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Billy Schuerman/Newport News Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The teacher shot in class by her 6-year-old student in Newport News, Virginia, claims the shooter had a history of violent behavior at school and accused the school’s assistant principal of failure to act despite being told repeatedly that the student […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.) — A 29-year-old New Jersey woman fraudulently posed as a high school student for several days after allegedly filing false documents, school officials and police said. The incident was announced during a New Brunswick School Board meeting Tuesday night. The woman attended New Brunswick High School for four days […]

Courtesy of Janice Yang (NEW YORK) — A 12-year-old boy from Massachusetts caught a great white shark while on a fishing charter in Florida. Campbell Keenan spent 45 minutes fighting to reel in the fish before it was close enough for him to see what kind it was. “We realized it was a shark when […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif.) — A sheriff’s deputy in Riverside County, California, has been gunned down in the line of duty, leaving behind his pregnant wife, just weeks after another deputy in his department was killed. Deputy Darnell Calhoun, 30, was shot Friday afternoon while responding to a domestic violence and child custody […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (CYRIL, Okla.) — Oklahoma police have arrested the caretaker of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing after a postal carrier found her sister wandering alone outside on Tuesday, authorities said. Local authorities began searching for Athena Brownfield Tuesday afternoon, when the postal worker discovered her 5-year-old sister near the children’s home […]

kali9/iStock (BENA, Minn.) — A 3-year-old girl was fatally shot by a 5-year-old boy in a home in Bena, Minnesota, early Friday, officials said. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an accidental shooting around 3:50 a.m. When deputies responded they learned the little girl “had been shot by accidental gunfire” by the […]

arrowsmith2/ iStock (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Lila Hartley, from Jacksonville, Florida, took matters into her own hands when she heard Duval County Public Schools wouldn’t require masks for the upcoming school year: She wrote a letter to the school board and superintendent pushing for a mask mandate. “I would like to encourage the requirement of masks […]