Farting in America : kid arrested after confessing to farting and disruptive ...

What is criminal and what is not? In Florida a 13 year old was arrested after he confessed to farting and turning his classmates' computers off."A student at Spectrum Junior-Senior High School was arrested earlier...

Student shot, killed in Tennessee high school

"KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A student fatally shot a 16-year-old classmate during a dispute Thursday at a Knoxville high school, and a suspect was taken into custody moments later on a nearby street, authorities said. ...

Three Years--Still No Justice for Natalee Holloway

This weekend marked three years in the infamous disappearance of Alabama teen, Natalee Holloway, who was last seen with Joran van der Sloot in Aruba while on vacation with her graduating high school classmates.For...

Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

A thorny issue indeed, where is the line betweena  study group and giving away answers?"Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower – but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by...

Intel Won't Give Laptops to Children

Will the One Laptop Per Child dream ever be fully-realized?"Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Thursday it will drop out of the One Laptop Per Child project and resign from the board after...

Jena 6 Teen Jailed for Assault AGAIN!

Mychal Bell, the teenager associated with the controversial civil rights figures the "Jena 6" has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for another assault and counts of criminal destruction of property. The teen...

Russian serial killer says murder is like love

Transcendental creepiness:"MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian man accused of murdering 49 people asked a court on Tuesday to add another eleven victims to his tally, and told a jury when he first strangled a man it was like falling in love for the first time."

Flick some paper, go to court

Good thing he didn't dip anyone's pigtails in an inkwell- it could have been so much worse!"A boy of 12 boy was dragged through the courts for three months after being charged with grievous bodily harm for flicking a piece of paper at a classmate. He was told to go to his...

E-mail mistakes that make you look bad

"I get an awful lot of e-mail. Sometimes, people are looking for help with their computers. Some of it is fan mail. Other folks are mad about something I said or wrote. Add to this the barrage of press releases and an occasional blast from the past when a former classmate or...

Lovesick girl's suicide attempt kills mother of 3

"There was what might be described as a countdown to the actual event — 10, 9, 8 … then the crash," District Attorney Paul Howard said.

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