Displayed in a wicker chair on the front porch of Ben Johnson’s boyhood home, atop a hill 15 minutes southeast of downtown, ...

Earlier this week, a group of 10 students from Whitehead Elementary School lined up with Woodland Joint Unified School District Superintendent Elodia Ortega-Lampkin next to a shiny yellow school bus.

She also owns the local newspaper, the Chilkat Valley News. The weekly paper has a circulation of 1,200 during the summer and 1,000 in winter. About 2,500 people live in the Haines Borough.

A public school teacher in Connecticut, who is Catholic, was allegedly suspended and “threatened with termination” after refusing to remove a crucifix beside her desk, according to her legal ...