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Midland County Sheriff David Criner told the Reporter-Telegram on Sunday that the bond for the man arrested for the murder of 20-year-old Madeline Molina Pantoja is $3 million, not $300 million as the Sheriff's Office reported earlier. Criner said there was an error on the Midland County Sheriff’s Office website. Mario Juan Chacon Jr. was arrested Saturday and is being charged with murder, a first-degree felony, Midland County records show. The Midland County Sheriff’s Office current detainee list first showed that a bond has been set for “300,000,000.00.” Criner later confirmed that number is $3 million and the website would...

Every parent thinks their youngster is an academic Michael Jordan, or at least a Scottie Pippen. That is, until they see the report card. Parents can feel just as deflated by poor grades as their child, especially as the family deals with the transition from elementary to middle school and the looming importance of high school grades. ... One way the Portland School District has addressed the esteem issue is by creating a new grading system at middle schools that abandons A's and B's for grades of "always" and "often." Students in some schools, such as Harriet Tubman and Hosford...