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FULL TITLE: 'I just got hit by a train': Horrific audio emerges of honor student, 17, calling 911 after having both legs severed by a train Audio has emerged of the 17-year-old Georgia high school senior calling 911 after having both of his legs severed by a train this week. The victim, identified as Jacob Ohl, was rescued alongside the train tracks near Shelly Lane in Lilburn, Georgia when he was struck by a northbound CSX train at 1pm on Thursday. He can be heard calling local authorities sounding extremely calm - likely the effect of extreme shock and adrenaline...

FULL TITLE: Honor student, 17, is struck by freight train and loses both feet after lying down with legs draped over the tracks A 17-year-old Georgia high school senior has lost both his feet after being struck by a freight train in suburban Atlanta. Lilburn Police Captain Thomas Bardugon say the victim, identified as Jacob Ohl, was lying alongside the train tracks near Shelly Lane with his feet draped over the rail when he was struck by a northbound CSX train at 1pm Thursday. It took the locomotive between half a mile and three quarters of a mile to stop...

A 17-year-old high school student working two jobs to support her siblings, while juggling college-level classes, spent 24 hours in jail this week for missing too much school, KHOU 11 News reported. Diane Tran, an 11th-grader at Willis High School in Willis, Texas said she was often too exhausted to get to school in time. Judge Lanny Moriarty said he warned the student last month not to miss any more classes or she would be violating truancy law, KHOU 11 News reported. When she missed school again, he had her thrown in jail. "If you let one run loose, what...

ATLANTA (AP) - A freshman honor student who was expelled for writing a fictional story in her journal about a student killing a teacher will be allowed to return to school on Monday. After newspaper and broadcast reports about Rachel Boim's expulsion, the Fulton County School Board said Friday that it would reconsider its decision at a meeting Nov. 13 - but until then, Rachel will be allowed to attend Roswell High School. The 14-year-old was expelled Wednesday, two weeks after a teacher confiscated her journal during an art class when she passed it to a friend. A story inside...

Expulsion by the book, superintendent says Administrators' hands tied by state, federal statutes, schools chief contends 03/20/2002 By LORI PRICE / The Dallas Morning News BEDFORD - The Hurst-Euless-Bedford schools superintendent said Tuesday that administrators' hands are tied in cases involving zero-tolerance policies. The acknowledgement followed the expulsion of an honor student who was found to have a knife on school property earlier this month. During a news conference Tuesday, Gene Buinger said that if school district administrators could untie state policies that sometimes bind their hands in student disciplinary matters, many of them might. But they can't. "School...