The girl, 8-year-old Amina Kocer-Bowman, was rushed by air ambulance to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and wheeled into surgery for a gunshot wound to the stomach, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said.
Gregg said Kocer-Bowman remained in critical condition following the 90-minute surgery.
“She’s critical, she’s very sick,” Gregg said about five hours after the 1:30 p.m. PST shooting in a classroom at Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton, Washington.
The spokeswoman said she didn’t expect the girl’s condition to change overnight.
The 9-year-old boy, who was not identified by authorities, was taken into custody by police, a Bremerton School District spokeswoman said, and the school was locked down before students were allowed to leave.
“We do know the gun and the student were found,” Bremerton School District spokeswoman Patty Glaser said.
Glaser said police were still investigating the incident, which took place shortly before the end of the school day. Armin Jahr Elementary teaches about 400 students in grades K-5.
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The running was apparently a punishment for Savannah Hardin, 9, who died on Monday at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham from dehydration and low sodium, a condition common in marathon runners, according to Natalie Barton, Etowah County, Alabama Public Information Officer.
The child was apparently forced to run in the family’s yard for eating a forbidden candy bar and lying about it, she said.
A call placed to a 911 emergency operator reported an unresponsive child having seizures, said Barton.
“It appears they ran her until she dropped,” she said.
The child’s grandmother, Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, and step-mother, Jessica Mae Hardin, 27, were charged on Wednesday with felony murder. Bond was set at $500,000 each.
The girl’s father, who had custody, was not home at the time, said Barton.
There had been no prior reports of abuse in the family, Barton said.
The third-grader’s fellow students created a makeshift memorial on her desk at school, writing notes
]]>In 2000, 6.3 million children lived in high poverty in the United States, a report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found.
The growth – a 25 percent increase – reverses the trend just a decade ago that saw fewer children living in communities with high poverty rates, according to the nonprofit group.
And three-quarters of those children live in such areas despite having at least one parent working, the study showed.
The findings reflect the hit the U.S. economy took during and after the 2007-2009 recession even as signs now point to steady recovery. The nation’s jobs market has improved, the number of home sales has grown and recent gains on Wall Street have prompted optimism among investors.
“The recession has really set back much of the progress that was made in the 1990s when poverty went down,” Robert Sampson, a professor of social sciences at Harvard University and head of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Laura Speer, associate director for policy reform and data at the
]]>The jury deliberated for about nine hours before finding Huguely, 24, guilty of killing his 22-year-old on-again, off-again girlfriend Yeardley Love.
The case drew national media attention to the quiet college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, where Huguely and Love once played on the university’s nationally ranked men’s and women’s lacrosse teams.
Prosecutors said their college romance turned deadly in May 2010 when Huguely entered Love’s apartment while she was asleep, kicking in her bedroom door and slamming her head against the wall.
Prosecution expert witnesses said Love, from Cockeysville, Maryland, died about two hours later from blunt force trauma to the head.
“Every year that goes by, I would like to know what she would be doing now,” Sharon Love, the victim’s mother, told the court on Wednesday. “Also, every year that goes by, I’m like afraid that I’m forgetting little pieces about her.”
Huguely faced a first-degree murder charge and could have received a lifelong sentence, but after the two week trial jurors instead found Huguely guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny. In Virginia, a second-degree murder charge
]]>After all, a spike in gasoline prices early last year helped nearly knock the economy back into recession.
The answer, economists say, is that this time is different: the recovery is in far better shape to absorb the blow.
“This is the dark cloud in an otherwise brightening domestic economic picture. It’s something we need to watch right now, but not panic about yet,” said Jerry Webman, chief economist at OppenheimerFunds in New York.
U.S. gas prices have jumped 8.8 percent since the start of this year, according to the Energy Information Agency, topping an average of $3.65 a gallon in the week through Monday. This is a record for this time of the year when prices are usually on the low side because of slow seasonal demand.
Early last year, a combination of strong gasoline prices in the wake of the so-called Arab spring uprisings and disruptions to motor vehicle production after a devastating earthquake in Japan put the brakes on U.S. growth.
Although gasoline prices are 41 cents higher than they were at this time last year, there are no supply-chain problems disrupting
]]>The officer shot Tony Jones, 24, in the back as he fled from a police car at about 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, according to Jones’ attorney, Waukeen McCoy.
“He made a mistake running, but that didn’t give them the right to shoot him in the back,” McCoy said. Jones is the son of Oscar Grant’s aunt, he added.
Oakland police have said that officers shot at Jones when he ran from them carrying a firearm after leaving a car they believed was involved in a robbery.
An Oakland police spokeswoman could not be reached for further comment on Wednesday.
Grant’s death after being shot by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Joseph Mehserle on New Year’s Day in 2009 has since become a rallying point for anti-police demonstrations in Oakland.
Mehserle, who is white, shot Grant, who was black, in the back as Grant lay on the ground. Mehserle said later he confused his service revolver for his Taser.
Protesters said the case was an example
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