Midland News

Charter schools are pushing the public education system to a "tipping point" at which real reform and innovation can occur, Dr.

It's not Glee or High School Musical , but a music video featuring students from a Western Pennsylvania charter school is being circulated by the state Department of Health to make the point that prevention is the best cure for the H1N1 flu virus.

Lincoln Park presents - The King and I' Article Photos MIDLAND, Pa.- The Tony-Award winning musical about Anna and the King of Siam comes to the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center with a stunning set, lavish costumes and a large and talented cast of young performers.

EAST LIVERPOOL The National Network of Digital Schools' second annual Monster Book Bash collected over 1700 books and raised more than $400 in donations for the Carnegie libraries of East Liverpool and Midland, Pa.

The following cases were addressed in Chester Court: Virgil Boggess, 58, of Fifth Street in Chester - expired motor vehicle inspection, fined $100 plus $72 in court costs; also charged with no operator's license, fined $100 plus $72 in court costs.

The Midland Police Department continued its crackdown on illegal drug activity in the Borough recently.

A Washington County man died and two other people were injured after a multi-vehicle accident last night on Route 30 in Beaver County, state police said.

A Washington County man died and two other people were injured after a multi-vehicle accident last night on Route 30 in Beaver County, state police said.

A Washington County man died and two other people were injured after a multi-vehicle accident last night on Route 30 in Beaver County, state police said.

Pennsylvania authorities offered a tip and St. Clair Township police officers made an arrest Tuesday, charging Midland resident Charles M. Tatsch with receiving stolen property.

Adam Atkinson, co-director of the Open Thread small press, at the Open Thread Tri-State Chapbook Party at the BrilloBox on Thursday.

Daniel Mancini wanted his young son to learn proper pronunciation and grammar when speaking Italian, the language of his ancestors.

Daveen Rae Kurutz can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5627. Pennsylvania's largest cyber charter school met all of its performance standards on this year's federally mandated state assessments, possibly paving a smoother road for renewal of its charter.

Michael Hasch can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7820. Kara Freeman has long known something the rest of the world learned Wednesday: Dwight Moore is a hero.

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How can we reform U.S. K-12 education so that U.S. students will be competitive with Finnish teenagers? Technology -- particularly online education, say Terry M. Moe and John E. Chubb, authors of "Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education." Technology holds two potentially dramatic benefits, say the authors: ...

A part-time Beaver County police officer is charged with assault stemming from a fight outside a Chester, W.Va., bar during a bachelor party.

Officers with the Hancock County Sheriff's Department arrested a Midland Borough police officer and charged him with malicious assault following a June 7 incident at Kamikaze's Nightclub outside Chester.

An off duty police officer from Pennsylvania is being charged for malicious assault outside of a nightclub near Chester.