"I can't stand up here and pretend I want to be doing this speech right now," the teen said in his graduation speech -- wearing boots still muddy from burying his father hours earlier. A North Texas ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A transgender teenager is raising his voice after he says Cumberland County school administrators censored his graduation speech. Gray Byrd, 18, was the valedictorian at ...

A North Carolina high school valedictorian thanked God and proclaimed his faith in Christ during his speech last weekend, according to a legal firm that urged him to push back against attempts by his ...

DALLAS - A North Texas high school valedictorian touched the hearts of many when he delivered a moving graduation speech just hours after burying his father. Alem Hadzic graduated at the top of his ...

"I can’t throw something away that he worked so hard for me to achieve," Alem Hadzic said during his graduation speech Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...

When 18-year-old Alem Hadzic took the stage to deliver a speech at his recent high school graduation, the valedictorian told "Good Morning America" his arms were shaking, and his shoes were stained ...

Bishop Carroll Catholic High School is asking a student to return his valedictorian medal in exchange for his diploma and transcripts after deviating from a previously approved graduation speech, ...

Straight-A Oklahoma graduate denied diploma for saying "hell' in her Speech. Aug. 20, 2012 — -- The father of a recent high-school graduate who has been denied a diploma because she said "hell" ...