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High School Football Coach Dies After Losing Consciousness in the Middle of Game: ‘Heartbroken, Crushed and in Shock’
“We love you Coach Dawson,” said Cornell School District Superintendent Aaron Thomas in a statement to his community in Pennsylvania
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Carnegie Mellon Miami now has a dean. What the campus will offer
Carnegie Mellon Miami now has a dean. University officials said that Jignesh Patel, a computer scientist at CMU, will serve as founding dean and vice president at Florida's future CMU Miami in an Oct. 20 release . The campus is expected to begin enrolling students in 2028, "pending the necessary regulatory approvals" according to the release. Patel will lead "efforts to recruit top faculty and students," build "partnerships across private and public sectors" and "establish" the Miami campus as a "distinctive hub." "CMU Miami is an opportunity to start with the challenges facing society and figure out how to solve them in the most effective way," Patel said. "That has been a theme throughout my teaching and research career: Turning ideas into results that make a difference." Who is Jignesh Patel? What to know about dean of Carnegie Mellon Miami Patel is a computer scientist and faculty member at Carnegie Mellon's Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science, where he has served as interim head of the computer science department since 2025, according to the release. He joined CMU in 2023 after previous positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan. Carnegie Mellon to construct Miami campus
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John Marshall launches construction pre-apprenticeship program
GLEN DALE, W.Va. (WTRF) — John Marshall High School is adding a pre-apprenticeship program to its two-year carpentry Career and Technical Education program. The school says it is the first program of its kind offered at a West Virginia high school. Beginning this semester, carpentry students will take part in a pre-apprenticeship program through the […]
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High school football roundup for Oct. 23, 2026: Late TD, conversion lift West Allegheny past Trinity
Mason Bryan hit Nico Police with a 25-yard touchdown pass with 49 seconds to play, and the pair connected again after coach Bob Palko decided to go for the 2-point conversion, leading West Allegheny to a 25-24 victory over Trinity in the Class 5A Allegheny Six Conference on Friday night.
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Bridgeport Schools welcome Rotary Club District Governor
BRIDGEPORT, OH (WTRF) – The newly-opened multipurpose Bridge building at Bridgeport Exempted hosted the area Rotarians and District Governor Terry Rataiczak and brought high school volunteers together with dedicated community members during the Oct. 22 gathering. They were joined by students from Bridgeport High School’s Interact Club, the volunteer-focused...
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Weirton Elementary students honored for exemplary state test scores
HANCOCK COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) – Cheers and applause filled the gymnasium at Weirton Elementary School as students were recognized for their outstanding performance during last year’s state testing. Now in fourth grade, the students were honored for earning mastery and distinguished scores on their third-grade English language arts and math tests. As Principal Monica Martich explains, third grade is […]
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High schoolers hold fundraisers to plug oil and gas wells. Some say the industry should clean up its own mess.
When Lucy Hurowitz was finishing her first year of high school, she was having anxiety about climate change and the state of the environment. “You just feel so helpless in the face of these really big problems,” she said. Then Hurowitz read an article about kids in North Carolina...
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Wheeling Park High School first & only Teen Mental Health First Aid school in West Virginia
WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) — Wheeling Park High School has become the first and only high school in West Virginia selected to receive funding for the Teen Mental Health First Aid program. The program teaches students how to recognize when a friend may be facing a mental health or substance use challenge, offer support and involve […]