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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  School Shootings
High School in Manhattan, were seriously wounded when a teenager opened fire at the school.
The boy, who was obsessed with the Columbine shootings, pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder and, in November 2000, was sentenced to three-years in jail.
A third student was injured during the shooting at a junior high school in Moses Lake, Wash.
www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/crime/school_violence/school_shootings.html   (2402 words)

  
 In Honor of Columbine High School.
After the violence, her red Acura, parked where she left it in a lot between a park and the school, became a flower- and card-covered shrine, often surrounded by weeping and praying classmates.
A transfer student from Lakewood High School, he was shot in the head execution-style in the school library, specifically because of his race and athletic interests, witnesses said.
The song written and performed at the Memorial Observance Sunday by brothers Jonathan and Stephen Cohen, students at Columbine High School, is available on CD for $11.95.
www.geocities.com /Wellesley/1327/school.html   (1661 words)

  
 Injured and Survivors of the Columbine High School shooting
She graduated from Columbine High on May 23, 1999, and went on to the University of Colorado.
Kacey had transferred to Columbine just months before the shootings because two of her friends had committed suicide and another had died of leukemia at her old school and her parents wanted her to be in a more positive environment.
Her father had attended Columbine and when she moved to Littleton to live with him, she chose to attend the school he had gone to.
www.acolumbinesite.com /victim/injured.html   (12561 words)

  
 The REAL Columbine
On the 15th Columbine High School teacher Patti Nielson has announced her leave of absence from the school to deal with the emotional pain involved in being a witness to the tragedy of April 20th.
When the teacher is being asked by the school board not to become involved in something that is out of their area of expertise (via the resolution), the end result is the removal of fifty percent of the diagnostic criteria currently being used by the APA to validate putting children on prescription drugs.
Antonio was a fifth-grader at Centennial Elementary School.
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 Hit Lists - TheTrenchcoat Chronicles
Joplin High School in Missouri has heightened security in the wake of text messages that allude to some kind of threat to take place on Friday the 13th.
She sent the school into lockdown when she claimed an armed man dressed in fl was walking the halls.
Hit lists and bomb threats at Buchanan High School all came in the form of letters from a student, and police say all were a joke.
www.thetrenchcoat.com /categories/17-Hit-Lists   (2615 words)

  
  ipedia.com: Columbine High School massacre Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Some analysts argued that part of the killers' problem may have been a result of their constant exposure to violent imagery in such video games, as well as music, and movies, theorizing that their obsession with these forms of media may have led them to have trouble telling the difference between reality and fantasy.
In response to concerns over the causes of Columbine and other school massacres, many schools later instituted new anti-bully policies as well as so-called "zero tolerance" approaches to weapons and threatening behavior.
The massacre was one of the subjects of the controversial 2001 Michael Moore documentary film Bowling for Columbine, about the culture of violence in the US.
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  List of victims of the Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of victims of the Columbine High School massacre.
Those killed in the Columbine High School massacre.
Two other students and one teacher were injured in the school after taking a 15ft (4.6m) fall through the ceiling above the staff lounge in an attempt to escape from the school.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_victims_of_the_Columbine_High_School_massacre   (145 words)

  
 cbs4denver.com - Columbine, Minnesota School Shootings Eerily Similar
Memories of the Columbine High School massacre have reverberated across Colorado as eerie parallels emerged between the 1999 shootings in Colorado and a deadly school rampage Monday in rural Minnesota.
School violence experts have said the country improved campus safety after the Columbine shootings, most notably by restricting access to schools, increasing the number of school police officers, developing emergency plans and adding phones and radios in schools.
Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis, who was in charge of the school during the 1999 shootings, said he will call in additional counselors when students return from spring break next week if he thinks they will be needed.
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 Salon Feature | Inside the Columbine High investigation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As investigators get closer to producing an official report about the Columbine High School massacre, it is already clear that much of what was reported last spring about the motives and methods of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was untrue.
Schools, parents and communities can work to combat racism, or anti-Christian prejudice, or the schoolyard cruelty that might lead students to seek revenge against jocks, but fighting against indiscriminate hate is much thornier.
Many Columbine students are still unaware that the killers lay dead hours before they fled the building with their hands on their heads.
www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/09/23/columbine/print.html   (3371 words)

  
 Columbine Massacre and the  Killers
His friend Seth Tenebaum, who was then a 17 year old senior at Mayo High School in Rochester, Minn. and Sapel Berg, an 18-year-old senior in Plattsburgh, each knew Harris, and his mother, when his family lived in New York.
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Klebold and Harris made videos, and kept diaries, describing their plans for the massacre, and the sheriff refuses to release them, because of a possible anti-Semitic connections.
judicial-inc.biz /columbine_killers.htm   (940 words)

  
 School Violence
Amid turbulent national debate over school shootings, government researchers are reporting a largely unheralded decline in high school violence in the 1990s, with far fewer students saying they carried a weapon or engaged in fights than at the beginning of the decade.
Columbine High School is a culture where initiation rituals meant upperclass wrestlers twisted the nipples of freshman wrestlers until they turned purple and tennis players sent hard volleys to younger teammates' backsides.
High school athletic events -- intended to be constructive and fun -- have taken an increasingly ugly turn toward beatings and racial incidents this past year in the Bay Area.
www.cooperativeadventures.com /violence.htm   (12378 words)

  
 Suit planned against parents of Columbine High shooters   (Site not responding. Last check: )
DENVER — An attorney for the relatives of a student slain in the Columbine High massacre said Wednesday he plans to file a $250 million lawsuit against the parents of student gunmen Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris.
"It is inconceivable that two high school students could amass an arsenal of guns and bombs that would make a small country dangerous without help and the lack of supervision by parental authorities," he stated.
The statement did not list specific arguments for the proposed suit or whether it would be filed in state or federal court.
www.bouldernews.com /shooting/27acolu.html   (640 words)

  
 'Sense of invincibility' evaporates in area, nation's schools
Fake bomb threats in Boulder County schools in the week since the shooting massacre at Columbine High School have forced the evacuation of schools and frustrated administration, which has no choice but to react to the hoaxes.
Such scenes are occurring at schools across the nation in the wake of last week's deadly rampage at Columbine.
At Amherst-Pelham High School in Amherst, Mass., student Edward Thompson said it is the heightened security — more than fear of violence — that weighs heavily.
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 CNN - Bodies remain inside school as police check for bombs - April 21, 1999
Many of the bodies remained inside Columbine High School as police scoured the building for bombs and booby traps.
Davis said once the school was found to be secure, investigators would be allowed into the building and the bodies inside would be removed.
Many stunned students, parents and residents of Littleton, an affluent Denver suburb, attended a memorial service Tuesday night, and school officials were arranging crisis counseling for teens struggling to cope with the massacre, the most recent of several school shootings nationwide.
www.cnn.com /US/9904/21/school.shooting.03/index.html   (1335 words)

  
 Columbine High School News - The New York Times
The Columbine rampage was on record as the deadliest school shooting in United States history until a student killed 32 people, and himself, at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.
If Columbine has taught us anything, it is that we should avoid a legal stalemate over depositions by the parents of the gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre.
Schools around the country were on alert Monday after the second hostage event, and third homicide case, in less than a week in a school.
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 'Boy in the window' doing well
Ireland said remembering the victims of the April 20 rampage was more important than trying to figure who or what was to blame.
He rattled off a list of possible causes and culprits, those who have been blamed, ranging from schools to parents to guns, before concluding: ''There were contributing factors but the ultimate blame rests in the hands of two young men full of hate and out to kill.''
School district officials are considering whether to open the library where 10 of the victims died.
www.usatoday.com /news/index/colo/colo189.htm   (464 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Columbine High School massacre
The Columbine High School Massacre occurred on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Jefferson County near Littleton, Colorado, United States.
At 4:30 the school was declared safe, yet at 5:30 additional officers were called in as more explosives were found in the parking lot.
Some schools also began programs to expose and stop school bullying, which many charged had fueled anger and resentment within Harris and Klebold.(supposedlly for a short time the two offered themselves as "bullying bodyguards" to keep other kids from being teased however there actions were innapropriate and they soon were caught for carying fake guns.)
www.bambooweb.com /articles/c/o/Columbine_High_School_massacre.html   (1840 words)

  
 Music for Columbine High School
Below is a list compiled of many of the more notable references that have made it into the pages of the news.
Disclaimer: This list does not imply that any band or performer appearing on it had anything to do with the actual tragedy at Columbine High.
Columbine Tribute Album (Listen [Ref. songs dedicated to those who lost their lives as a result of the Columbine High School tragedy.
columbine.free2host.net /music.html   (629 words)

  
 Columbine High School murders Cassie Bernall Rachel Joy Scott Eric Harris Dylan Klebod gun control Littleton National ...
The much greater level of deterrence for multiple victim public shootings than for other crimes like murder is consistent with the notion that a higher probability of citizens being able to defend themselves should produce a greater level of deterrence.
The results are robust with respect to different specifications of the dependent variable, different specifications of the handgun law variable, and the inclusion of additional law variables (e.g., mandatory waiting periods, and enhanced penalties for using a gun in the commission of a crime).
In the wake of the April 20 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, the Colorado legislature tabled several gun control bills (SB 84 and HR 1305).
www.davekopel.com /CJ/Columbine.htm   (6825 words)

  
 Journalism.org - Resources We Offer - Education & Training - Read the Case Studies - Teaching Notes: Columbine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Her station also aired live pictures of about a dozen students running from the school and piling into police cars at 2:43 p.m., again when it wasn't publicly known the killers were dead.
Television journalists at Columbine had to be particularly careful in putting teens on live television since it is far more difficult to control what they say while cameras are running.
A school custodian hits the record button on the VCR in the cafeteria and calls the police resource officer assigned to the school, who is out for lunch.
www.journalism.org /resources/education/case_studies/columbine_notes.asp   (6599 words)

  
 School massacre planned in detail
Columbine High School students hug Wednesday in Clement Park, where students streamed to leave flowers and share their feelings about the shootings at the school in Littleton, Colo., where 15 people were killed by two gunmen Tuesday.
There were bombs inside the school as well as in cars in the parking lot, unsophisticated devices made from ingredients that could be purchased at hardware stores.
The names of the dead were not announced, and students, parents and school officials relied on rumor and witness accounts to find out who did not escape from the bloodbath.
www.jsonline.com /news/apr99/0422plan.asp   (1036 words)

  
 Boulder News: Tragedy at Columbine High School   (Site not responding. Last check: )
High school students dream of magical proms, of clutching a well-earned diploma, of moving on to the "real world" — college, a job, the military.
The area surrounding Columbine High School in southern Jefferson County, just east of the Rocky Mountain foothills, could be Anywhere, U.S.A. It's the Edge City that author Joel Garreau wrote about in the book of the same title — a virtually anonymous suburb, characterized by strip malls, chain eateries, cul de sacs and townhomes.
She and others want Columbine High School remembered as a symbol of life, not a place of tragedy.
www.broomfieldenterprise.com /shooting/425dreams.html   (2418 words)

  
 Salon News | Outsiders, even among the outsiders   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Six hours before they opened fire on classmates and teachers at Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were merrily bowling with their gym class at Belleview Lanes in nearby Englewood.
They were, it seems, outsiders even in the outsider group, and no one could explain why they went on their killing spree Tuesday, a rampage that at last count had killed 14 students and one teacher and left 16 victims hospitalized, 11 in critical or serious condition.
Students gathered outside the school to memorialize their fallen peers Wednesday afternoon were virtually unanimous in the clear distinctions they drew between the pair and the eight to 10 core Trench Coat Mafia members.
www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/04/22/columbine   (699 words)

  
 Four boys accused of plotting mayhem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
PORT HURON, Mich. — Four teen-agers plotted to buy and steal weapons for a massacre at their middle school that would top the death toll at Columbine High School, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The goal was to kill more people than in Columbine," said St. Clair County Assistant Prosecutor Michael Wendling, referring to last month's school shooting in which two gunmen killed 13 people and committed suicide.
The boys had picked a specific time for the massacre and had a hit list of intended victims among the faculty and students at the school, Wendling said.
www.bouldernews.com /shooting/19cshoo.html   (601 words)

  
 - Columbine: Ceremonies, Crosses And Blame
There is a private assembly planned for students and teachers to remember those killed and injured in the worst school shooting the nation's history, ABC reports.
It was one year ago when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stormed Columbine High School and gunned down their classmates.
Columbine's attendance has dropped steadily this week, and 624 students were absent Wednesday -- about a third of the school, district spokeswoman Marilyn Saltzman said.
html.wesh.com /sh/news/stories/nat-news-20000420-145328.html   (551 words)

  
 Columbine Final Report: An 'Amateur Warren Commission Report'
She also said that so many Columbine students know of other assailants being involved that she sees no way the truth about this could be covered up.
Columbine High School art teacher Patti Nielson' wounded in the school attack, made unwitting statements that cast grave doubts on the official two- gunmen theory.
Columbine's purpose was to engender a massive outpouring of propaganda for and in behalf of gun control.
www.rense.com /general/colrp.htm   (2275 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Police Criticized for Littleton Probe
The concession by authorities contributed to an atmosphere in which the conduct of the investigation is coming under increased scrutiny as police fend off criticism of their tactical response to one of the worst acts of school violence in American history.
Police have yet to receive final autopsy reports on the 15 dead, leaving open the question of whether all the murder victims were killed by the two assailants or whether any may have been struck by police fire.
After finishing what they said was a complete sweep of the school, for example, officials the next day discovered another large propane bomb, and later acknowledged they had miscounted the number of bombs found altogether.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/juvmurders/stories/denver043099.htm   (1204 words)

  
 Columbine memorial honours massacre victims
The placid, stone-walled oval nestled in Clement Park is next to the school in Littleton, Colo., where two student gunmen killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves on April 20, 1999.
He was shot twice in the head and hung out of a library window while the tragedy unfolded, and has since had to relearn how to speak, walk and read.
Messages from the 13 victims' immediate families are inscribed in the inner wall.
www.cbc.ca /world/story/2007/09/21/columbine-memorial.html   (783 words)

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