Suffolk boys suspended after using pencils as guns – HamptonRoads.com – PilotOnline.com

SUFFOLK Two second-grade students were suspended from school this week for pointing pencils at each other and making shooting noises. The boys, both students at Driver Elementary, violated the school division’s weapons policy, which prohibits   Original post on hamptonroads.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Heroic 14-year-old boy lets fleeing rape victim into his house and fends off attacker with a knife

Armed with only a simple hunting knife, James Persyn, 14 faced down a rapist trying to break into his Shepherd, Michigan home last week, proving himself a hero to his younger brother and sister and the the man’s victim.   Original post on dailymail.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

UPDATE: Parents whom son allegedly shot missed court because they were in the hospital, pastor says – Latest News

The parents of the boy accused of shooting them in anger over their telling him to finish a household chore Friday were not able to attend their son’s Muscogee Juvenile Court hearing Monday because they were in the hospital, their pastor said today.   Original post on ledger-enquirer.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Teens Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges Following Saratoga Suicide

Only on NBC Bay Area: Three 16-year-old boys are under arrest, facing possible charges in an alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old female student at Saratoga High School.   Original post on nbcbayarea.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Rehtaeh Parsons suicide: Anonymous issues attack on N.S. justice system – Canada – News

One day after threatening to release the identities of four boys allegedly involved in the gang rape of teen Rehtaeh Parsons, the hacktivist group Anonymous has issued a blistering attack on Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry and other authority figures for the failure to prosecute in the case.   Original post on nationalpost.com    Comments on reddit.com   

FBI foils massacre plan at Northamptonshire school

A British teenager’s plans to carry out a massacre at his school using handguns and explosives was foiled by the FBI after agents received a tip-off from an American chatroom user, a court has heard.   Original post on telegraph.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

Guilty verdicts in Steubenville trial won’t end rape case

Two players on the Steubenville High School football team were found guilty yesterday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl, a verdict that some hope will start healing a Rust Belt town that has been ripped apart by accusations of a cover-up to protect its athletes.   Original post on patch.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Arizona woman’s murder conviction, death sentence overturned

A federal judge overturns an Arizona woman’s murder verdict and death sentence after noting a police detective’s history of   Original post on cnn.com    Comments on reddit.com   

‘A concentration camp for little boys’: Dark secrets unearthed in KKK county – Americas – World

For years, almost no one at the Dozier School even knew about the burial ground in a clearing in the woods on the edge of campus. It was forbidden territory. The soil here, churned in places by tiny ants, holds more than the remains of little boys. Only now is it starting to give up its dark secrets: horror stories of state-sanctioned barbarism, including flogging, sexual assault and, possibly, murder.   Original post on independent.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

Father indicted in death of drunk driver – Houston Chronicle

An Alvin father remained in the Brazoria County Jail Monday, charged with murder in the alleged revenge killing of a drunk driver who plowed into his truck, killing his two young sons last December. David Barajas Sr., 31, a construction worker, is being held in lieu of $450,000 bail in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Jose Inez Banda minutes after the Dec. 7 crash that claimed the lives of Barajas’ 11- and 12-year-old sons. Tests showed Banda’s blood alcohol was twice the legal limit when his Chevrolet Malibu rear-ended the Barajas’ family’s Ford 250 truck that had run out of gas on an unlit county road near Alvin, investigators said. Several minutes after the crash, 911 operators began receiving phone calls about the accident and recorded a sound of gunfire. During a two-month investigation, authorities located a witness who reported seeing David Barajas walk from the crash scene to his nearby home and return to Banda’s car, after which the witness heard gunshots. Felicia, Banda’s wife, now raising their infant daughter alone, posted several comments just before the murder indictment was announced. The Facebook page earlier had been a battleground, with angry postings by supporters of Banda, who complained of a vigilante killing, and supporters of Barajas, who described the boys’ deaths as murders.   Original post on chron.com    Comments on reddit.com   

7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real – KDVR.com – Denver News, Weather – Sports from FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado

LOVELAND, Colo. — A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing.The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.   Original post on fox31news.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Anti-gay Republican Senate candidate faces trial for abusing a boy

THERE was never a chance that the Republicans would snatch Delaware from Democratic Party control, but they had high hopes for their State Senate candidate Eric R Bodenweiser, a rabid…   Original post on freethinker.co.uk    Comments on reddit.com   

Elmo Voice Kevin Clash Denies Sex w/ Underage Boy – Takes Leave of Absence from Sesame Street

Kevin Clash — the man known as the voice of Elmo — has taken a leave of absence from Sesame Street in the wake of allegations he had a sexual…   Original post on tmz.com    Comments on reddit.com   

‘The Fight Over Medical Marijuana’

An Op-Doc profiles Chris Williams, a medical marijuana grower in Montana who now faces life in prison. The filmmaker explores how Mr. Williams is a casualty of conflicting national and state drug laws.   Original post on nytimes.com    Comments on reddit.com   

Piedmont Mom Gets $2,500 Ticket After Son, 3, Urinates In Yard – News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports -

A 3 year old gets his mom in trouble with the law when he gets a ticket from police. Now the little boy’s mother will have to pay thousands of dollars for what the toddler did in their own front yard.   Original post on news9.com    Comments on reddit.com   

USA: Student attacks officer, is shot and killed

University of South Alabama Police report that an officer shot and killed an individual at approximately 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 6, after the man, identified as a USA student, attacked the officer just outside the police department on Stadium Drive.   Original post on tv.com    Comments on reddit.com