It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on. As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van […]
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Police Are Allegedly Assaulted By A 12-Year-Old Girl
Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms
A few weeks before 13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in "time-out.""We thought that meant go sit in the corner and be quiet for a few minutes," Tina King said, tears washing her face as she remembered the child she called "our baby ... a good […]
Man throws shoes at Bush in Iraq
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32 graves at centre of investigation into Florida reform school
AN investigation has been opened into 32 anonymous graves at a Florida reform school after claims that young orphans and tearaways were flogged and tortured to death by guards.Former residents of the Florida School for Boys in Marianna believe that the shallow graves, which date to the 1950s and 1960s, contain the crushed skulls and […]
Teacher Throws Fit Over Student's Linux CD
In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of an operating system in class.While teacher "Karen" was clearly operating under the assumption that she'd scored a minor […]
School autopsy tours canceled
For the first time in nearly a decade, the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office isn't offering public school tours this year after a bizarre coincidence this past spring in which a high school group from Waterford watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from the same district.Oakland County officials said they decided to stop the […]
Pelahatchie Students Claim Girl Possessed By Devil
Students at a Pelahatchie high school said, for three days this week, a girl there spoke in tongues and made grave predictions for her classmates.Some of those predictions included when students would die.Pelahatchie High School students called the 16 WAPT newsroom convinced that an evil spirit had taken over Lashundra Clanton. "It was disturbing to […]
Teachers take flight from state schools
Growing numbers of teachers are quitting state schools to work in the independent sector. About one in four (12,000) of the teachers in private schools has been "poached" from the state sector, shows research by the University of Kent.In the past year alone, 1,500 teachers quit, the highest number for at least two decades, which […]
Elementary student stabs classmate
Investigators say the suspect stabbed a 10-year-old girl with a pencil causing a puncture wound on the upper portion of her back.An argument between the pair happened when the suspect discovered his pencil box was missing from his desk. The item was found in the victim's possession.Detectives have charged the suspect with assault with a […]
Student Arrested For 'Passing Gas'
STUART, Fla. -- A student at a Florida school has been arrested after authorities say he was "passing gas" and turned off his classmates' computers.According to a report released Friday by the Martin County Sheriff's Office, the 13-year-old boy "continually disrupted his classroom environment" by intentionally breaking wind. He then shut off some computers other […]
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