That was the practice for one Texas school district before a student's family said the practice violated the separation between church and state. Although crowds don't pray here before football games, local coaches say many times student athletes gather to pray in locker rooms before a game. Carol Reyan and her three daughters were asleep in their Salemville home when fire broke out in Carol's bedroom. The family was able to escape without injury. Three fire companies helped to fight the blaze.
Fire fighters say the house and contents are totally destroyed.
The Northern Bedford County School District is accepting donations to help the family. The woman who server alcohol to a 20-year old who was killed by a train will not go to jail. In 1998 Robert Miller of Gallitzin was hit by a train as he sat along a set of tracks across from the Schooner bar in Cresson. Miller had a blood alcohol level of .27 at the time of the accident. Cambria County Judge Timothy Creany ordered Sherry to share her story with high school students about the dangers of underage drinking.