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NEWS ABOUT: knife

knife stories: 11 news summaries

 First-Grader 
 With Camp Knife 
 Back in School 

Board shortens punishment from 45 days to 3

Oct 14, 09 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Delaware first-grader suspended for bringing a camping knife to school is welcome to return after the school board amended its zero-tolerance policy. Zachary Christie was to spend 45 days at an alternative school; now, kindergarten and 1st-grade students with a “dangerous instrument”—a blade less than 3... More »

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school • suspension • Delaware • elementary school • school board • school violence • knife • zero-tolerance • Zachary Christie

School Suspends 1st-Grader for Cub Scout Eating Utensils

Zero-tolerance weapons policies sometimes ridiculous, say critics

Oct 12, 09 1:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A first grader was suspended for 45 days from school for bringing a Cub Scout combined knife-fork-spoon utensil to class, triggering an uproar among parents. Zachary Christie, 6, was booted because his Newark school has a zero-tolerance policy on knives. Horrifying episodes like the Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings have... More »

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Virginia Tech • discrimination • weapon • elementary school • Columbine school massacre • knife • Boy Scouts of America • policy

Couples Therapist's Solution to Marital Fight? Knife Hubby

NYC psychologist must have forgotten own advice

Oct 6, 09 12:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Manhattan couples therapist—who once told the New York Times the biggest problem between men and women is communication—is accused of knifing her husband in an argument. Joyce Poster-Lederman—or, as the Post calls her, “the frustrated female Freudian”—allegedly blew up during a... More »

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New York • marriage • psychology • assault • therapist • knife

 Taiwan Teen Severs 
 Dad's Hands Over Abuse 

17-year-old bought knife, sliced both father's wrists

Sep 29, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Taiwan arrested a 17-year-old boy who chopped off his father's hands, allegedly after suffering years of physical abuse. The boy used a knife cut through both of his father's wrists while he slept, although doctors succeeded in reattaching them. Local media reported that the boy suffered frequent beatings... More »

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crime • Taiwan • child abuse • knife • mutilation

 Roman Soccer Fans 
 Will Kick, Er, 
 Stab Your Butt 

Anyway you slice it, extreme fans like to attack from behind

May 28, 09 3:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - People who attend soccer games in Rome have to watch their backsides, warns the BBC. That's because Romans are particularly fond of stabbing rival fans in the butt. Stabbings are "now so frequent they're hardly reported in the press," said a professor who has studied the attacks. "... More »

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Italy • Rome • soccer • stabbing • roman • fans • Roman Empire • knife • Jay-ZTV • soccer violence

 Pastor Killed in Ill. 
 Church Shooting 

Three others injured, including suspect

Mar 8, 09 2:08 PM CDT
(AP) - Illinois state police say a man shot a pastor to death and injured others at a church during a service in Maryville. Master Trooper Ralph Timmins says the man walked down the aisle during the early Sunday service at First Baptist Church in Maryville, exchanged words with pastor Fred Winters,... More »

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crime • church • Illinois • church shootings • shooting • pastor • knife • guns

'Angry' Knife Nut Guilty of Killing Potter Actor

He said 'Yeah, sweet'
when Rob Knox died; sentencing tomorrow

Mar 4, 09 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - A British court found a young knife enthusiast guilty today of murdering an actor from the next Harry Potter film, the Guardian reports. Karl Bishop, 22, stabbed the 18-year-old actor Rob Knox five times with a pair of kitchen knives last May, as Knox tried to protect his brother... More »

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Harry Potter • murder • stabbing • murder trial • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince • knife

 3 Dead in Belgian 
 Nursery School Attack 

Attacker in face
paint injures 20;
children evacuated

Jan 23, 09 6:51 AM CST
(Newser) - An unknown man wielding a knife at a Belgian nursery school killed at least 2 children and one adult today, the BBC reports. A dozen or more were said to be injured in the attack northwest of Brussels. The attacker, wearing black-and-white face paint, fled by bicycle, says the Times... More »

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Belgium • crime • children • stabbing • knife • nursery school

Facebook Pulls Stabbing App Amid UK Knife Deaths

Britain concerned about spate of knife violence

Jul 30, 08 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - A surge in knife crime has shaken Britain, ABC News reports. Twelve people—six of them teenagers—were stabbed to death in a single week this month. Public concern has caused Facebook to yank a third-party application where users could send each other "virtual stabs," and Nike has... More »

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crime • Facebook • violence • stabbing • Britain • knife

Tokyo Killer Warned of Slaughter Online

Posted 'It's time'
20 minutes before rampage that killed 7

Jun 9, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - The young man accused of killing 7 people in a knife rampage in downtown Tokyo warned of the attacks in a series of messages to an Internet bulletin board, reports the AP. Tomohiro Kato, who rammed his truck into pedestrians before stabbing 17 of them, posted warnings from his cell... More »

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Japan • violence • Tokyo • knife • Tomohiro Kato

Harry Potter Actor Killed in Vicious London Knife Fight

Knox had finished filming on new movie

May 24, 08 9:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Robert Knox, a young British actor set to appear in an upcoming Harry Potter movie, was stabbed to death outside a London bar early today, the Daily Mail reports. The teen, who had finished filming his part as Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby, was killed defending his younger brother following... More »

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Harry Potter • London • crime • murder • stabbing • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince • Robert Knox • knife

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