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A meeting Monday evening in which the Fox Chapel Area School District approved a universal indoor mask mandate for its facilities became heated when some in attendance began jeering board members and one man raised his arm in a Nazi salute toward the board. The actions have now prompted a rebuke from the superintendent. The incident occurred just after the board voted unanimously to approve the district’s health and safety plan and followed comments from about 20 members of the public who were closely split on whether a mask mandate should be implemented. Superintendent Mary Catherine Reljac proposed adding an...

A Pennsylvania high school student has been suspended for what his attorney calls “doing the right thing”—handing in a pocket knife that he accidentally brought to a football game. … (David) Schaffner (III, 16,) was asked to leave the game and on Monday was handed a 10-day out-of-school suspension by the Fox Chapel Area school district. The district’s parent-student handbook says students who bring weapons to school or school-related events—including knives and firearms—can be expelled for a year, Triblive.com reports. …