BRAYMER, MO. — A Missouri farmer who served time in federal prison for a cattle fraud scheme has been charged with murdering two Wisconsin brothers whom authorities say he owed $250,000 for cattle. Garland Joseph “Joey” Nelson, 25, of Braymer, is charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, tampering with physical…
Isiah Baptiste says he threw his first punch at another student when he was in Grade 7. He says it started on the basketball court when a boy on the other team got mad over a foul. “He whipped the ball at me. And like, ‘I’m not gonna get punked off…
A retired Burlington Fire Protection District firefighter/paramedic who also worked as a bus aide for Burlington Central School District 301 has been charged with hitting a special needs student in the face and knocking out two of his teeth, Kane County authorities announced Thursday. Jean M. Micklevitz, 63, of the…
This story is part of School Violence, a CBC News series examining the impact of peer-on-peer violence on students and parents. It was a typical high school crush on an older boy. She was new to school, in Grade 9. He was in Grade 12. So when they started flirting…
During Ben Nguyen’s second year teaching, he met a student with a 2.5 grade-point average who liked technology but struggled in math and didn’t see a viable post-graduation career pathway. Nguyen said the young man told him he simply wanted to find “some job” and figure out how to make…
A University of California, Santa Cruz student was indicted on federal charges Tuesday, accused of developing an app to sell meth, cocaine and other illegal drugs.Collin Howard, 18, was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Jose, California, on drug distribution and possession charges for allegedly creating the Banana…
BRAYMER, Mo. — A Missouri farmer who served time in federal prison for a cattle fraud scheme has been charged with murdering two Wisconsin brothers whom authorities say he owed $250,000 for cattle. Garland Joseph “Joey” Nelson, 25, of Braymer, is charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, tampering…
Ludlow High School has welcomed back to campus Timofey Gavrilov from the class of 2014. Mr. Gav, as he likes to be called, is a newly hired science teacher who is teaching ninth, tenth, and eleventh grade biology and chemistry. “In the back of my head I had always hoped…
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced 16 people to death after they were found guilty of burning student Nusrat Jahan Rafi alive. The 19-year-old was set upon by teachers and classmates at her school in Feni, outside the capital Dhaka, last April, after accusing her school principal of sexual assault. Nusrat…
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It’s true that for many Minnesotans, they can remember where they were when Jacob Wetterling was abducted 30 years ago. “It’s a dreary kind of gross day out there and that’s kind of the feeling of this day,” Alison Feigh, director of the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center…