Helping Hands received well over 100 letters this year and selected those published here. The subject of each letter will receive a modest grant this holiday season, thanks to the State Journal ...

Kerrie Urosevich, executive director of Early Childhood Action Strategy, was not surprised by the poor overall results of ...

Missing a day here or there may not seem like a problem. But school absences add up quickly. Missing two days a month—excused ...

Dec. 9 op-ed, Perry: We need an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, not just renewables \| Opinion. Gov. Rick Perry’s opinion ...

After five proposals were released in Falmouth in September, Save Our Schools was born to protest what parents call ...

Eastern Iowa schools are seeing less chronic absenteeism five months after the implementation of a new state law that aims to ...

The title is full of illustrations, codes, and maps that'll have them flexing their sleuth skills.  out a TikTok of Murdle in ...

Part 5 of a six-part series. Click here for Chapter 1. APRIL 1992 Two years later, the case of a little girl murdered a week before Marcus Yates, one that had equally enraged a crime-weary city, was ...

State Rep. Toni Rose and Stacie Sanchez from No Kid Hungry write about food insecurity in Dallas County and the importance of ...

As insurers pass on the costs of rising climate risk, here are strategies to find insurance coverage that protects your home ...

After years of culture war battles in school and public libraries, the campaign by conservative-leaning “parent rights” groups has succeeded in casting a nationwide chill over the ...

A large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over parts of the East Coast in recent weeks, sparking ...