I don’t want to start off on the wrong foot. I was an English teacher for 25 years in secondary schools. Teaching is an art, not a science. There’s no exact method that will produce certain results. Often, the going is precarious. There are so many variables. There is always…
Criticism of Penn State player goes way over the line. Editor: I was disgusted to read the comments by Penn State alumnus David Petersen regarding football player Jonathan Sutherland’s dreadlocks. I wonder what this individual would have thought of America’s Founding Fathers who had long hair. Petersen should be ashamed….
GABORONE, Botswana — Botswana’s ruling party faces the tightest election of its history on Wednesday after former President Ian Khama, annoyed with his hand-picked successor, announced his support for the opposition, shaking up one of Africa’s most stable countries. The influential Khama, son of founding President Seretse Khama, withdrew his…
PARKLAND, Fla. — Florida’s Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday morning in a fight over how much the Broward County School Board owes victims in the Parkland shooting. The state’s Sovereign Immunity Law limits how much government agencies have to pay in lawsuits. The school board believes their liability is capped…
Each week, for our You Don’t Look Sick, we speak to someone living with an invisible illness about what it’s like living with a condition that can’t be seen from the outside. This time, we’re with Rebecca Chapman, 28, who has Crohn’s disease- a bowel condition where parts of the…
MANASSAS, VA — A 17-year old Manassas boy is facing multiple charges after he and a group of others attacked a student at Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas, police say. While the boy’s name was not released, he is facing charges of assault and battery, trespassing on school grounds,…
A fire drill, evacuation or active shooter drill can easily startle any student. But for students with disabilities, there’s an added layer of fear, and the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities has reported that schools are generally unprepared to help those students. When a fire alarm rings, or the…
BROOKLYN PARK, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – Police in Anne Arundel County have charged a 25-year-old man in the murder of his mother. Officials say Brent Ryan Faulkner was arrested Thursday after they say he called them to the Brooklyn Park home he lived in with his mother around 3…
A 14-year-old student who was packing a soldering iron that resembled a handgun was arrested Thursday at Carver Middle School in Leesburg. Zekell A. Lindsay was taken into custody after the school’s resource officer, who is a Lake County Sheriff’s deputy, was alerted to a student possibly having a gun…
In a previously unpublished work, Pope Francis highlights the role of prayer in the Christian life. The text is contained in a new book entitled La Preghiera. Il respiro della vita nuova, (Prayer: the breath of the new life) published by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), the Vatican publishing house;…
