Congratulations to senior Andrea Mirviss for winning the 2011 National Scholastic Writing Awards National Gold Medal in short story. The gold medal is awarded to the “most outstanding works in the nation”...

Nick Stuban, a sophomore at W.T. Woodson, a Fairfax County high school, committed suicide Jan. 20 after having been suspended for possession of a legal drug on school grounds. A football player who had...

Looking at the ceiling recently, students may have noticed new little white boxes with green lights on the ceilings. They’re not smoke alarms, but rather one of 50 Cisco Wi-Fi Hotspots that were recently...

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley unveiled his new plan for the 2012 fiscal operating budget Jan. 21, proposing cuts of $1.9 million from the State Department of Education funding. If approved, this...

With so many different choices of what to eat and how to eat it, it is often difficult for people to make the right decisions when trying to balance their diets. However, Americans now have a new place...

American Sign Language (ASL) has been added as one of the world language courses offered for the 2011-2012 school year. This non-verbal language, which is the fourth most commonly used in the world, has...

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Superintendent Jerry Weast is proposing a $2.2 billion budget, which asks for increased funding from the county council. Weast’s proposed 2012 budget for MCPS...

Three Montgomery County residents filed a lawsuit Jan. 20 against Montgomery College’s board of trustees for charging in-county tuition rates to all recent graduates of MCPS high schools, including those...