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A school district in South Carolina has come up with a creative way to post police in school: An officer has set up his office in an elementary school, enabling him to patrol in between administrative duties.

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.

An 11-year-old Utah boy who said he brought a gun to school to protect himself from a Newtown-style attack, then brandished the pistol at three classmates during recess, has been detained on assault and weapons charges, a school spokesman said on Tuesday.

A northern Indiana man who allegedly threatened to "kill as many people as he could" at an elementary school near his home was arrested by officers who later found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout his home.

The Seattle School District is investigating how a fugitive from the law ended up on a school field trip Wednesday afternoon. A fellow parent recognized the man, Donald Vasser, from the TV show "Washington's Most Wanted," and police were called in.

Students at a Washington, DC, elementary school ingested cocaine brought to the school by a fellow pupil today, school officials confirmed.

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 ...