FORT LAUDERDALE Nearly three years after a fellow student shot and killed Amanda Collette in the hallway of Dillard High School, the Broward County School Board has agreed to pay her parents $525,000. Board members voted unanimously Wednesday to settle a civil lawsuit brought last year by the 15-year-old victim's parents, Joyce Collette and Thomas Crowther. There was no discussion of the settlement. In the lawsuit, the parents claimed Amanda Collette's death in November 2008 could have been prevented. They said a student told a teacher that the shooter, Teah Wimberly, had a gun and had threatened to use it,...
