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A 15-year-old boy took 23 of his classmates and a teacher hostage in a classroom at a small-town Wisconsin high school on Monday, shooting himself as police broke in.

Seventeen schools in and around Pembroke Pines in south Florida are under a lockdown Wednesday because of a "credible threat," a spokeswoman for Broward County Schools told CNN.

One person is in custody after two people were shot in the New Hampshire town of Pittsburg, authorities say. New Hampshire State Police say one suspect is in custody following the shootings, which occurred around 11 a.m. and left one person dead and two others wounded.

Flashing police cars guarded Beijing schools Tuesday and officers in another city were told they could shoot to kill to stop ...

Police at Northwestern University's Downtown campus placed the school's Rubloff Building on lockdown Wednesday morning after a man with a gun was spotted in an elevator of the building.

About 10 a.m. Wednesday, a man with a gun in his waistband was spotted in an eleventh floor elevator of the Rubloff Building on the Chicago campus, according to an alert issued on Northwestern's Web site. The building is located at 375 E. Chicago Ave.

Grief counselors are on hand at a suburban Dallas elementary school after a 9-year-old boy was found hanged in a school bathroom. Police in The Colony say the fourth-grader was found by school staff at Stewart's Creek Elementary ...