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create some scoring opportunities. The Crimson drew first blood when sophomore midfielder Katie Shaughnessy converted an Ashley Harmeling pass in the eighth minute for a 1-0 lead...
Elizabeth Catherine Bush was no Charles Andrew Williams. She didn't shoplift booze or boast of pulling a Columbine. Bush was a quiet eighth-grader who attended Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa., a cozy Roman Catholic school that holds spaghetti suppers and sock hops. A stickler for safety, Bush lectured the school bus driver for speeding through railroad crossings. She tacked posters of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. to her bedroom walls and affixed pictures of the Columbine victims to the bulletin board over her desk. Her parents say she wanted to be a human-rights...
FOILED MAY 19, 1999 Anaheim, Calif. When police searched the homes of two eighth-graders at South Junior High, they found two bombs, bombmaking materials, a military-surplus rifle, a Ruger Blackhawk .45-cal. handgun, 1,500 rounds of ammunition and Nazi paraphernalia. They were tipped off by a student who heard that the boys, whose names were not released, were threatening to blow up the school...
FOILED FEB. 11, 2001 Palm Harbor, Fla. Scott McClain, a 14-year-old eighth-grader, reportedly wrote a detailed e-mail to at least one friend describing his plans to make a bomb and possibly target a specific teacher at Palm Harbor Middle School. The friend's mother alerted sheriff's deputies, who said they found a partly assembled bomb in McClain's bedroom that would have had a "kill radius...
...Nine Is Fine Since the NCAA Tournament field was extended to 64 in 1985, No. 9 seeds have a 35-29 advantage over their eighth-seeded, first-round opponents. Last year, however, the eights posted a 4-0 record...