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Boys, girl arrested in shot near school
Three boys and a girl, ages 12 to 16, were arrested by police Monday afternoon in connection with a shot fired behind Tioga Middle School earlier in the day.
The school was locked down for about 30 minutes after students reported seeing a gun fired on Santa Ana Avenue behind the school. Susan Bedi, Fresno Unified School District spokeswoman, said school officials locked down the campus about 2:40 p.m.
Police said no one was injured.
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Police wound man waving gun
Three Fresno police officers shot and wounded a man Monday morning after he fired several rounds into a southeast Fresno church and then stood in an intersection waving a handgun at officers, police said.
The man was shot several times in a neighborhood near Easterby Knox Presbyterian Church, across the street from Bakman Elementary School on Belmont Avenue west of Peach Avenue.
As the events unfolded, Bakman students huddled quietly inside their classrooms with doors and windows closed.
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SWAT team responds to cap gun at Wash. school
The initial 911 report from the Vancouver, Wash., elementary school was alarming: shots fired at a school playground. That had police and SWAT officers scrambling Tuesday morning - only to find the weapon was a bright orange cap gun.
Police and school officials say a second-grade boy at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School brought the gun and apparently pointed it at two 6-year-olds and fired it, discharging smoke.
The two students told a playground supervisor that another student had fired a gun at them - and the response took off from there. Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp says, "When you have that type of a call, there's no waiting."
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Fresno boy running in train's path killed
A Cooper Middle School student running across a railroad track trying to beat a train was struck and killed late Thursday afternoon in northwest Fresno.
The unidentified eighth-grader was walking south on Fruit Avenue just south of Ashlan Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. as the southbound Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train approached, Fresno police said.
The victim had been walking with three boys before he started to run, despite the others yelling at him to stop.
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Fire destroys 2 buildings at Dos Palos High
Fire destroyed two buildings at Dos Palos High School as flames swept through the wood, auto and agriculture mechanics shops Thursday afternoon.
The school's 760 students were sent home early. The cause remained under investigation late Thursday.
The fire began in the industrial arts building in the wood shop about 1:15 p.m. and quickly engulfed the second building, said Ryan Williams with CalFire. The first building contained the wood and auto shops and the second included the agriculture classroom and the agriculture mechanics classroom and shop.
The two-story K Street School opened for classes Sept. 16, 1889, with three teachers and 50 students. Made of brick, the school was designed by architect R.L. Young and built for $20,000.
The basic design was an inner square with four short wings. At its center were two octagonal central halls on the first and second floors. The hall on the second floor served as an auditorium seating 600.
An early map of the school shows a nearby "play shed" and separate toilets at the corner of the property for boys and girls.
Tragedy struck the school before it began. While waiting for classes to start, three boys found their way into the school's third-story belfry. One of the boys, Henry Church, fell to his death during horseplay. The bell tower was torn down in the early 1900s.
The school eventually became known as Emerson School, and kindergarten through sixth grades were taught in 12 classrooms. Author William Saroyan was Emerson's most famous student.
High school classes were held on the second floor until Fresno High School was built at O and Tuolumne streets in 1896. The school was torn down in the 1930s.
An early day student recalled in The Fresno Bee in 1962 that in the rainy season when the streets would flood, enthusiastic kids would row washtub boats down the street to get to school.
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