Police said a Lawrence school bus driver was shot in the arm with a pellet gun by a student aboard the bus. Authorities said the 50-year-old driver was not seriously hurt, but radioed to school officials and police to meet the bus at the school because it was unclear what kind of weapon was used. [...]
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Three teenage girls are facing criminal charges after two of them allegedly beat another girl during school. Falmouth High School staff called the Falmouth Police Department at about 10:48 a.m. Tuesday and reported the alleged assault, according to police records. The alleged beating occurred when two 15-year-old girls and a 16-year-old girl approached a Falmouth [...]
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The school district has been ordered to train all staff on policies for restraining students following an investigation by the state education department that showed that staff, particularly at the Wilbur Elementary School, had not received proper training. The state received a complaint last November from a former paraprofessional that the school had not been [...]
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MASSACHUSETTS -BOSTON — As a group worker at a juvenile correctional center, John Prevatt is willing to take an occasional punch or elbow as he tries to keep the teens who live there in line. But Prevatt has had his nose broken, been kicked in the head, had two concussions and nearly had his neck [...]
A 17-year-old man from this city, convicted last month of shooting a 14-year-old boy in the chest about a year ago, was sentenced Friday to serve 14 to 18 years in state prison. Mayoer Vann was convicted in April during a trial in Fall River Juvenile Court on charges of armed assault with intent to [...]
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A student was arrested following a fight in the cafeteria at Silver Lake Regional High School. The fight, between two boys, started at about 10:30 a.m. Monday at the beginning of the lunch period, Principal Richard Kelley said. A male teacher attempted to separate the two boys and was struck three times by one of [...]
A student was arrested following a fight in the cafeteria at Silver Lake Regional High School. The fight started between two boys at about 10:30 a.m. Monday at the beginning of the lunch period, Principal Richard Kelley said. A male teacher attempted to separate the two boys and was struck three times by one of [...]
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BRIDGEWATER — A Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School senior stole a wrench from a classroom and used it to beat a rival over the head, horrifying classmates in a bloody hallway fight Friday afternoon, police said. “It was horrible. There was blood everywhere,” senior Bob Hollstein, 17, said. Police have charged Colin Harrington, 17, of 32 [...]
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MA: Fatal Stabbing at Massachusetts High School
A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death Friday in a hallway at his high school. The student charged with the murder has a form of autism, has a history of fairly serious psychological diagnoses and has been taking medications for many years. The two boys got into a fight in a bathroom, and it spilled [...]
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