Texting fuels Arkansas school panic
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Rumors spread by cell phone text-messaging flew through a school after a student's suicide, rumors that other kids planned to kill themselves, that students planned to bring weapons to school, that there was going to be "a shoot 'em up." Panicked parents rushed to take their children home.
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There are fears that teenagers in Wales are facing an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases.
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The Cornell University junior was in his dorm between classes when the text message came in from a friend. Check out JuicyCampus.com, it said.
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A teacher in Murray, Ky., has been arrested on drug charges after allegedly organizing a drug sale through a series of text messages.
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A 17-year-old was arraigned Friday after authorities received a tip that he was making threats in an online chat room against his high school, fellow students and an officer assigned to the building.
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It has been 48 hours since college student Andrew Meyer was stunned with a Taser during a forum with Sen. John Kerry, and some students are still in shock over what happened.
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Atlanta Falcons Owner Arthur Blank said on Wednesday he felt betrayed by his head coach's shock decision to resign mid-season to take a job coaching the University of Arkansas.
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School officials in Harford County, Maryland, are using a robo-dialing service that automatically calls students' homes and plays a prerecorded message if a snowstorm closes schools. By the Associated Press.
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By ANGELA DOWDEN  THE days when bullying was restricted to the playground or the journey home from school are long gone.   As bullies become more technically advanced, they are increasingly using emails and text messages to taunt their victims.
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School officials around the country have been scrambling this week after several cases of staph infection, some of which have led to the death of students.
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Beginning in August 2007, the N.C.A.A. banned Division I colleges from using text messaging to recruit athletes.  But on Saturday, the issue will be revisited once again.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas - Police in this Austin suburb were stumped for hours by the 49 emergency calls that kept coming in from an unregistered cell phone. The caller would say nothing before hanging up, sometimes after a brief giggle.
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SCOVILLE, Idaho -- When a blackout seemed imminent after a major storm, poor cellphone coverage nearly left Idaho's governor in the dark about the news. On another occasion, the state's top military official missed a key national security warning, also because of his cellphone.
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Columbine High School, the site of the nation's deadliest school shooting eight years ago, was evacuated Thursday after a bomb threat was called in, authorities said. Jefferson County Sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said students were taken to a nearby park while bomb squads and dogs searched the school.
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Excessive text messaging may be bad for you, or at least for your fingers.
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School officials around the country have been scrambling this week after several cases of staph infection some of which have led to the death of students.
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It didn't seem like tornado weather. The rain was sparse, and there was no thunder. But in the morning, the high  school students in Enterprise, Ala., were herded into the interior hallways to brace for the possibility. Kids joked and chatted.  They had been through this drill before.