Attorney general, education secretary to visit Chicago to discuss honors student beatingOctober 1st, 2009 Obama officials to discuss Chicago student beatingWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Chicago next week to discuss the recent beating death of a 16-year-old honors student. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says Holder and Duncan will meet Wednesday with school officials, students and residents and talk about school violence.
3 teens charged in fatal beating of 16-year-old Chicago student; vigil planned at high schoolSeptember 30th, 2009 Teens charged in beating death of Chicago studentCHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged three teenagers with first-degree murder in the beating death of a Chicago student who was walking home from school. Family members believe the victim, 16-year-old Derrion Albert, was fatally beaten Thursday for refusing to join a gang.
4th teen charged in fatal Chicago beating heads to court; family says victim was 'great kid'September 30th, 2009 Family says Chicago beating victim was 'good kid'CHICAGO — A fourth teenager is due in court after being charged in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old Chicago honors student, who's described by family as a "great kid" who loved school. Eighteen-year-old Eugene Bailey is one of four people charged with first-degree murder in Derrion Albert's death.
Conn. grand jury indicts man on charges he sexually abused boys at Haiti schoolSeptember 17th, 2009 Man indicted in Conn. with abuse at Haiti schoolHARTFORD, Conn.
Errant boys, not rumours, caused school mishap, says victimSeptember 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A victim of the stampede in a Delhi school that left five girl students dead says that errant boys and not rumours led to the mishap Thursday, even as the government dismissed the allegation. Reshma, a class 8 student of the Government Senior Secondary School (Class 6-12) in Khajoori Khas in northeast Delhi had gone to the school in the morning to give her exams when the tragedy happened.
Drunken driver gets prison for killing 2 after being ordered deported, charged in NYC beatingSeptember 9th, 2009 Immigrant gets prison for killing 2 in NYC crashNEW YORK — A drunken driver who slammed into a New York City livery cab and killed two people has been sentenced to 3½ to 10½ years in prison. The wreck came after he was ordered deported and charged in a deadly beating.
6 Mass. boys, ages 11 to 14, charged with severely beating Guatemalan immigrant as he sleptSeptember 8th, 2009 6 Mass. boys accused of beating sleeping immigrantBOSTON — Six boys were charged with severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant with bricks, bottles and rocks as he slept near railroad tracks, an attack that civil rights groups decried Tuesday as "hateful."
Derrek Shulman, New England regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the July beating of Damian Merida was an example of how immigrants are singled out for attacks. Police say six boys, ages 11 to 14, beat the 30-year-old Merida in July in Lynn, a city 10 miles northeast of Boston.
Supreme Court orders bail for Mass. man convicted of beating school teacher with baseball batAugust 27th, 2009 Supreme Court orders bail for Mass. man in beatingWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the state of Massachusetts to grant bail to a man convicted of beating an elementary school teacher with a baseball bat.
2 NY teens arrested for beating up Ecuadorean immigrants in course of racial slurAugust 26th, 2009 ATCHOGUE, N.Y. — Two teenagers have been arrested on a hate crime charge in the racially charged beating of an Ecuadorean immigrant on New York's Long Island.
Mass. woman charged as accessory to assault of 7-year-old who died after Father's Day beatingJuly 22nd, 2009 Mass. woman charged in boy's Father's Day beatingWORCESTER, Mass. — The girlfriend of a man accused of fatally beating his 7-year-old son to death on Father's Day has been indicted on new charges.
Mass. man arraigned on a murder charge in the fatal beating of 7-year-old son on Father's DayJune 30th, 2009 Mass. man arraigned in Father's Day beating deathWORCESTER, Mass. — Bail has been revoked for a Massachusetts man now charged with murder in the fatal beating of his 7-year-old son on Father's Day.
7-year-old boy dies a week after alleged beating by dad on Father's Day in Mass.June 28th, 2009 Boy dies after alleged Father's Day beatingWORCESTER, Mass. — A 7-year-old boy who authorities say was severely beaten by his dad on Father's Day has died in Massachusetts.
Correction: Immigrant Killing-Students storyJune 18th, 2009 Correction: Immigrant Killing-Students storyPOTTSVILLE, Pa. — In a June 17 story about the sentencing of two Shenandoah teenagers convicted of simple assault in the beating death of an illegal Mexican immigrant, The Associated Press erroneously identified the defendant who slumped at the defense table after being sentenced.
Names of 61 long-dead orphans and troubled boys added to marker at Mich. cemeteryJune 9th, 2009 Mich. cemetery marker now lists 61 long-dead boysLANSING, Mich. — The names of 61 boys who died decades ago at a Michigan school for orphans and troubled youth have been engraved on a cemetery monument.
Pa. teen says he yelled ethnic slurs at illegal Mexican immigrant who died in beatingApril 28th, 2009 Pa. teen says he yelled slurs at Mexican immigrantPOTTSVILLE, Pa. — An eastern Pennsylvania teenager has admitted to instigating a brawl with an illegal Mexican immigrant who died in the fight with the teen's friends.
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