COSTA MESA – Forty-two years. That’s how long it took to get a gym at Tewinkle Middle School. A promise made when the Newport-Mesa Unified School District was formed in 1966 was finally ...

Nineteen years ago, it seemed like a good idea to inspire the youth of Great Oak Middle School in Oxford, Conn., with a larger-than-life picture of Joe Paterno painted on the gym wall, along the ...