Students at Claymont Junior High School will enter the digital age of reading next week as seventh- and eighth-graders there start using Kindles in their language arts classes.

St. Paul and Minneapolis each have two weeks to prove they've spent half of their 2-year-old federal grants on acquiring, rehabbing or demolishing hundreds of vacant eyesore properties.

ANNA HARVEY (Editor’s note: Anna Harvey, recently hired by the Carteret County News-Times, grew up in Lewistown, Pa., roughly 40 miles from State College. Her older sister graduated from Penn State in 2009, and her father is an employee of the university. Anna graduated from Penn State on Dec. 17 with a degree in print journalism and Spanish. During her time as a student, she studied abroad in ...