A Bellingham child was injured in an alleged hate crime as a group of students returned from a field trip Wednesday afternoon in downtown Bellingham, police and school officials said. The Whatcom Middle School sixth-grader, whose name was not released, was punched in the face by an assailant who apparently targeted the boy because of […]
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Legislature asked to consider special community-building programs for middle-school kids
RICHMOND – Lawmakers representing Petersburg and Roanoke will ask their colleagues to let school systems in those cities establish a program aimed at steering eighth-graders away from gun violence by engaging them in community activities and starting them on the path to job skills and college. Senate and House bills introduced in the opening days of […]