Guns at school

On Wednesday, February 20th, A student thought she saw an unidentified man with a gun at her high school in Kentucky. The school was locked down for three hours while authorities searched the entire school, but they didn't find anyone.

Imagine the fear the students felt waiting to learn that their school had been the victim of a Columbine- or Virginia Tech-like shooting and the relief upon learning it was a false alarm.

The week before, in Brockton, MA, a 19-year-old was sentences to prison for plotting an attack similar to Columbine. When three of the students who had been involved changed their minds, they turned the fourth in to the authorities. The police uncovered hit lists, maps of the school, etc. The mastermind was sentenced to 9-months.

Middle School Teacher in SC

"A former middle school teacher was sent to prison for six years Tuesday for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys," says the Associated Press.

A forensic psychiatrist insists that Allenna Ward is not a pedophile. She is "a childlike victim suffering from personality discorders and a repressed childhood." Evidently this "free-spirited" minister's daughter was so sheltered by her family that she never was able to break away from their constraints.

Her sentence of 15 years in prison was suspended to six years for each lewd act. However, she can serve her sentences at the same time.