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STORY: School’s Bible Giveaway Prompts Threat of Lawsuit “Some think we should fight it all the way, but it would take a lot of precious resources away from where we need them very badly right ...
George Richard Proffitt, 20, of Lancaster, passed away peacefully last week at home. He was the beloved son of Trex and Beth Proffitt. While he struggled with depression and anxiety ...
Richard Proffitt, who just started his first school year as Chanute superintendent, said the picture was taken down after the district’s lawyer advised that the school could not legally display it.
Chanute superintendent Richard Proffitt shouldn’t have caved and should have consulted Christian legal organizations before making any final decision on removing the portrait.
PITTSBURG — According to Pittsburg USD 250 Superintendent of Schools Richard Proffitt, two landmark court decisions changed the face of education — Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the ...
Proffitt said he has been fending off complaints from across the country since the portrait’s removal from Royster, which has about 400 students. “I’m sick of this,” said Jack Lynch, 53 ...
BRISTOW, Va. (AP) — A school bus driver in northern Virginia has died after being struck and killed by another bus at a school system's transportation center. Prince William County Police say 62 ...
The youth died at school on Oct. 17, 1956, according to Chanute school superintendent Richard Proffitt and Dwight Youngberg, the husband of one of Duane Eastburn’s three surviving sisters.
PITTSBURG, Kan. — The Pittsburg School District and Pittsburg State University will start classes later this month with COVID-19 safety measures in place as the coronavirus’s delta variant ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WSET) - The Virginia Flaggers raised a 30' by 50' Confederate battle flag on Interstate 64 just outside Charlottesville Saturday.The flaggers wrote on their Facebook page ...