Speers News

Rachel has already endured more emotional strain in her 11 years than many girls do through most of their lives.

Jennifer Tharp and Lia Miceli will be honored as valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, when Charleroi Area High School conducts its 2009 commencement ceremonies Monday.

There has never been a shortage of political bigwigs making personal appearances in the Mid-Mon Valley.

Neighborhood grocery stores were plentiful in the Mid-Mon Valley for many, many years.

A U.S. destroyer kept watch Thursday over the waters where Somali pirates held the American captain of a hijacked cargo ship that was later retaken by the crew in an hours-long, high seas drama.

Three defendants have been added to a lawsuit filed in 2008 over an alleged conspiracy to defeat Roger Snyder's re-election bid for West Donegal Township supervisor in 2007.

It makes little sense to repair the Charleroi-Monessen Bridge for $10 million when the bridge deck can be replaced for four times that amount.

Almost a month after the shutdown of the Charleroi-Monessen Bridge, motorists are enduring a nearly seven-mile detour while PennDOT decides whether to repair or replace it.

Two days after the deadline for candidates to file petitions for inclusion on the primary election ballot and two months before voters head to the polls, Mayor Frank Paterra and council traded verbal jabs ...

Chris Buckley can be reached via e-mail or at 724-684-2642. For decades, a Block Parent sign in a window signaled that home was a safe haven for children who felt threatened.

When it comes to the Charleroi- Monessen Bridge, state Sen. J. Barry Stout said he doesn't want to "throw good money after bad." That's good thinking by the veteran legislator, who is revered across ...

When the additional money for roads from the economic stimulus package is doled out by the federal government, the state Department of Transportation has projects ready to go.

MIDA and its Board of Directors have one single common goal -- to help the people who live in the Mon Valley.

The Charleroi Area School Board Tuesday approved an extension of tax-free zone status for the Alta Vista business park.

The first president of the United States, born 277 years ago today, has been dead for 209 years.

Jennifer Stephan - at 26 - is still a very young lady. Yet she has come a long way since her days of growing up as a youth in Speers.

PennDOT closed down the deteriorating Charleroi-Monessen Bridge Thursday morning, forcing thousands of motorists to find alternate routes each day.

Rushing to meet a deadline, council Thursday night approved an application seeking a $500,000 grant to fund the final stage of its storm water separation project.

A storm that featured rain and unusually high winds whipped through the Mid-Mon Valley overnight and into this morning, leaving downed trees and power lines in its wake.

Union bus drivers who transport thousands of Mon Valley commuters to Pittsburgh each day have authorized a strike over wages as they attempt to reach their first labor contract.