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Firecrackers Spark Fears at Central East High Days After Texas Shooting

  Story updated at 3:11 p.m. Friday: Students set off firecrackers Friday morning in a restroom at Central East High School, sparking fears that were heightened because of the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers. On Friday afternoon, a parent posted on Facebook...

Bullard High Student Texts Shooting Hoax, Schools Locked Down

A student's text about an active shooting at Bullard High School that caused a lockdown at the northwest Fresno school and two neighboring schools was a hoax, Fresno police Capt. Burke Farrah said Thursday. The visibly angry Farrah said that the shooting report and lockdown unnecessarily caused panic for many...

School Shooting Suspect Described as Quiet, Smart

SANTA CLARITA — People who knew the 16-year-old boy suspected of killing two students in a burst of gunfire at a high school outside Los Angeles described him as a quiet, smart kid who they’d never expect would violently snap. One fellow junior at Saugus High School said he was a Boy...

Trump’s Safety Panel to Revoke School Discipline Rules

The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to roll back an Obama-era policy that was meant to curb racial disparities in school discipline but that critics say left schools afraid to take action against potentially dangerous students. The recommendation was among dozens issued in a new report by Trump's federal school...

Teacher Who Stopped Gunman Says He Had To Save Students

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A suburban Indianapolis teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student inside his classroom said Monday that his swift decisions "were the only acceptable actions" to save his seventh-grade students. Jason Seaman, speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting Friday, thanked the Noblesville...

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