Authorities said that most of the injuries were minor but that one student, a 17-year-old male, suffered a head injury during a fall and was knocked unconscious. They said the youth was taken by ambulance to Howard University Hospital and regained consciousness on the way.
Alan Etter, a spokesman for the D.C. fire department, said that about 15 students complained of injuries and that five were treated at hospitals.
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UNION COUNTY, Fla. – Four students in Union County were rushed to an area hospital on Wednesday after a pickup truck driver rear-ended their school bus.
The wreck took place at about 3:15 p.m. after school on State Road 121 just south of Raiford.
Union County Sheriff’s deputies said a pickup truck driver failed to stop at an intersection and rear-ended the bus.
Four of the students onboard the bus were take to Lake Butler Hospital as a precaution.
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It happens every Wednesday at Northern Lights School. Students trickle into the gymnasium, shuck their coats and line up.
“Phew, I got here in time,” said Hudson Ojeda as he hustled to the line Dec. 10. The first grader stood poised until the first beep. Once it sounded, he and about 50 other students shot across the gym, turned around and waited for the next beep.
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College students now use prescription drugs more than any other illicit drugs, excluding marijuana and exams are often a time in which students pop a pill or two for an advantage, according to recent studies.
A Sept. 3 study published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that college freshmen think prescription pills are more harmful than drugs like alcohol and marijuana but significantly less harmful than drugs like cocaine and heroin.
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PRINCETON, N.J. – Princeton University officials say 13
intoxicated students were taken to a hospital during an initiation
weekend for off-campus eating clubs.
University spokeswoman Emily Aronson says it’s not clear whether
the number of students hospitalized for alcohol-related problems is
higher than in the past.
Many of the school’s juniors and seniors get their meals in the
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Each year, the Sun Gazette partners with Arlington Public Schools and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources to print the award-winning essays in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest.
Students read their essays at the annual tribute to Dr. King, held this year on Jan. 18 at Thomas Jefferson Community Center.
Casey Wilson, Grade 4, Patrick Henry Elementary School
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“It was winter, and I thought maybe they didn’t go outside because of the weather,” said Barros, now an assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Children’s Hospital in New York City. “I had a headache.”
In fact, the children always had one 10-minute break but were not allowed to talk and had to stay in their chairs. There was nowhere for the kids to go outside and play, the teacher explained.
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POTTSVILLE – Two students at the Penn State Schuylkill campus ran a drug sale operation from their campus housing that involved thousands of dollars in marijuana and other drugs and was protected by stolen guns they kept in their room, police say.
Days after a raid on their apartment, the men and another student also were charged with aggravated assault on a victim beaten so badly that he was hospitalized with a concussion, police said.
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colleges,
including
, will be reimbursed for overpayments they made for health care, said state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. His yearlong investigation found the health care insurer,
Student Health, used outdated reimbursement tables and shortchanged the students.
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10:00 PM PST on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
By MICHELLE L. KLAMPE
Students in several southwestern Riverside County school districts scored better than the state average in the Healthy Fitness Zone, a state measurement of the physical fitness of the state's students.
Statewide, students made small gains, but two in three are still not meeting state standards, according to results of the 2008 California Physical Fitness test released Tuesday.
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