A 13-year-old autistic student is facing felony battery charges in Florida for allegedly hitting a middle school speech therapist in the head with headphones. According to the Pensacola News Journal, Conner Brown was charged on Jan. 2 for battery on a public or private education employee, considered a third-degree felony. He was scheduled to be [...]
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A 17-year-old student battered a Walton County sheriff’s deputy during a fight at Walton Academy on Friday afternoon, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Benjamin Dowdy, a school resource officer, tried to break up a fight that broke out among students about 1 p.m., according to an arrest report from the Sheriff’s Office. One student, [...]
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A school bus beating left a teenager unconscious and led to the arrest of seven classmates Friday. Authorities with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said the attack happened Friday morning as the bus was heading to Liberty Middle School. Investigators said the brawl was triggered when a girl wanted a seat on the bus and [...]
Six Marianna High School students were suspended for multiple days after a dispute over a stolen I-pad led to a scuffle in a boys’ bathroom and a disturbance in a hallway of the school last Friday. MHS Principal Mary Sue Neves said one of the two boys involved in the restroom scuffle required medical attention [...]
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Authorities used pepper spray to break up a lunch-time fight between two girls at a St. Petersburg middle school. Principal Connie Kolosey told the St. Petersburg Times (http://bit.ly/sEsXtB ) that the fight broke out Thursday between the 13-year-old girls. Several adults intervened and at some point a school resource officer pepper-sprayed the teens. The newspaper [...]
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A fight video has been released that sparked Flagler County schools to look into stun guns on campuses. A Flagler County deputy was taken down and punched several times by a high school student at Matanzas High School. Deputies used to carry stun guns on campus until an incident four years ago when a deputy [...]
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olice released surveillance video of a fight aboard a school bus that led to adult relatives getting involved and going to jail. Broward Sheriff’s Office reports the Sept. 7 incident began when two 11-year-old girls got into a fight at a bus stop. One went home but later met the bus and was allowed to [...]
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FL. Palm Beach Schools Restrict Prone Restraint and Students Escalate Violence Off Campus Using Guns
Three STUDENTS were arrested after shots were fired this afternoon. Indications are that students from William T. Dwyer High School and the Riviera Beach Prep Academy were involved, and that the shooting may be related to an incident that occurred earlier in the day at Dwyer High School. No one was hit by the shots, [...]
A South Florida teen is speaking out for the first time after he was struck by bullets while walking home from school. The teen, whose family wants to keep his identity private, is recovering from four gunshot wounds he sustained after he was shot while walking home from Miami Carol City Senior High School. “I [...]
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The 17-year-old charged with plotting to blow up Freedom High School was ordered to be held without bond by a judge this morning. Jared Cano, who will now be tried as an adult, was transferred to the orient Road Jail Thursday after being held since Aug. 16 by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. According [...]
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