County's Head Start program back up to speed.

During the spring of 1943, two rather timid little boys walked up the steps of the building that housed Janosik's Drug Store on Donner Avenue in Monessen.

With demand for food up because of the recession, the Westmoreland County Food Bank is facing the holiday season uncertain whether it will be able to purchase 6,500 turkey vouchers or 7,000. The vouchers are distributed to needy households several weeks before Thanksgiving every year.

Until a couple of weeks ago, the days often were quiet in the Delmont Public Library.

Bernie Fertall went in to The Pasta Shoppe for lunch and came out with a new restaurant.

Serving their country is a tradition in Travis Micjan's family and nowhere is this more prevalent than at the American Legion in Charleroi.

Monessen veterans will host the annual Valley-wide commemoration of Veterans Day on Nov.

Had he not received a call from Uncle Sam, Carlton C. Brown might have become a professional photographer or engraver.

A second person has been charged in connection with an armed robbery at a service station in Finleyville earlier this month.

A former Monessen High School and semi-pro football star was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for selling cocaine and money laundering, despite his cooperation with prosecutors and pleas for leniency from family, friends and former teachers.

There was a time when most communities in the Mid-Mon Valley had their own hometown newspaper.

Every so often, someone drives through the Valley, sees a road sign for Donora and decides to check out the hometown of a baseball legend.

A Monessen motorcyclist is seeking unspecified damages in a lawsuit claiming unsafe street conditions in Monessen caused an April 17 crash that threw him off his bike.

Last Friday we gave you a look at the first installment of HERE THERE BE MONSTERS, an exclusive webseries set at the Tom Savini's Special Make-Up Effects Program at Douglas Education Center .

Clyde Behanna has been gone from the Mid-Mon Valley for many years, but his recollections of living here remain strong.

Don't be surprised to see Douglas Education Center students scrambling around town today to collect receipts and menus from restaurants or taking photos of city landmarks.

One person was hospitalized after mixing chemicals in Monessen Monday morning. The incident happened as the woman, whose name has not been released, was mixing a pool of chemicals at her home along Monessen Boulevard shortly after 6 a .m. Police said the chemicals began irritating her eyes and throat.