Oregon teacher fights to take gun to class
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PORTLAND, Oregon  - An Oregon high school teacher on Tuesday sued for her right to bring a gun into the classroom for personal protection, clashing with anti-gun advocates fighting for years to rid U.S. schools of weapons.
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LAMPASAS, Texas - A local group is holding a school benefit raffle featuring a deer rifle, in hopes of raising enough money to fence in a portion of a school in this central Texas town.
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Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A teacher heading to her first day at school this week was charged with drunken driving, but later returned to her class...
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By MATTHEW DALY  WASHINGTON - An Oregon senator is threatening to filibuster a must-pass spending bill if Congress does not extend payments to rural counties hurt by cutbacks in federal logging.
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Vardell Taylor makes a good point quite humorously ("Concealed guns on campus," Readers' Forum, Sept. 19). However, a gun pulled by a civilian in a situation in which a criminal also possesses one does not help. This is not Hollywood, where any Joe Shmoe can whip out a pistol and save the day.
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MEXICO, Ind. - When a masked man pointed a gun at an auto repair shop clerk threatening to kill her, she thought she recognized his voice. Police said that was likely because the man holding the handgun was the 16-year-old clerk's brother.
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A man charged into a school where his estranged wife was a teacher Thursday morning, firing a gun before stabbing her as her fifth-grade class watched, police said. He later was found dead in his home after apparently shooting himself during a standoff with police.
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A significant drop in the number of hunters in West Virginia has left a hole in the state's budget, and one lawmaker thinks he has a solution: allow children to receive hunter training in school.
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New Jersey is looking to become the second state to outlaw a powerful gun that critics say can be used by terrorists to shoot down an airliner
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The Oregon mother of two watched with despair as budget cuts forced schools around the state to lay off teachers and close early. She&#39;s an active volunteer who helped raise $17,000 in private money to landscape a ...
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A second-grader's drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun earned him a one-day school suspension.
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The District today formally asked the Supreme Court to uphold the local ban on private ownership of handguns, saying the appeals court decision that overturned the law "drastically departs from the mainstream of American jurisprudence."
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A U.C.L.A. graduate student's performance art project that involved the use of a gun has prompted two resignations and a debate on the limits of expression at the university.
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At Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, students can't just randomly stroll out to their cars to fetch a textbook or some other forgotten item. They need a pass because authorities worry about what might be stashed in the parking lot.
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Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them. The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.
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The father of one of the Virginia Tech shooting victims asked state lawmakers Monday to pass better gun laws and close the legal loopholes that allowed a student gunman to skirt Virginia's mental health system.