News, World
Nov 23, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has refused to include a novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man in the country's high school c...
Nation, News
Jan 03, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As the days get shorter, first grade teacher Esmeralda Jiménez watches the dimming afternoon sky outside her classroom window the...
Nation, News
Dec 19, 2015
VERONA, Va. (AP) — With the nation already on edge after the attacks in California, a teacher's lesson on Islam in Virginia's Bible Belt sparked an an...
Nation, News
Dec 09, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The way the nation's public schools are evaluated — teachers, students and the schools themselves — is headed for a major makeover, ...
Nation, News
Nov 22, 2015
HOUSTON (AP) — The oil industry is mired in its latest bust, with thousands of jobs evaporating like flares flaming out over natural gas wells. But in...
News, World
Oct 27, 2015
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Bracing for a tsunami like the one that devastated Japanese communities during a 2011 mega-earthquake, coastal communities from ...
Nation, News
Oct 23, 2015
SEATTLE (AP) — Free rent and groceries were selling points, but college freshman Aishwarya Mandyam was more excited about the chance to connect with l...
Nation, News
Sep 17, 2015
GLOUCESTER, Va. (AP) — Amid the cornfields and marinas dotting this conservative tidewater Virginia enclave between the York River and Mobjack Bay, pe...
Nation, News
Sep 10, 2015
SEATTLE (AP) — Teacher Janine Magidman has lived and worked in Seattle for years, but she worries her newer colleagues will be priced out because thei...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Sep 08, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson's next stop on his literacy crusade is Baltimore. The best-selling author, who has donated millions of dollars to book...
Nation, News
Aug 31, 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Results for some of the states that participated in Common Core-aligned testing for the first time this spring are out, with overal...
Nation, News
Aug 29, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush returned Friday to New Orleans — the scene of one of his presidency's lowest points — to tout the r...
Nation, News
Aug 12, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan to make college more affordable and ease the burden of student debt could easily end up costing more t...
Nation, News
Jul 08, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is trying again to pass a GOP-led rewrite of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law, with conservatives aiming to...
Nation, News
Jun 23, 2015
The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they ...
Nation, News
Jun 22, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While the Common Core education standards provoked political backlash and testing boycotts around the country this year, the stat...
Football, Local News, Local Sports
Family tradition continues at 2025 Big 30 Classic
August 1, 2025
Throughout the years, Evan Whitmore could be found at several Big 30 All-Star Charities Classics in t-shirts of various colors, supporting family memb...
Round the Square
August 1, 2025
KANE: The Pittsburgh Magazine ran a weekly travel segment July 29 about a "small town on the border of Allegheny National Forest is ideal for anyone l...
Lifestyles
August 1, 2025
Dear Heloise: I love your column and all the great hints that I read daily. I accidentally washed and dried a small tube of lip balm in a load of my c...
Football, Local Sports
July 31, 2025
The Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic banquet was held Thursday night at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, celebrating this year’s group of ta...
Local News
July 31, 2025
SAYRE — The Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers, through its Northeastern Potter Economic Development Association (NEPEDA) Fund, seeks proposals f...
