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School shootings, violence actually on decline in U.S.

Kevin Fagan, Will Kane San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 3:31pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seven shot dead at an Oakland college this week. A private school headmistress gunned down last month in Florida by a teacher she fired, who then kills himself. Three Ohio teens killed by another high school student in February.

Judging by the media attention lavished on the recent shooting rampage that left seven dead in Oakland, Calif., and other attacks over the past several years, it would seem America is embroiled in an ever-increasing chaos of school shootings. But statistics show it is not.

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Sheriff tries to quell panic in S. Weber over ‘suspicious vehicle’

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 6:07pm

SOUTH WEBER — The Davis County Sheriff’s Office is attempting quell near widespread panic from rumors that a man in a suspicious vehicle is stalking children in South Weber.

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Classes resume at Ohio high school after shooting

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 8:06am

CHARDON, Ohio -- Students returned to the Ohio high school where a shooting earlier this week killed three teens and wounded two others.

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Student hurt in another school shooting

Contributor The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 7:17am

WILLCOX, Ariz. -- Authorities are working to determine what motivated a man to allegedly fire a rifle indiscriminately at a southeastern Arizona high school, injuring 17-year-old boy who was watching a baseball game.

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Teen charged as juvenile in Ohio school shooting

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 5:10pm

CHARDON, Ohio -- A teenager was charged Thursday with killing three students in a school shooting, the first step in proceedings that could see him charged as an adult and facing the possibility of life without parole if convicted.

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Students and parents march to the high school in Chardon, Ohio, Thursday, March 1, 2012 to honor the three students who were killed in a shooting there Monday, Feb. 27. The school re-opened to parents and students Thursday and classes resume Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Hundreds of students march back to Ohio school

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 11:41am

CHARDON, Ohio -- The deadline to file charges in a fatal Ohio high school shooting loomed as students still reeling from the slaying of three teenagers marched by the hundreds to their reopened school Thursday.

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Alissa Scully, right, leans on the shoulder of Tabitha Johnson, center, as they view a memorial with Deborah McCurry in Chardon, Ohio Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. The Geauga County town 30 miles east of Cleveland is mourning the death of three students and the wounding of two others in a shooting at the high school Monday morning. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Neighbors say school shooting suspect was normal kid

Kevin Begos, Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 2:42pm

CHARDON, Ohio -- The teenage suspect in a deadly shooting rampage at an Ohio high school was a normal boy who excelled in school and played outside often with his sister, building snow hills and skateboarding, a family friend said Wednesday.

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Teen suspect in school shootings emotionally opaque

Jen Steer, Joe Pagonakis, Ron Regan Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 6:09pm

CHARDON, Ohio -- Some students called the Chardon High School shooting suspect caring, calm and polite, even in the moments just before shots were fired during a rampage Monday that has now claimed three young lives.

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T.J. Lane, a suspect in Monday's shooting of five students at Chardon High School is taken into juvenile court by Geauga County deputies in Chardon, Ohio Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Three of the five students wounded in the attacks have since died. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Prosecutors say school shooting suspect fired at random

Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 6:08pm

Ohio school shooting suspect T.J. Lane randomly chose the targets of his shooting rampage at a suburban high school, fired 10 shots from a handgun and was also armed with a knife, a prosecutor said Tuesday during a court hearing.

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Community members attend a during a prayer service for victims of a school shooting at Chardon Assembly of God in Chardon, Ohio Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. A gunman opened fire inside the Chardon High School's cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, killing one student and wounding four others. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Death toll rises to 3 in school shooting

Thomas J. Sheeran The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 12:20pm

CHARDON, Ohio — The death toll rose to three Tuesday in the shooting rampage in an Ohio high school cafeteria as schoolmates and townspeople grappled with the tragedy and wondered what could have set the teenage gunman off.

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A distraught Ava Polaski, a sophomore, leaves school grounds with her mother Misty Polaski following a shooting in Chardon, Ohio on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. A teenager described as a bullied outcast at Chardon High School opened fire in the cafeteria Monday morning, killing one student and wounding four others before being caught a short distance away, authorities said. The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested near his car a half-mile away, the FBI said. He was not immediately charged. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Thomas Ondrey)

February has brought spate of school shootings

Lisa Hoffman Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 6:02pm

This month alone, at least four shootings of students have occurred in schools across the country, including Monday’s deadly attack outside Cleveland, Ohio.

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Police: 2 Roy High students planned to bomb school assembly

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 6:10pm

ROY — A plot by two Roy High School students to kill fellow classmates in what court documents described as a Columbine-style massacre was in its final planning stages, Police Chief Greg Whinham said Thursday.

When asked by reporters during a news conference to gauge on a scale of one to 10 the imminent threat of the bomb plot, Whinham quickly responded.