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Several teachers and employees at Richneck Elementary School said they voiced concerns about a boy having a gun in school before the 6-year-old shot his first grade teacher with a 9mm handgun one ...

Observed to own an expansive vocabulary, the 13-year-old’s “greatest influence” is his professor Dad, Dr. Rommel Sergio: “He ...

I was 12 years old on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. I had a crush on Linda, the girl in my 7th ...

“Just Kids” is a memoir of Smith’s early years in New York and her relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. They ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

A National Literacy Trust report has found that while fewer children than ever enjoy reading physical books, nearly half use ...

A FORMER prison officer has been unmasked as potentially Britain’s most prolific sex offender after raping and abusing ...

Yes, our school bans use of phones in class, but no teacher that I know of has ever successfully taught kids for more than ...

Before I sat down to watch the documentary about him, I had only heard the name Sato Tadao once. It was in an article by ...