Brickbat: Not the Sharpest Knives

Officials at Wamsutta Middle School in
Massachusetts suspended Morgan LaPlaume for one day after they
caught her with a
butter knife. The girl was only using the knife to cut a pear,
but officials say the school has a zero tolerance policy on
knives.

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Tobias Dustin Summers Is Main Suspect In 10-Year-Old Girl Abduction Case

LOS ANGELES -- Police said Saturday they are looking for a transient in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital.

Investigators identified 30-year-old Tobias Dustin Summers as a suspect in the case but couldn't elaborate on the motive or what led them to him. Police don't know if the girl was targeted but said they don't believe Summers had a connection to her family.

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Another One Rides the Bus

Video shows Stephanie Wilkerson, a driver with Florida's
Hillsborough County School District, literally kicked
an 8-year-old special needs student off her bus. The bus
had stopped, and the girl asked to get off. Wilkerson told her to
wait her turn, and the girl reportedly slapped and pushed her. So
Wilkerson put her foot on the girl's back and pushed her out the
door. The girl broke her ankle in the fall, and Wilkerson has been
charged with aggravated child abuse.

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