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U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Four students were killed Tuesday in a school bus crash in southwestern Minnesota, authorities said. The students were in a Lakeview School bus that was hit by a van around 3:25 p.m. on Minnesota Highway 23 north of Cottonwood, Minnesota State Patrol L.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Seven South Carolina college students died in a weekend beach house fire in North Carolina, officials say. Authorities have not released the the victims' names, but The Associated Press has confirmed several identities through relatives and close friends:.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 4:40pm neoform

CNN -- A 14-year-old gunman shot students and teachers at a Cleveland high school, wounding four, and was then killed, the mayor told CNN affiliates WOIO and WKYC. It was not known if police shot the gunman or if he took his own life. The shooting victims.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 2:29pm neoform

USA Today -- The Houston Chronicle says Texas has added the phrase "one state, under God" to its pledge of allegiance. Since 2003, students in the Lone Star State have been required to begin their day by pledging allegiance to the state and federal governments. Stu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 9:37am neoform

www.slepton.com -- Almost a year ago, in the small northern Louisiana town of Jena, a group of white students hung three nooses from a tree in front of Jena High School. This set into motion a season of racial tension and incidents that culminated in six Black youths facing.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Washington Post -- Virginia Tech will offer the families of the 32 students and faculty members slain by Seung Hui Cho a one-time payment of $180,000 from a fund created to receive private donations in the weeks after the April 16 massacre, the administrator of the Hokie Sp.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 12:12am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- As most students at Eastern Michigan University were heading home for the holidays in December, the school put out a news release announcing that student Laura Dickinson had unexpectedly passed away in her dorm room. There was no foul play, the school.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 1:29pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Army has asked Loudoun County public schools to distribute a survey to help identify students interested in the military, a proposal some parents contend would give the armed service an unfair recruiting edge over colleges and other career paths. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

FOX News -- A teenager shot and killed himself Wednesday shortly after pointing a handgun at two other students in a high school parking lot, police said. Schools in Huntersville were locked down after the 16-year-old, whose name wasn't released, made threatening.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 4:19pm neoform

USA Today -- A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said. During a class discussion of Monday's massacre at Vi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Washington Post -- A single question stood out yesterday at Virginia Tech: Would more students be alive if the university had stopped them from going to class after a shooting occurred in a campus dorm? The first shooting was reported at 7:15 a.m. in a dormitory, West Am.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Washington Post -- Yesterday morning. Second floor. Norris Hall. In Room 207, Mr. Bishop's German class is underway. A few doors down, Professor Librescu is posting slides for his engineering students in 204. Outside, the Virginia Tech campus is gray and chilly but pretty n.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 10:59am neoform

CNN -- Amish children carrying lunch pails arrived at a new one-room schoolhouse Monday morning, marking a fresh beginning for students who survived the shooting that killed five classmates last fall. The New Hope Amish School sits a few hundred yards from th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 8:41am neoform

Yahoo News -- Cracking down on college students, the music industry is sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year as it targets music illegally downloaded over campus computer networks. A few schools, including Ohio.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 1:25pm mrmdc

USA Today -- High school students are much more likely than they were even two years ago to learn about the First Amendment in class, but their opinions about what it says and does present a mixed picture, a study says today... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 5:14pm neoform

ABC News -- An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- Plans to demolish the building where a gunman killed five Northern Illinois University students have been scrapped after the university community overwhelmingly opposed it, the school's president said Tuesday. It was also apparent, however, that the co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A school bus and several other vehicles crashed in southwestern Minnesota on Tuesday, killing four students and injuring more than a dozen others, authorities said. The bus was hit by a van around 3:25 p.m. on a highway south of Cottonwood. The bus then h.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The owner of a North Carolina beach house where seven college students died in a weekend fire said Monday that his family's "lives were just changed forever" by the tragedy. Chip Auman said his 18-year-old daughter survived the fire but was hospitalized a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 15, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- A group of college students who didn’t emerge for more than a day from a cave they were exploring have been found safe, an emergency worker said Sunday. The two women and one man were found in a 500-foot-long crawl space about the width of a sewer pi.. Read More