A Juvenile Court judge gave voice to a city’s frustration Thursday as he berated three young people for their roles in last month’s Center City youth mob attacks. “Your actions, behavior, and attitude are appalling and disgusting for civilized society,” Judge Kevin Dougherty said during a hearing for two teenagers and an 11-year-old who ran [...]

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Three teenagers accused of escaping from a Butler County youth home and getting away in a stolen limousine were caught by police in Pittsburgh on Wednesday evening. Channel 4 Action News’ Ari Hait reported that the black Cadillac sedan was found around 6 p.m. Wednesday parked outside of Oliver High School on Pittsburgh’s North Side. [...]

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TTAPR on May 25th, 2011

Channel 4 Action News reported school board members will be looking into and possibly changing the way students at Blairsville High School are disciplined as a result of the fights, captured on cellphone cameras.   The fights involved a school board member’s daughter and the superintendent’s son.  One video shows a student attacked and repeatedly punched. [...]

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An 18-year-old teenager was charged with multiple counts of assault and weapons charges for allegedly firing blanks in the parking lot of Willingboro High School, police said Thursday. Eon Delapara Jr., 18, was taken into custody shortly after the Wednesday afternoon incident at the school on John F. Kennedy Way, said Lt. Joseph Dey, spokesman [...]

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SCRANTON – City police responded to a fight that broke out among students at West Scranton High School on Monday. The altercation among seven or eight students began when one student threw an object at another, Scranton School District Superintendent William King said. Read more: http://thetimes-tribune.com/police-called-to-fight-at-west-scranton-high-school-1.1140854#ixzz1LUo3V9mo

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Punching, kicking, and pulling out hair, the 10 girls attacked one another in a brutal battle that erupted seconds after an exchange of words outside Bridget Finnegan’s third-period Spanish class at Martin Luther King High. Concerned that a pregnant girl was caught in the middle of the March 30 melee, Finnegan waded into the confused [...]

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TTAPR on April 12th, 2011

Charges have been filed against eight Hannah Penn students. The students are accused of beating another student on Thursday, March 31. A teacher broke up the beating before it got out of hand. All the juveniles have been charged with aggravated assault, Riot, simple assault and disorderly conduct. All the students were 8th graders ranging from [...]

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State police said they had to use a stun gun on a Central Dauphin High School student to end a melee that erupted on a school bus Tuesday afternoon. The bus hadn’t left school grounds around 2:45 p.m. when five male students — it’s unknown if they were juveniles — began fighting. A school principal [...]

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 A judge has dismissed the criminal case against a Chambersburg caretaker who allegedly sat on a man with Down syndrome until he died. Joseph Easton, 39, had been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Sept. 9 death of Timothy Smith, 37. During a preliminary hearing this morning, Magisterial District Judge David Hawbaker decided there was [...]

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A 15-year-old Susquehanna Township High School boy who was slapped in the face by a 14-year-old girl this morning responded by pummeling the girl with his fist, police said. View full sizeThe Patriot-News/fileThe boy, whose name was not released because he’s a juvenile, will be charged with simple assault. The girl suffered minor injuries and [...]

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