Violence

PASADENA, Calif. -- Getting cast to play the lead role in the Starz series "Spartacus: Vengeance" has been bittersweet for Aussie actor Liam McIntrye.

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's folk music queen emerged on Thursday from house arrest to face new charges in Belgrade of violent behavior.

CLEARFIELD -- South Clearfield Elementary School administrators want to reassure parents that their children are in a safe learning environment.

Principal Daren Allred and Administrative Intern Mike Page spoke Tuesday about what happened to Breanna Jollerson on Nov. 8 and their actions following the attack.

"First of all, we feel bad whenever a student is injured or hurt," Allred said. "We take it personally to keep this school safe so it will be a good learning environment for our students."

SEATTLE -- Travis Pickett was coming out of the locker room with a couple of his football buddies before school on Monday morning when he heard screaming.

As at any school, the hallways at Snohomish High School are loud, so the 17-year-old senior didn't think much of it at first. But then he saw the screaming girl coming out of the restroom, blood pouring out of her arm and a look of shock on her face.

When he went into the bathroom, he saw one girl lying on the floor and another standing still near a stall. The girl on the ground was holding her neck, he said. The other girl, the suspect, "looked nervous, but she wasn't going anywhere. She was standing there, like, 'Yeah, I did that."'

QUETTA, Pakistan — Suspected Sunni extremists shot to death 13 Shiite Muslims execution-style after ordering them off a bus and lining them up Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan, ramping up a campaign of sectarian violence that has exposed Islamabad’s inability to protect minorities.

ROY -- Police are investigating spray-painted graffiti at Roy Junior High School as a potential hate crime, Police Chief Greg Whinham said Tuesday.

Somebody sneaked onto the grounds of the school, at 5400 S. 2100 West, early Tuesday and painted messages on the building and other items.

"The nature of the graffiti is such that it qualifies as hate speech, and we are investigating the possibility of charging the person with a hate crime," Whinham said. "Some of the messages alluded to doing harm to Christians."

Violent crime would decline if cities limited the number of liquor stores and banned the sale of single-serving containers of beer and other alcoholic beverages, researchers at the University of California, Riverside said.