A pattern in rural school shootings: girls as targets
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Monday's deadly shooting in Nickel Mines, Pa., was the fourth such incident in five weeks.
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A gunman opened fire at an Amish school in rural Pennsylvania on Monday, shooting and killing three girls and wounding seven others before killing himself, police said.
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US police investigate why a gunman killed four girls and injured eight at an Amish school in Pennsylvania.
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Small-town residents are as likely  to die of gunshot wounds as people in big U.S. cities, but the  rural residents are killing themselves while urban dwellers are  being murdered, researchers reported on Monday.
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CLEVELAND -- When her father went off to war, 13-year-old Brittney Wilkinson felt angry. She cried at unexpected times and battled her older sister, Ashley. At school, she seemed withdrawn. When her mother saw an offer that would pay for art classes for both girls, she jumped at it.
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Several people including an unknown number of students were shot and killed by a gunman who attacked an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday and was then either captured or killed, police said.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 4 -- After a spate of bloody schoolhouse attacks in the past month, school districts around the country are reviewing their emergency plans. Some are looking for ways to tighten security even as they acknowledge the limits on their ability to stop a determined killer.
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MILLWOOD, Va. -- Exactly 50 years ago, a Girl Scout living on a farm near this Clarke County town 60 miles from Washington penned a letter to the White House. It was a time of rising racial tension in Virginia and the country. Drew Gilpin, without telling her parents, decided to seek help from the...
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 -- A teacher for more than three decades and an advocate for women's rights, Safia Ama Jan ran an underground school for girls during Taliban rule. On Monday, two men on a motorbike gunned her down as she left for work -- identifying their target despite her full...
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A gunman attacked an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday, shooting and killing a number of people including an unknown number of students before he was captured or killed, police said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early yesterday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed.
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SHEIKHABAD, Afghanistan -- In a small, sunlit parlor last week, 20 little girls seated on rush mats sketched a flower drawn on the blackboard. In a darker interior room, 15 slightly older girls memorized passages from the Koran, reciting aloud. Upstairs was a class of teenage girls, hidden from public view.
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Are girls getting more violent, or is their behavior being reported in new ways?
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Hoping to prevent the loss of children, a few schools have begun monitoring student movements using technology similar to that used to track livestock and retail shipments.
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By Sarah Reynolds, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Sep. 6--A crew of Rural/Metro Fire Department firefighters were pelted with shots from a group of dove hunters Friday morning, according to Rural/Metro personnel.
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NEW YORK  - High school girls who have recently experienced dating violence and boys who have a history of being sexually assaulted are at increased risk of attempting suicide, a new study of New York City public school students shows.
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CAMAS, Wash. - Police and school officials in Camas are using a computer game to teach students about Internet predators. Beginning this month, all sixth graders in the school district will spend a day using