TTAPR on January 12th, 2012

A school resource officer with the Kernersville Police Department used a Taser to subdue a student when two students began swinging at each other Monday at East Forsyth High School. Theo Helm, a spokesman with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system, said two students had been arguing in class and the dispute became physical in a [...]

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TTAPR on November 2nd, 2011

Last Thursday, several students were taken into custody after a series of fights at Parkland High School. Winston-Salem police officers were called to assist the School Resource Officer (SRO) around 2:00 p.m. as several fights were taking place at the school. When officers arrived, students had poured into the hallways as they exited classrooms and [...]

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Police were called to a west Charlotte school three times in 9 days for fights between students. According to reports filed with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department, the fights happened at Thomasboro Academy located at 538 Bradford Drive on Tuesday, September 20 and Thursday September 29. Police say that the first incident took place around [...]

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Video posted on the Facebook web site shows two teen girls fighting on a school bus soon after it left Rosewood High School Monday, and now some parents say the driver should have done more to stop it. Parents contacted ABC11 soon after the video was posted. In the tape, the students slap and punch [...]

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Deputies said a teenager was killed Saturday night during a home invasion when someone in the house pointed a gun towards the people breaking in. Investigators told WRAL the 17-year-old who was killed was home from a juvenile justice facility for the weekend. Deputies said the boy was not alone and they also are searching [...]

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About 100 high school students refused deputies’ demands to get back in the school on Tuesday, and some of them got involved in an off-campus fight. Students started going into the Parkland High School parking lot around 2 p.m., but the students refused demands from both the principal and the school resource officer to get [...]

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Latoya Lugo says what began as a playground fight spilled over onto the internet. “Last year my son, he had, an incident at Neal Middle School with a student. He punched my son in the face and after that, he’s been getting harassing emails, and comments on his pictures on Facebook,” she said. The problem [...]

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TTAPR on March 6th, 2011

Two Gaston County teenagers were arrested on Wednesday following a fight that broke out at 10 a.m. in the auditorium at South Point High School, according to arrest warrants. Taylor Michelle Baumgardner, 16, of 1800 South Point Road, Belmont, and Akilah Rashida Collins, 18, of 44 Flowers Court, Belmont, assaulted each other by striking each [...]

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TTAPR on February 11th, 2011

 Durham school officials say hallway fights aren’t common, and what’s even more rare is when they’re caught on a camera phone. But a recent incident that’s now gone viral is raising concerns about school cell phone policies.  Punch by punch and blow by blow, a fight at Northern High was posted on YouTube site. It [...]

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TTAPR on February 11th, 2011

A fight involving brass knuckles at Gibson Southern High School Wednesday, has residents concerned. “When I heard there were brass knuckles involved, and three girls and then two of them went to the hospital, I thought it was ridiculous. Especially at Gibson Southern it’s just a quiet The rather small district is made up of 2,100 students and [...]

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