Some east Boulder County commuters were diverted off Arapahoe Road on Wednesday evening after one driver told police she saw a man in camouflage point what appeared to be an AK-47 at cars along the busy street.The initial report came at about 5:30 p.m. from a female driver who said she saw someone aim a […]
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US: Police say scare was a teenager with a fake rifle
Students in Texas School told to fight back
Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got - books, pencils, legs and arms."Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals […]
'Bully' game targeted in the US
The developers of controversial videogame Bully have defended the title in the wake of a threatened injunction in Florida, in the US.Lawyer Jack Thompson is attempting to stop the game going on sale, arguing it would cause a public nuisance.The judge in the case has agreed to take a look at the title and play […]
UK: 'Make cookery compulsory' demand
Health organisations, teachers' unions and children's charities are demanding compulsory cookery lessons in schools.More than 50 bodies, including the British Heart Foundation, say it is a scandal that so many pupils leave school unable to cook.They said voluntary lessons in cookery would not reach those pupils most likely to have poor eating habits.The Department for […]
UK: Youth guilty of 8m school arson
A 17-year-old youth has been found guilty of an arson attack that caused
US: Albuquerque schools reopen, student admits lying
Three Albuquerque schools were locked down and SWAT teams searched the area around a middle school Thursday before an eighth-grader admitted she lied about seeing a man with a knife on campus, police said.The schools were reopened in late morning after authorities determined 13-year-old Julie McEwen's story was phony and there was no threat.The girl, […]
US: Missouri Teen Fires Assault Rifle in School
A 13-year-old boy in a dark-green trench coat and mask carried an assault rifle into his school Monday, pointed it at students and fired a shot into a ceiling before the weapon jammed, authorities said. No one was hurt."Please don't make me do this," the boy said, according to school administrators, before police arrested him […]
US: School Board Blocks High School Drama Club Production
Yakima's A.C. Davis High's production of The Laramie Project has been canceled, because the play "could be perceived as promoting homosexuality.""We'd brought it up in the meetings...there might be issues we never really expected it was going to be the school district," said drama club president and Davis senior Kristie Prescott. Prescott and several drama […]
US: Mock documentary could get superintendent fired
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A suburban school superintendent says he was only trying to be funny when he took videotaped interviews with his new teachers, spliced in his own gag questions and made the faculty members look like killers, strippers and drug users.Now he could lose his job."How do you like to unwind?" Bremen High […]
US: Ohio vandals give 6,700 students a day off
NEWARK, Ohio (AP) -- The city's school district took the unusual step of canceling Monday's classes for all 6,700 students because vandals trashed the city's school bus fleet twice during the weekend.The shutdown was intended to give police time to investigate all 50 buses for damage and evidence that could lead to the perpetrators, district […]
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