Pssst! Bullies are b-o-r-i-n-g!

By David Spunt
WAFB.COM News
BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – A Baton Rouge parent is suing The Dunham School over what he calls a case of old fashioned bullying. Dr. Russell Saloom, a Baton Rouge ophthalmologist, says The Dunham School did nothing to stop the harassment of his child.
Saloom says his ten-year-old son was bullied at the [...]

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Rachel Brown
The Daily Citizen
Chattsworth, Georgia — No one will be charged at Murray County High School in connection with alleged bullying incidents David and Tina Long say led to their son’s Oct. 17 suicide.
The couple asked the Chatsworth Police Department to look into their son Tyler’s last days, saying he took his life because he [...]

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By MOLLY CONNORS
Cape Cod Times
BOSTON — A Cape Cod mother made a tearful plea to state legislators yesterday to pass one of a dozen bills addressing school bullying, saying the state must step in to assure schools do their job in protecting students from mental and physical anguish.
“I felt my son needed to be protected. [...]

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Mark Jeffries
Scottish Daily Record
SINGING sensation Susan Boyle has revealed she was bullied and got the belt every day at school.
She also unveiled her new look as she prepares for the release of her debut album, I Dreamed A Dream – with pre- sales thought to be well over 100,000.
The Britain’s Got Talent star also spoke [...]

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Karen Zatkulak
News Channel 9
Chatsworth, Georgia — A family wants answers after they say bullying lead to their son’s death. Seventeen year old Tyler Long committed suicide last month.
“He was my best friend, my role model, I looked to him for advice,” Troy Long, Tyler’s fourteen-year-old brother, says.

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News10.com
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A San Diego mother is seeking legal action after she said bullying from her daughter’s former classmate has spiraled out of control, 10News reported.
Alkini Lauderdale’s 14-year old-daughter stopped going to school because she’s afraid for her safety. Lauderdale said a classmate had been harassing her since the 5th grade, and she’s [...]

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By Rich Phillips
CNN
Deerfield Beach, Florida (CNN) — It’s a call that no firefighter ever wants to have to answer.
For firefighter-paramedic Bobby Goss, it was the worst call of his four-year career. And when you hear the screams of 15-year-old Michael Brewer on the 911 calls, you know why this was such a horrific call for [...]

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By ROD CHALLENGER
Tampa Tribune
At least two families are suing the Pinellas County school district over allegations of bullying.
Velma Newman, the mother of one victim, said she wants to force the school district to take action so that other children don’t end up like her son.

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By Paul Ciolino
CBS News
NEW YORK (CBS) The Elizabeth Lambert video, which is making the rounds, is a fascinating inside look at Woman’s Division One Soccer. I’m not sure that if this were Division One men’s soccer anyone would be making a fuss. Because we have an attractive and I might add aggressive female player this [...]

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By Rich Phillips
CNN
Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) — Three teens who allegedly set a 15-year-old friend ablaze were charged Monday as adults, and with attempted murder, prosecutors said.
The state attorney’s office in Broward County, Florida, identified the three youths as Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent, age 15, and Jesus Mendez, age 16. They are charged with [...]

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Independent Television News
CORNWALL, England — Police have said they are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry in their hunt for the killers of a devoted mother of nine who died in a house fire started by a firework pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, was trapped in her bedroom after reportedly pushing her 17-year-old [...]

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By Chandra Devi
New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: He was new in school and spoke with an accent.
Some students found Azim, who had studied abroad, “weird” and he was teased and ridiculed for being different.
Months of teasing and taunting took their toll on Azim who broke down and was admitted to a psychiatric ward.
Psychological bullying is [...]

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By Steven Swinford
London Sunday Times
POLICE have opened a murder inquiry into the death of a mother of nine in a house fire that started when a firework was pushed through her letterbox.
Mary Fox, 59, died after helping her teenage son jump through an upstairs window to save him as flames engulfed the house in Bodmin, [...]

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By: Valerie Castro
Eyewitness News 4
Matthew Kappus
KOB.com
Collegiate women’s soccer is a high-adrenaline, fast-paced game. But the the cheap shots taken by one Lobo player are still pretty hard to explain.
In a nationally-televised match Thursday between UNM and BYU, Lobo defender Elizabeth Lambert was caught making some rough fouls on Cougar players. At one point, Lambert even [...]

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By Omar L. Gallaga
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
AUSTIN, Texas — Pooja Shetty, a 17-year-old senior at Bowie High School, learned about cyber bullying firsthand. But, to her surprise, she turned out to be one of the bullies.
She and a friend used AOL Instant Messenger to pose as a popular girl and send messages to their friends. “We were [...]

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By Allison Steele and Peter Mucha
Philadelphia Inquirer
Police are investigating whether the shooting of a 17-year-old Philadelphia student on a school bus early yesterday was in retaliation for an incident of bullying.
The teens were on a school bus headed to a high school for troubled students when a 15-year-old shot the student in the head. [...]

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BBC News
Mary Fox helped her 17-year-old son jump out of a window on the first floor
The family of a “devoted” mother-of-nine from Cornwall, who died in a house fire after a firework was put through the door, have paid tribute to her.
Mary Fox died in the fire in Wallace Road, Bodmin on Thursday night, after [...]

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By Richard Savill
Telegraph
BODMIN, Cornwall — Police are investigating a report that the blaze may have been caused by a firework which had been pushed through the letterbox.
Neighbours said Mary Fox, 59, was seen pushing her 17-year-old son Raum out of the first floor window of their three storey home in Bodmin, Cornwall, shortly after the [...]

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CTV British Columbia
RCMP in Richmond, B.C., said Friday that a group of teenaged boys who viciously attacked a 16-year-old boy earlier this week appeared to have been motivated by revenge.
“The victim was described as a bully himself,” said RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Pound in a press release.
At about 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police were called to [...]

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By Seth Stoker
universe.byu.edu
Thursday night’s matchup between the BYU and New Mexico womens’ soccer teams got ugly, thanks mostly to Lobo soccer player Elizabeth Lambert. Lambert’s actions were caught on camera several times, ranging from tripping an opponent to brutally yanking a BYU player to the ground by her pony tail. The national media has taken [...]

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