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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 Sat Dec 15, 2007 @ 4:58pm neoform

Local 6 -- An elementary student in Marion County was arrested Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said. The 10-year-old girl, a student at Sunrise Elementary School in Ocala, was cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 12, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Assailants shot six young people Tuesday at a school bus stop, wounding two critically, in a midday attack that followed a fight over a high school girl, authorities said. School police arrested three teenagers in the fight hours before the shooting in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- PDT FREMONT - A 17-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with killing a Fremont man across from a high school, court records show. Keith Stamps was charged with one count of murder in the shooting death last week of Elric Wheeler, 24, at a strip ma.. 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 Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 2:35pm neoform

www.freedomsphoenix.com -- Safford Middle School officials did not violate the civil rights of a 13-year-old Safford girl when they forced her to disrobe and expose her breasts and pubic area four years ago while looking for a drug, according to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appe.. 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 Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 12:30pm neoform

USA Today -- Brittany Vojta survived boot camp. It was high school she couldn't make it through. So the National Guard ran her through a program it started this year in Pennsylvania for privates who drop out of high school after having joined the military. In an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

SF Gate -- Three friends were forced to kneel against a wall behind an elementary school and were shot to death at close range, and a fourth was found about 30 feet away with gunshot and knife wounds to her head, police said. All were from Newark and planned to a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 15, 2007 @ 10:04pm neoform

FOX News -- Text messages were sent and received on a 17-year-old driver's cell phone moments before the sport utility vehicle slammed head-on into a truck, killing her and four other recent high school graduates, police said. Bailey Goodman was driving her friend.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 6:39pm neoform

BBC News -- A former high school student has lost his case in what is the US Supreme Court's first major ruling on students' free speech rights in almost 20 years. At issue was whether a school principal violated a student's right to free speech by suspending him.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 12:39am neoform

FOX News -- A school crossing guard accused of molesting seven children was charged with more than 1,000 counts of sexual assault. Dale Hutchings was arrested Tuesday and charged with 305 counts of raping a child, 356 counts of aggravated indecent assault against.. 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 Fri May 25, 2007 @ 4:49pm neoform

SF Gate -- A teenager was arrested on hate crime charges for allegedly removing a Sikh student's turban and forcibly cutting off his hair in a school bathroom, authorities said Friday. Umair Ahmed, 17, was charged with unlawful imprisonment, menacing and aggravat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

CNN -- A high school in Colorado was locked down Thursday amid unconfirmed reports that two masked men were seen entering the building. Officers from various law enforcement agencies could be seen outside Boulder High School, and the entrances to the parking.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 9:15am neoform

FOX News -- The school superintendent denied Wednesday that his district was discriminating against a high school freshman for not allowing her to wear a pagan symbol on her cheek to celebrate a religious holiday. Hanover Community School Superintendent Michael Li.. 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 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 Mar 29, 2007 @ 1:13pm neoform

Metro.co.uk -- A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate. But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 5:50pm neoform

USA Today -- A high school principal was acting reasonably and in accord with the school's anti-drug mission when she suspended a student for displaying a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner, her lawyer told the Supreme Court Monday. "The message here is, in fact, critical,.. Read More