When it comes to teenagers confessing depression, anxiety and stress to a school counselor, most students do not bother because they feel it is not important. Some students might prefer to talk to a friend instead of a trained adult. Counselors try to spend around ten years at college for their jo...

  Punxsutawney Phil will arise from his burrow Feb. 2 to mark the 132nd annual Groundhog Day. When German settlers arrived in America in the 1700s, they brought a tradition known as Candlemas Day, the original version of Groundhog Day, where superstition held that if the weather was fair, the second half of winter would be cold and stormy. The modern day celebration of the holiday began back in 1886, replacing a badger with a groundhog because it wakes from its mid-winter hibernation at around ...

Jason Befort, a former Augusta science teacher and Oriole basketball coach, was murdered Dec. 14, 2000. Befort was at his house with three other men and his girlfriend Heather Muller. On this night, the group of friends was heading to bed when they heard loud yelling. Two brothers by the names of Reginald Carr and Jonathan Carr had broken into their house. That night, one of the brothers sat all the friends in the living room and watched them while the other brother robbed the house. That brother found a ring inside a...

Calling traveling, fouls, double dribbles, net violation and side outs have been a constant part of Social Studies teacher Jeff Regier's life. Regier began refereeing (KSHAA) volleyball and basketball games 40 years ago. He chose to start reffing because he really liked sports, and felt it was...