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With recent, significant changes to veterans' pension benefits, local veterans’ affairs personnel have been meeting with veterans and surviving spouses to steer them through the lengthy and comprehensive process of applying for the needs-based benefit through the state Department of Veterans ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection has settled with two oil and gas producers in a more than $7 million deal that requires them to address abandoned conventional wells across Western Pennsylvania.The consent order and agreement with Alabama-based Diversified Gas & Oil ...

Monessen Mayor Matt Shorraw feels city officials are withholding city-related letters and correspondence from him, so he sent a letter recently asking this mayoral mail be delivered to his home by a city finance specialist.Council members have balked at the request, inviting Shorraw to the ...

When a teenÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ parents want to take them for mental health services, some are finding that providers give the child the option to decline treatment.ThatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ not the intent of a 2004 law, said state Reps. Pam Snyder, Jason Ortitay and Marcia Hahn.Act 147 of 2004 allows 14- to 18-year old ...

MONONGAHELA – City council decided to ease up on a provision in a new lawn waste ordinance that could put repeat offenders behind bars for failing to pay their fines.The proposed ordinance stipulates that residents who dispose of leaves, garden residue, shrubbery or tree trimmings and other ...

Drivers beware: Potholes are everywhere

<strong>Brad Hundt</strong><strong>F</strong>irst comes the cold.Then comes the snow.And then come the potholes.Early March is the time of year when we hope the worst of winter is behind us, but the best of spring is still weeks away, and ...