Former House Majority Leader James Vallee will be with them, because he was one of the second-grade lobbyists in 1974 who urged the Legislature to pass H 5155: An Act designating the ladybug as ...

BISMARCK - A group of North Dakota second-graders will go all out next week in their effort to convince state lawmakers to make the ladybug the state insect.

The law was passed in 1974 after a large group of second graders from Kennedy School in Franklin, Mass. visited lawmakers at the State House in Boston while wearing homemade ladybug costumes.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's House has taken its cue from a group of second graders and decided the ladybug should be the state insect. Representatives voted 88-6 on Thursday to approve ...

Spring arrived as a swarm of ladybugs — New Hampshire's state bug — invaded Tammy Thomson's first-grade classroom, where students were studying their math facts by creating a colorful family ...

BOSTON — Ms. Johnson's second grade class from John F. Kennedy Memorial School in Franklin is returning to the State House today, and their story from 50 years ago shows how a teacher and a ...