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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 Sun Sep 9, 2007 @ 7:57pm neoform

CNN -- A body believed to be missing Brigham Young University student Camille Cleverley was found Sunday, authorities said. The body was discovered in Provo Canyon, Utah, said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Spencer Cannon. Cleverley, 22, a senior from Boise, Idaho,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 12:44pm neoform

FOX News -- A Purdue University graduate student was convicted of threatening to kill President Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and others in postings on the Internet. Vikram Buddhi, 35, an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue'.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:38pm neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court ruled against a former high school student Monday in the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner case -- a split decision that limits students' free speech rights. Joseph Frederick was 18 when he unveiled the 14-foot paper sign on a public sidewal.. 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 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 Tue May 22, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform

USA Today -- A nursing student told women he met on an online dating site that he was a doctor, an astronaut or spy in a ruse to lure them out so he could drug and rape them, a prosecutor said Monday. Jeffrey J. Marsalis, the 34-year-old on-and-off student, met six.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

FOX News -- A body found in a portable toilet near Waco has been identified as a Southern Methodist University student reported missing late last week in Dallas, police said Tuesday. Meaghan Bosch, 21, whose father said the family learned about two months ago that.. 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 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- A gunman who shot dead at least 30 people before killing himself at Virginia Tech university was a resident Asian student, its president has said. Charles Steger did not identify the man, whom he said had been living in the university dormitories. A.. 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 Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 5:54pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A distraught graduate student claiming to have a bomb and anthrax sparked a scare early Tuesday that shut down the University of Missouri-Rolla, officials said, but the threat turned out to be a hoax. Preliminary tests on a white, powdery substance fou.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 9:52am mrmdc

FOX News -- To an Arizona middle school, Batman! Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 18, 2007 @ 10:00am mrmdc

Los Angeles Times -- The UCLA student tasered in the Powell Library when he refused to show his identification to campus police today filed a federal lawsuit alleging that his civil rights were violated and that police acted in a brutal fashion... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 9, 2007 @ 12:15pm mrmdc

www.zwire.com -- A college student who mistakenly submitted a compact disc loaded with child pornography images to his professor last week is now facing felony kiddie porn possession charges... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 9:09pm neoform

The News Tribune -- A student was shot and killed at Foss High School before first bell Wednesday, and police reported capturing a suspect about two hours later... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 8:09pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The latest in a recent spate of cellphone videos documenting questionable arrest tactics surfaced Wednesday, this one showing a UCLA police officer using a Taser to stun a student who allegedly refused to leave the campus library... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 16, 2006 @ 9:24am mrmdc

Mercury News -- A camera phone captured a UCLA student being shot with a stun gun by a police officer after he allegedly refused repeated requests to show his student identification and would not leave a campus library, university police said Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 16, 2006 @ 8:18am neoform

CBS News -- UCLA Police Department officers administered multiple taser shots to a 23-year-old student in the Powell Library computer lab, it was reported Wednesday... Read More