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School Shooting
10:18 am
Mon April 29, 2013

Student hospitalized after shooting himself in La Salle HS classroom

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Credit Ann Thompson, WVXU News
La Salle High School, the scene of a Monday morning shooting.
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School officials and Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil brief the media.
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Parents arrive at La Salle to take their kids home.
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The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department secured the scene Monday morning at La Salle.
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Students start to leave the school with their parents.
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Update: During a televised news conference, La Salle spokesman Greg Tankersley said the school will not release the name of the student who shot himself this morning, at his parents' request. Tankersley said the boy, still in critical condition, is an honors student, with 80 hours of community service.

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Technology
5:31 am
Fri February 1, 2013

Are smart guns the next silver bullet?

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This 9mm, developed by NJIT, is still in the lab and awaiting commercial funding
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Customers at Target World were open to the concept of personalized weapons but didn't want them forced on people.
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Interest in "smart guns," using biometrics and radio frequency technology, has rebounded following recent gun violence. President Obama has included them as part of his plan to reduce such mass shootings. Who makes these guns? How do they work? And will they catch on? Ann Thompson reports in "Focus on Technology."


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