Teen drug abuse tilting toward prescribed meds They’re relatively cheap. They’re often acceptable. They’re easy to get. And they’re in the schools.

Four writers for The Journal won a Minnesota Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest award for a series on prescription drug use among area high school students.

The Littlefork-Big Falls School Board Wednesday approved the hiring of three people for the district for the 2008-2009 school year. Sara Kennedy was approved as Spanish instructor, a position at 33...