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Kentucky Country Day School faces backlash after a valedictorian's speech sparked a cultural shift and parental outrage.

Rhoda Feldman was a woman of style and substance. After breaking ground as one of the Free Press’s first female news ...

In what may be a first, a diverse, 60-member commission was created with a lofty goal: bolster confidence in the state’s ...

The most love I’ve felt has never come from a guy or even my family: it’s always been from my girls. The love you feel from ...

Let me preface this by saying that I am condemning neither Superintendent Dennis Peterson nor the Minnetonka School District. I believe Dr. Peterson always has the district’s best interest ...

We attended the Hutchinson High School graduation ceremony on Sunday and would like to extend our congratulations to each and every graduate. This is a time of great change for each of you. You ...

This resulted in an awkward space where the character should have appeared in the print version of this column. We apologize to our readers and neighbors, the SMSC, for this error, one which ...

But, I can remember the message, the charm and the encouragement (and, of course, the searing heat) as if I were sitting in that field yesterday, celebrating my brother’s graduation ... you hope for ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

Kinley Nance showed up at East Carolina University in the fall not knowing what to expect. The freshman from Chadbourn was ...