Authorities in Alaska are investigating whether Candice Berner, a 32-year-old schoolteacher originally from Slippery Rock whose body was found in the woods of a remote Alaskan village, was the state's first recorded victim of a wolf attack. (Today)

In an outspoken, iconoclastic career spanning three decades and two parties, Barbara Hafer has earned plenty of headlines in campaigns, mostly successful, for an array of state and local offices. (Today)

The Penn Hills School District will soon send furlough notices to 64 of its 417 teachers for the upcoming school year. (Today)

Despite the pleas of environmental groups and Lincoln residents, the Allegheny County Board of Health has approved a federally mandated air pollution control plan for the Liberty-Clairton area that fails to reduce pollution below federal health standards for part of that area. (Today)

A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents on Wednesday proposed a uniform set of academic standards, laying out their vision for what all the nation's public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation. (Today)