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Megan Gildow Anthony

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Megan Gildow Anthony joined the Springfield News-Sun as the education reporter in June 2008. She is a graduate of Ohio University.

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Third graders at Park Layne Elementary in Bethel Twp., including Joseph Blackburn, center, practice reading from a book about Martin Luther King, Jr. during class Tuesday. Staff photo by Bill Lackey

New reading requirements could cost schools millions

It could potentially cost Miami Valley school districts millions of dollars annually to meet the requirements of the new state Third Grade Reading Guarantee. School districts and charter schools throughout Ohio began taking steps this school year to prepare for the standard that generally mandates that students who do not ...

Crowd pelts police cruisers, team bus with rocks after fight at football game leads to arrests

Three juveniles were arrested for disorderly conduct Friday night after a fight led to 35 law enforcement officers responding to Springfield High School’s football game, according to Springfield police.The incident began when three teenage girls got into a fight at the Wildcats’ game against Middletown High School at Evans Stadium, ...

Matt McQuinn’s stepfather, David Jackson, speaks in his Springfield home on Saturday, July 21. Matt McQuinn was one of 12 people killed by lone gunman James Eagen Holmes at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday. McQuinn died shielding his girlfriend Samantha Yowler from the gunfire. Staff photo by Barbara J. Perenic

Local victim in theater shooting died a hero, loved ones say

Though shocked and saddened by his death, friends and family of Matt McQuinn were not surprised to learn that he died protecting his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater early Friday morning. “I know he’s a hero,” McQuinn’s stepfather, David Jackson, said at his ...

Schools prep for third-grade reading guarantee

More than one in five third-graders in a dozen Miami Valley school districts were not proficient in reading last year, according to 2010-11 report card data.In Dayton and Jefferson Twp., about 45 percent failed to meet that state standard, while in Springfield it was about 37 percent and Middletown, 30 ...

Samantha Yowler and Matt McQuinn

Local man shot, killed in theater shooting

In the chaos of one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history, one local woman’s boyfriend was killed at a Colorado movie theater. The boyfriend shielded her. The woman suffered a bullet wound to the leg while her brother escaped physically unharmed. Siblings Samantha and Nick Yowler — both ...

Teacher arrested on sexual battery charges

SPRINGFIELD — A Northeastern High School teacher faces “substantial incarceration time” for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a female student, Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly said. Anthony Parker, 36, of Huber Heights, was met by deputies in the school parking lot Monday, Jan. 11, and later was arrested on ...

 

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