Mass Hysteria Strikes Small Rural U.S. High School
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Ten healthy female students at a rural, co-ed North Carolina high school had repeated bouts of seizures, swooning and hyperventilation over a four-month period in 2002 -- an outbreak that experts are calling an example of mass hysteria.
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Extensive damage is caused in a mid Wales village after it was hit by what is being described as a small tornado.
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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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Families shell out a small fortune to send their kids back to school.
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Headteachers and governors are demanding government action on a ministerial pledge to protect rural schools. Meanwhile, the reality is that hundreds around the country face closure
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The impact of changing demographics and farming technology in the northwestern Minnesota towns of Stephen and Argyle is apparent in the student body and on the football field.
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SASEBO, Japan -- On a cloudless afternoon in this sleepy port city, an 11-year-old girl drenched in blood and clutching a box cutter walked into the lunchroom at her elementary school. Teachers and students froze, assuming the sixth-grader known for her lighthearted nature had gravely hurt herself -- but she quickly dispelled that impression, witnesses said, by uttering a few ...
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Two schools were evacuated Wednesday after a gunman claiming to have a bomb opened fire and took hostages at a high school near Bailey, Colorado, officials said. Several shots were fired at the school, and the gunman is inside, said a Jefferson County Sheriff's spokeswoman.
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A technology known as an audience response system is spreading to public and private schools across the country.
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Appalachian State's monumental upset of No. 5 Michigan on Saturday sent a remote small town in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina into a frenzy of the kind that Boone, population 13,000, had never seen before.
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A junior/senior high school was evacuated Wednesday morning after three students were stabbed, emergency and hospital officials said.
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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At an unusual elementary school outside Atlanta, more than half the 380 students are refugees from some 40 countries, forming an eclectic community.
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JENA, Louisiana  - Thousands of people from across the United States descended on a small town in central Louisiana on Thursday to protest what they say is injustice against six black teenagers charged over a high school fight.
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After deadly twisters tore through the South, help came quickly for rural Macon County, Tenn. residents.
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Perhaps nowhere does high school basketball zealotry surpass the rural fervor of the timber and railroad towns of Sabine Parish, where seven boys and five girls teams have won a state championship.
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When there's a car crash or a heart attack near this rural town, the emergency medical technicians who rush to help are familiar faces from the high school, the county clerk's office and the coal mine.