Rifle Replica Leads to School Lockdown
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WEST POINT, Utah - A bus driver called police when he saw a student carrying what turned out to be a replica of a Civil War-era rifle that had been displayed in class all year. The call led to a 47-minute lockdown at West Point Junior High School and two elementary schools.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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Fifteen children have been allowed to leave a school at the centre of a hostage crisis in Russia, according to media reports. Armed men and women have occupied the school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers this week to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons. A Utah boy was suspended for giving his cousin a cold pill prescribed to both students. In Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies.
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Key events in gunmen's seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia:
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A suburban Philadelphia high school was evacuated and locked down Tuesday morning after two intruders were found inside the building.
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Police confirm replica pistols and rifles were removed from a primary school in Easterhouse, Glasgow.
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Classmates of a 14-year-old girl shot to death in Nottingham attend a special assembly at her school.
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Six armed people were holed up Wednesday at a high school in northeastern Arizona, authorities said.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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A tip led police to six handguns in a high school locker and the arrest of three students early Tuesday, said police who were investigating why the weapons were brought into the building.
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DOVER, Delaware  - Two students were shot and wounded early on Friday at Delaware State University, prompting a swift campus lockdown as police hunted for the gunman.
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A woman was shot in the head at a Toronto-area high school on Friday and police locked down the school with its students and teachers inside as they searched for the gunman.
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A 16-year-old student died after a gunman walked into a Bailey, Colorado, high school and took hostages in a classroom. The shooter fatally shot the female student and turned the gun on himself as a SWAT team stormed inside, authorities said.
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Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said. The region borders with warring Chechnya.
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school three days ago are holding at least 1,000 students, teachers and parents hostage inside the building, far more than previously thought, a released hostage and a regional official said.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by raiders who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...