TTAPR on September 29th, 2010

Police say there is a history between the two teens involved. An 18-year-old Wilton student was arrested on a charge of third-degree assault for allegedly throwing a 15-year-old student against a locker, choking and then throwing the victim to the floor. Police arrested Sergei Greenlee on school grounds Friday, after the victim came into the [...]

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Was Squamish school too quick to suspend fighting students? SCHOOL INVESTIGATES  WHETHER YOUNGER BOYS FORCED TO FIGHT BY OLDER STUDENTS The Sea-to-Sky school district is still investigating the student fight last Friday to determine if the younger students were forced to fight by older boys. But that didn’t stop Don Ross secondary from punishing the [...]

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GALESBURG — Two Galesburg High School students were arrested for aggravated battery early Tuesday for hitting school employees after a fight broke out around 7:30 a.m. Police responded to the school because of the fight, which was broken up by the time they arrived. Administrators were attempting to get one of the students involved in [...]

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TTAPR on September 29th, 2010

Police said 2- 17 year olds and one 19 year old got into a fight around 11:15 a.m. inside the school’s cafeteria. A spokesman from Wake County School said a school resource officer tried to break up the fight and the students assaulted the officer.  The officer then used pepper spray which also affected 15 [...]

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TTAPR on September 26th, 2010

More than two-thirds of state child welfare systems employ health professionals that handle the use of psychotropic drugs, but far fewer have mental health or medical directors to review usage, according to a study released today. The Boston-based Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute received information from child welfare departments in 47 states and the [...]

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Two 11-year-old Glenwood Middle School students have been charged with assault after they fought with another boy, breaking his arm. The victim’s mother says her son was being bullied because he is a male cheerleader. It started out as teasing, said the boy’s mother, Kristy Wilson, but then it turned physical, eventually leading to her [...]

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TTAPR on September 25th, 2010

Two Newtown High School students were charged with breach of peace after they began fighting with one another and a third student in the hallway at around 3 p.m., Thursday, police said. A 17-year-old boy was fighting with a younger student when a third student entered the mix, picked up a field hockey stick off [...]

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FLINT (WJRT) — (09/24/10) — A mother was critically injured and hospitalized after an incident outside of a Flint School. It happened at Neithercut School on Crestbrook near Hammerberg on Flint’s south side. Police say this was no accident. A student’s mother was badly hurt and another woman faces is in police custody facing charges. [...]

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TTAPR on September 25th, 2010

Pinellas Park, Florida – Complaints continue to pour in about the number of students duking it out, not only in fist fights off campus, but now we’re learning about brawls taking place on school property that have been videotaped and posted on YouTube. The latest fights to be posted on the website are from brawls [...]

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VICTORVILLE – Several high school students suffered from pepper spray exposure and scrapes when a series of fights broke out after a pep rally Friday at Victor Valley High School.No students were hospitalized, but paramedics provided medical care to them on the campus at 16500 Mojave Drive. “Our security and our staff did an excellent [...]

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