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California police confiscated a mammoth joint during a 4/20 pot rally on Saturday, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the paper notes, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gather each year for the event, and each year campus police confiscate things like bongs and dime bags. But Gennady Tsarinsky took things to a whole new level: what police say was a four-foot-long, two-pound joint.

Reddit apologized for the 'dangerous speculation' on the site that pointed fingers at the student. A body pulled from the water off Indian Point Park in Rhode Island has been identified as the Brown University student mistakenly linked by amateur sleuths on a social media site to the Boston bombings.

Officials arrested a 21-year-old student, saying he appeared to have attacked students on Tuesday “at random” before being wrestled to the ground.

The police released few details, aside from saying the school was Wave Preparatory Elementary in Far Rockaway and the weapon was a .22-caliber handgun.

"It is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol," according to a police report.

A UC Irvine professor accused of setting a
series of fires following his son's suicide
wrote in emails that he planned to get a
dozen machine guns and shoot at least 200
students at his son's high school and then
kill himself.

Canadian police are hunting a self-proclaimed porn star who they say killed and dismembered a student, mailed the body parts to police and politicians, and put a video of the act on the Internet.

The former nursing student who the authorities say fatally shot seven people and wounded three others at a religious college had lined his victims up before shooting them, Oakland’s police chief said Tuesday. “This was a calculated, cold-blooded execution in the classroom,” Howard Jordan, the police chief, told CNN.

Controversy is continuing to swirl around a 41-year-old Modesto teacher, who recently resigned his position, left his wife and moved in with an 18-year-old student. The Enochs High School teacher, James Hooker, is fighting back against allegations that he did something illegal as police investigate whether the relationship began before the girl turned 18.

A frantic 911 phone call captures the drama surrounding the fatal shooting by police of an eighth-grade student in Brownsville, Texas.