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Two Georgia high school softball teams have been bumped from their state playoffs after a massive brawl broke out during a Wednesday game. South Atlanta High School and Washington High School were banned by Atlanta Public Schools before first round regional games took place on Tuesday. The violent squabble took place last Wednesday at South Atlanta High. Video obtained by WSB-TV shows several punches being thrown as chaos ensues at the school.

TALLAHASSEE — Hoping to fend off a rash of overdoses in Florida during the upcoming spring break, Attorney General Pam Bondi has outlawed a synthetic drug cocktail masquerading as "bath salts" that apparently gives users super-human strength and has similar effects to LSD, heroin and cocaine. Bondi issued an emergency order Wednesday banning the drug -- Methylenedioxypyrovalerone or MDPV -- after Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen brought the dangerous concoction to her attention Friday. "I frankly had a nightmare last night that someone was going to overdose on this and we hadn't done anything," she said. Unlike real bath salts,...

This isn't exactly proud papa news: My daughter, Reina, who recently turned 13, just racked up 14,528 text messages in one month. Thank God she's too young to drive. Given that she's had a cell phone for less than six months, and she is supposed to share the phone with her 14-year-old brother (and use it mainly for emergencies) — well, I'm speechless. Or should I say, textless? Her mother, Manako, recently got the phone bill from AT&T. Only 23 pages of the bill came with the bill mailed to her home in Lake Forest. Manako went online and looked...

Four teenagers were killed early Thursday morning when the stolen SUV they were in and a train collided. It happened in Baytown at Archer Road and Fleming around 3:30 a.m. According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, six teenagers were in the stolen Jeep when the driver apparently did not see a Union Pacific train that had apparently been stalled on the tracks for some time. The SUV slammed into the tanker car at a high rate of speed and went under it into a ditch. Four people in the backseat, three girls and one boy ages 12 to 15,...

Student suspended for singing `threatening' songby The Associated Press SUWANEE - A student at Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee has been suspended for a week after a teacher accused her of singing a threatening song in class. Sixteen-year-old Beth Ann Cox admits singing the parody of ``On top of Ol' Smokey,'' but she denies any wrongdoing. She was suspended yesterday for five days. The lyrics that alarmed the German teacher were, ``On top of Ol' Smokey, all covered with blood, I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug.''

CRANSTON -- The School Department is not happy that some middle school students were asked to write their views on same-sex marriage and that their work was published in a local newspaper as letters to the editor. M. Richard Scherza, assistant superintendent of schools, said yesterday that the topic -- on which Park View Middle School eighth graders expressed their views in this week's edition of the Cranston Herald -- was not appropriate for that age group and he will take up the matter with administrators and teachers. "I don't know exactly how this came about, but it is a...