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Student Threatened To 'Shoot Up' High School In Capital Region, Police Say
A juvenile is facing charges after allegedly threatening to carry out a mass shooting at a high school in the region. The Schenectady City School District contacted police shortly before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, to report that a threat had been made against the high school. According to Schenectady Police, district officials were alerted by the software Gaggle, which monitors students’ school-issued devices for harmful content, about a threatening email it had uncovered. In the email, the juvenile suspect threatened to “shoot up the school,” police said. Community engagement officers f…
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18-Year-Old Fatally Shot In Westchester Was High School Student On Spring Break
New update - Murder Of Teen In Westchester: 33-Year-Old Suspect Apprehended An 18-year-old who was fatally shot in Westchester was a high school student who had been on spring break, school officials said. Tomani Turner, age 18, died on Thursday night, April 6 after he was shot twice in the chest in Mount Vernon on Garden Avenue just south of East 4th Street just after 12:30 p.m. earlier in the day, according to city officials. Earlier Report - ID Released For 18-Year-Old Fatally Shot In Mount Vernon; Suspect On Loose Turner was a student at Mount Vernon High School …
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Violent Threat At School In Hudson Valley Leads To Student's Arrest
Updated story: Person Accused Of Making Threat Against Current Student At High School In Hudson Valley Authorities are keeping close watch over a middle school in the Hudson Valley after a reported threat of violence that led to an arrest of a juvenile student. The threat was made in Putnam County at the George Fischer Middle School in Carmel around midnight on Thursday, March 23, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. The incident caused the school to delay its opening by two hours and also prompted an investigation conducted by the Sheriff's Office. One j…
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School District In Hudson Valley On Heightened Alert After Unspecified Threat
A Hudson Valley school district is on heightened alert after receiving information about a "non-specific" and out-of-town threat. Schools in the Orange County Valley Central School District in Montgomery will be on heightened alert on Friday, March 3, and have an increased police presence, according to Valley Central Superintendent Evette Avila. Avila said the threat, which was brought to their attention by a concerned parent, was aimed at New York schools. The notice to parents.Valley Central School District "We take the safety of our students and staff with the utmost importance," A…
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Hudson Valley School Threat Deemed Unfounded, Police Say
A threat against a Hudson Valley middle school caused an area-wide lockdown of schools and a large police response. The threat took place in Dutchess County on Friday, Feb. 24 at the Rombout Middle School in Beacon. According to Det. Sgt. Jason Johnson of the Beacon Police, the school received a call from an individual who made a specific threat. Department members immediately responded to secure Rombout Middle School as well as the other schools in the city and began coordinating with School District administration as well as the Town of Fishkill Police to ensure that all of the…
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Decade After Sandy Hook Shooting, New Tech Giving CT School Added ‘Layer Of Security'
Gun control advocates will tell you that not much has changed since a 20-year-old gunman walked into a Connecticut elementary school and murdered 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012. Since that day, another 279 people have died in 189 different shootings that have occurred at schools across the United States, BBC News reports. Among them are the 19 students and two teachers who were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022. What has changed, though, is the technology that’s available to schools to help keep students a…
Schools
Student Stabbed During Fight At Capital Region High School
A high school student from the region is recovering after being stabbed by another student during an altercation on campus. The incident happened Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 6, at Schenectady High School, a district spokesperson told Daily Voice. During an altercation between two students inside a campus bathroom, a male student pulled a kitchen knife out of his pocket and cut the other student before fleeing the school, according to a district message sent to parents. The injured student required “minor” medical treatment and went home with a parent, officials said. Immediately following the…
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Several Middle School Students In Capital Region Exposed To Marijuana Edibles
A school district in the region is warning parents after several middle school students were exposed to marijuana edibles. The incident occurred at North Albany Middle School, Principal Andrea Piper said in a statement to parents Thursday, Nov. 17. “I am writing to let you know of a situation involving several students in our school community who reported exposure to, or ingestion of, suspected marijuana edibles Thursday,” Piper said. The students were evaluated by the school’s nurse and none were found to show symptoms while in their care, she said. It was not immediately clear how many…
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Gun, Loaded Magazine Found Buried At Westchester County School: Police
Police found a handgun and a loaded magazine buried nearby an elementary school in Westchester County. On Tuesday, Nov. 1 around 12:40 p.m., police responded to Daniel Webster Elementary School in New Rochelle at 95 Glenmore Dr. after school staff reported a partially buried firearm in a dirt area by a tree that could be seen through the schoolyard fence, according to New Rochelle Police. When they arrived, police uncovered an unloaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun along with a fully loaded magazine next to it that had been buried in dirt and leaves, police said. Ac…
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Police Investigate Reported Firearm Threat At Westchester County HS
Police said that "no credible life safety threat" was found after responding to an incident suspected of involving a firearm at a Westchester County high school. On Friday, Oct. 14 at 12:30 p.m., Greenburgh Police responded to a dispute between two students at Woodlands High School in the Hartsdale section of the town after receiving an "alleged statement involving firearms," police said. Upon arriving at the school, the threat was determined to be not credible, and the hold-in-place status put on the school was lifted, police said. Police have also lifted the lockout sta…
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This Westchester High School Ranks Among Top 20 Statewide, New Report Says
A high school in Westchester County is among the top 20 in New York, according to a new ranking from the school review site Niche. Scarsdale Senior High School, in the Scarsdale Union Free School District, was ranked No. 13 out of 1,255 public high schools in the state with an overall grade of A+. It was also ranked No. 1 in best public high schools in Westchester County. Scores are based on a variety of school statistics like math and reading test scores, in addition to reviews from students and parents, according to Niche. Scarsdale High earned top marks in several categories, in…
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19: Westchester County Health Dept. To Distribute 5,600 Air Purifiers To Area Schools
Health officials in Westchester County are set to distribute thousands of air purifiers to area school districts this month in an effort to protect students, teachers, and staff from COVID-19. The Westchester County Department of Health will distribute more than 5,600 air purifiers to 31 school districts in October, county officials announced on Tuesday, Oct. 4. The health department purchased Fellowes AeraMax Pro AM3S PC Air Purifiers, which health officials reported are "proven to remove over 99.99% of COVID-19 particles from the air." The department used $5.2 million in federal fun…
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