Students in the Ambridge School District start classes today. Ambridge is the last of the districts in Beaver County to go back this year. According to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano, the school board recently hired 2 school psychologists.They are Stacy Boal and Donald Dennison. Genna Risenbauer was hired as the district’s new speech therapist. Daniel Kornosky is the new Spanish teacher…and Sarah Bogan will teach Spanish and English. The board’s next meeting is Wednesday, September 21 at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium.

A Superior Court panel is rejecting the appeal of a boy who was 11 when he was charged with killing his father’s pregnant fiancee in Lawrence County. The three-member panel ruled Thursday that it had found no error in how a county judge handled the case of Jordan Brown, now 18. A judge last year denied Brown’s request to dismiss the charges or grant a new juvenile court trial. Defense lawyers had challenged the sufficiency of the evidence and how the judge had considered it. Brown was charged as a juvenile and adjudicated delinquent in the 2009 shotgun slaying of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk, who was eight months pregnant. In June, the judge put Brown on probation in the custody of an uncle who lives in Ohio, just across the border from Lawrence County.