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The number of cops in North Jersey schools is rising as parents demand that officials do everything possible to keep their children safe.  Police were once considered a luxury in schools or even a distraction, but now school patrols are being beefed up even as municipalities cut other services.  Municipal officials point to the same events to explain the shift: the Columbine massacre, 9/11, Virginia Tech. The trauma and intense media focus that followed each tragedy have overridden questions about the impact of having armed officers patrolling the hallways."In the beginning, it was this concern that this was going...

Police in Las Vegas, Nev., have found a 15-year-old boy and a 30-year-old woman who have been missing for several days. The woman, a counselor who was wanted on sexual abuse charges, is in custody and will be returned to Oregon. According to a news release late this afternoon, Las Vegas authorities just found 30-year-old Jasmine Nguyen and the boy who were the subject of a search by the Portland Police Bureau's Child Abuse Team. Earlier, the bureau had issued a press release saying that Jasmine Nguyen had been tracked to a motel in Wilsonville last week. Then, earlier today,...

BURLESON, Texas – Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got – books, pencils, legs and arms. ‘‘Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals is not a recipe for success,'' said Robin Browne, a major in the British Army reserve and an instructor for Response Options, the company providing the training to the Burleson schools. That kind of fight-back advice is all but unheard of...