Marc Fogel of Oakmont has been an international teacher since he was a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In August 2021, he was arrested at the airport in Moscow for possession of 17 grams of marijuana, legally prescribed in Pennsylvania for a well-documented history of back and knee pain over decades…

“Teaching is not what you do. It’s who you are.”

President Joe Biden made that statement in May when addressing the Teachers of the Year dinner…

In a statement to The Indiana Gazette, Malphine Fogel expressed her appreciation with the newspaper’s coverage of her son Marc Fogel’s case and her family’s efforts to bring him home.

The statement came as the 95-year-old Armstrong County native and Butler resident was pressing a civil lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh against Secretary of State Antony Blinken…

Surrounded by artwork that strangers have painted of her son, 95-year-old Malphine Fogel is a lesson in practiced stoicism.

She is upbeat but pleading when she talks about her son, Marc, who is nearing the third anniversary of his detention in a Russian prison, and she is polite but firm as she expresses her immense frustration with the president and his administration…

The campaign to bring Marc Fogel home from a Russian jail now is going through an American courtroom.

The mother of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) alumnus is suing United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania…

Watch now on CBS News Pittsburgh.

BUTLER, Pa. —

The mother of an Oakmont teacher arrested in Russia in 2021 is suing the Secretary of State.

Malphine Fogel filed a lawsuit against Antony Blinken and the United States Department of State…

The campaign to bring Marc Fogel home from a Russian jail now is going through an American courtroom.

The mother of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumnus is suing United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania…

The family now has three goals, and each one leads to the next.

Force those in power to say Marc Fogel’s name…

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Marc Fogel's mother is suing the U.S. government in an effort to get her son home from Russia…

The mother of a Butler native who is currently serving prison time in Russia is now suing the federal government.

95-year-old Malphine Fogel filed the suit earlier this week, saying she has been given no explanation why her 62-year-old son Marc Fogel is not being classified as “wrongfully detained.”

Fogel was arrested three years ago after he was found in possession of medical marijuana, and was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor…

The mother of an Oakmont teacher detained in Russia for years sued the U.S. government Tuesday, accusing Secretary of State Antony Blinken of treating her son and his case differently than those of other Americans detained in Russia, namely WNBA star Brittney Griner…

Marc Fogel’s mother filed a lawsuit Tuesday in an attempt to compel the federal government to determine if her son is being wrongfully detained in a Russian prison.

Fogel, who grew up in Butler, taught English at the Anglo-American School of Moscow and was returning there in 2021 when a search of his bag turned up a small amount of medical marijuana he’d been prescribed for back pain. He was arrested, tried and sentenced to 14 years in prison for drug trafficking…

The mother of an Oakmont teacher held in Russian prisons for nearly three years filed a federal lawsuit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday against the U.S. Department of State over its failure to declare Marc Fogel as wrongfully detained…

Marc Fogel’s mother filed a lawsuit Tuesday in an attempt to compel the federal government to determine if her son is being wrongfully detained in a Russian prison…

For Malphine Fogel, it's simple. She wants her son, Marc, back home.

"He's not a criminal," Malphine Fogel said. "He is a dedicated teacher. He was always a good son, a good husband, a wonderful father and he needs to come home..."

Last week, TribLive was able to sit in on a call between Fogel and his 95-year-old mother, Malphine.

Host Zac Gibson is joined in this episode by Community Engagement editor and Opinion columnist Lori Falce to discuss this experience, listen to Fogel’s interview, and relay more of his story…

The Biden administration has expressed over and over a desire to see change regarding the way people are punished for marijuana use. The administration could take a stand on that by standing behind an American teacher in pain, in need and in a foreign prison — and just, please, bring him home.

After nearly two years in a Russian prison, Oakmont teacher Marc Fogel said Thursday he is able to live with excruciating joint pain but pleaded for U.S. officials to bring him home, the hope of a miracle never far from his thoughts…

For Marc Fogel, a Butler native, Oakmont resident and international teacher, Thursday, May 9, marks 1,000 days spent behind bars in Russia. A short film highlighting the impact of his absence and imprisonment on his family and friends will be submitted to film festivals following its screening Wednesday evening…