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UPDATED: Michigan AG reveals program to prevent school violence
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general laid out a proposal Tuesday aimed at preventing violence in schools by creating a confidential tipline for parents and students to report potentially dangerous behavior. Bill Schuette announced the...
Tags: Justice System, Students, Crime, Law and Justice, PTA, Separation of Church and State
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UConn Study: When Video Game Players See Enemy As Human, They Are More Aggressive
The Hartford CourantA new study of video games found that a player's perception of enemies as human, not alien, led the player to be more verbally aggressive afterward. The study also found that men were more physically aggressive than women in behavioral tests taken...Tags: PlayStation, Wake Forest University, Entertainment, Colleges and Universities, University of Connecticut
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Bill Would Provide Federal Aid For Newtown School
The Hartford CourantHARTFORD – Three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut are planning to file legislation that would allow the use of federal dollars to help pay for the construction of a new Sandy Hook Elementary School. If approved, it would mark the...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Politics, House Building, Heavy Engineering, Gun Control
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Panel urges rebuilding of Connecticut school on site of massacre
ReutersNEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A special task force of elected town officials on Friday recommended tearing down Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were shot to death in December, and rebuilding it on the site...Tags: Politics, Shootings, Adam Lanza, Teachers, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Decision Delayed On Location For New Sandy Hook Elementary School
The Hartford CourantDetermining the future site of a new Sandy Hook Elementary School will take at least another week, and possibly longer, members of a 28-member task force said Friday night after being briefed on the trauma suffered by the school's staff. The briefing,...Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Renovation, Health and Safety at School
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Mother's quest to find treatment for son highlights mental health system's limitations
When Chris Marciano was 4 years old, he would have a blistering tantrum whenever music came on the radio. By the second grade, his teacher described him as "not with us." At age 11, he was kicked out of school. "The pediatrician said he was just...
Tags: Symptoms, Mental Illness, Suicide, Bipolar Disorder, Hospitals and Clinics
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Lakeland police: 3 middle school students had plans to create 'chaos'
Three Lakeland middle schoolers were arrested on conspiracy charges after, police say, they had plans to create mass "chaos" at Sleepy Hill Middle School. One 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were all arrested and face charges...
Tags: Students, Adam Lanza, Eric Harris, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Teaching and Learning
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Troopers being trained to take down shooters
The StateThe bullets whizzing down the halls of an abandoned dorm at the South Carolina Sanatorium were not real. But that hardly mattered to SC Highway Patrol Senior Trooper Bridget Wyant as she guarded the rear of a four-man squad shuffling toward screams...Tags: Politics, Safety of Citizens, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Law Enforcement
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School Safety Legislation: A Tally by State
Education Week, Bethesda, Md.After the devastating school shootings in Newtown, Conn., in December, state lawmakers around the country vowed to act. The mission: Devise ways to prevent a similar tragedy. They came up with hundreds of possible strategies. An Education Week...Tags: Politics, Martin O'Malley, Regional Authority, Labor Legislation, Gun Control
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School safety demands more study
Let's go back several years to the Columbine High School shootings. Before my retirement I was a police officer and director of school security. I learned that notes of the two Columbine shooters said that the first person they were going to look for...Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control
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Daum: Getting it wrong in Boston
As social media sites have pelted out news of the Boston bombing, playing fast and loose with the numbers of the dead and injured and amplifying hearsay into a cacophony of confusion, one tweet seemed to say it all: "Dear Journalism: Get yourself together...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Reddit Inc., Weddings, John F. Kennedy, The New York Times
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Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat
WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...
Tags: John McCain, Politics, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Same-Sex Marriage, Joe Manchin III
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Apr 18, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
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