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Layton's Vae View Elementary celebrates big milestone

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 9:43am

LAYTON — Vae View Elementary School — known as "the round school" because of its circular design, with the gym at the center and classrooms around the circumference — is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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Prosecutor throws book at mom in elementary school shooting case

Jennifer Sullivan The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 2:01pm

By filing assault charges against the two adults he claims ultimately were responsible for last month's shooting at a Bremerton, Wash. elementary school, the county prosecutor acknowledges his office is making an unprecedented legal move in Washington state.

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Patrick Cochran, the uncle and legal guardian of the 9-year-old boy who brought a gun to a Bremerton elementary school which injured a classmate when it discharged, reacts to the proceedings in a Kitsap Juvenile Court Tuesday afternoon, March 6, 2012 in Port Orchard, Wash. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mark Harrison)

Uncle of boy who brought gun to school facing intense scrutiny

Christine Clarridge The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 10:52am

BREMERTON, Wash. -- Patrick Cochran said he was simply trying to do right by his family and fulfill his dying mother's request when he took in his brother's three children.

But over the past two weeks -- since a handgun his 9-year-old nephew brought to his Bremerton elementary school discharged and seriously injured a classmate -- he's been subjected to scrutiny he never could have imagined.

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Mother of 8-year-old charged in elementary school shooting

Josh Farley The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 4:01pm

BREMERTON, Wash. -- The mother of a 9-year-old son, and her boyfriend, are facing criminal charges in connection with her child's allegedly accidental shooting of an elementary school classmate.

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A photo of Joanna Ramos, 10,with a note, is left at a memorial outside Willard Elementary school in Long Beach, Calif. on Monday Feb. 27, 2012. Ramos, who died after a fight with an 11-year-old in an alley near their elementary school underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain before her death, her sister said Monday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Girl fight ends in death of 10-year-old

Gillian Flaccus The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 12:45pm

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Cecilia Villanueva sat helplessly in the backseat and watched her 10-year-old daughter turn blue as her husband raced them to the hospital in a panic.

Earlier, the fifth-grader, Joanna Ramos, had come home from school vomiting and complaining of a headache after a fight with another girl.

Before she passed out on the family couch, she told her mother an 11-year-old girl had punched her in the head.

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The 9-year-old boy accused of accidentally shooting a classmate at a Bremerton, Wash. elementary school is led away after his juvenile detention hearing in Kitsap County, Wash. Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Authorities say the boy brought a handgun to school Wednesday and the weapon discharged from inside his backpack, critically wounding 8-year-old Amina Kocer-Bowman. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Ken Lambert, Pool)

Boy, 9, charged in school shooting, has had tumultuous life

Maureen O'Hagen The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 11:31am

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- The pale 9-year-old walked into the Kitsap County Juvenile Court on Thursday, looking dazed in his orange jumpsuit. There was a television camera in one corner; reporters filled nearly half the seats.

Police say that on Wednesday, he took a loaded gun to a Bremerton elementary school, and that it went off in his backpack just before the final bell rang. The routine of third grade -- school, homework, play -- had changed in a split second.

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A third-grade student from Armin Jahr elementary school in Bremerton, Wash. is loaded into an ambulance after being shot by a fellow student on Wednesday February 22, 2012 at the school. She was transferred to the ambulance from a helicopter at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after being shot in the stomach. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)

Third-grader in critical condition after school shooting

Christine Clarridge, Lark Turner The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:49am

BREMERTON, Wash. -- A third-grade student was in critical condition at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center after being shot in the abdomen Wednesday at a Bremerton elementary school.

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Davis High School basketball players Nate Pollard (right) and Zac Fuller high-five first-graders Tuesday at Windridge Elementary School in Kaysville. The team read books then them to the first-grade classrooms.

Tall tale tellers: Davis High basketball team takes reading talents to elementary school

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:52am

KAYSVILLE -- Members of the Davis High School boys basketball team made the chairs in teacher Shelley Street's first-grade classroom look like dollhouse furniture.