High school musical season is gearing up and the hard work and dedication of drama students across Western Pennsylvania is shining bright. KDKA and Pittsburgh Today Live has put together a guide of shows in our area. Whether you like classics like "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Newsies," or a newer...
The scare was the latest in a wave of such incidents since the May 24 mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers. A similar panic occurred at Heights High School in Houston on Sept. 13 after the school received a threat. Threats last ...
Some victims and families of people killed or injured filed suit against the school and the police; most of these suits were later dismissed in court. The list of school shootings in the United States grows longer every year, and includes the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, the Sandy Hook E...
The driver of the Andrews High School bus, 69-year-old Marc Elbert Boswell of Andrews was killed in the accident, along with one of the bus passengers, 53-year-old Darin Kimbrogh Johns of Andrews. Johns was the Andrews High School Mustang band director....
We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, y...
The anti-government movement was fostered by the Branch Davidian shootout near Waco, Texas in 1993. They thought President Bill Clinton was preparing to take their weapons. In 1996 authorities counted 858 anti-government groups. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma federal building bomber who killed 168...
We all had weeks in middle school or high school when we primarily relied on Cliff’s Notes to prep us for our reading quizzes, but every once in a while you would actually have time to read the assigned books and maybe you found yourself completely engrossed. For instance, you...
LOCATION: Texas; Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois PERIOD: 1950s-1980s DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Tucker “Tick” Burden (1937-2019); Henrietta Tate (1916-2008); Alma Tate (1940-1978).TICK BURDEN’S DREAM (F. D. Leone, Jr.)My name is Tick Burden, got a hobo soul; Cutting’ and running has ...
The city ofLeawoodis part of the Kansas City, Missouri, metro area, about 10 miles southwest of the city. It originated with Oscar G. Lee, a retired Oklahoma police officer, in 1920, and then began to flourish in the 1940s with a housing development. The goal was the friendliness of ...
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, rumors about a Black man assaulting a white woman gave a white mob the excuse to head to a prosperous neighborhood called "Black Wall Street," where they looted and killed. On the 100th anniversary, a commission has been created to commemorate the Massacre. Wise Potato ...