The Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, shown on Feb. 13, was the scene of the famous Scopes Trial in 1925. The courthouse has a museum dedicated to the trial in its basement and also has statues of ...

John Randolph Neal Jr. represented defendant John Scopes, the Rhea County instructor charged ... when a law was passed saying law schools had to be full-time colleges. The former state senator ...

The world of student testing is growing testy, in large part owing to Florida. After Florida lawmakers authorized the widespread use of the Classic Learning Test as a college entrance exam alternative ...

Now that the snowy season and the need for school makeup days appears to be in the rear-view mirror, the Washington County, Virginia School Board has set May 23 as ...

Junior and senior nursing students at Rogers State University took part in a mock disaster drill in Verdigris for hands-on ...

President searches: University of South Florida president Rhea Law agreed to stay on the ... Sex education: Broward County schools have no “Plan B” for comprehensive sex education if the ...

In January, the district put forth a plan to end a 60-year-old court order, Stout vs. Jefferson County, by outlining a number ...

The superintendent of the Rhea County school system and two high school students testified that Scopes had taught the banned topic as a substitute teacher using a textbook, Hunter’s Civic ...

Dispatch had received a call just after 12:30 p.m. Monday about a threat of backpacks being placed around Floyd Central High ...