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Authorities are investigating reports of an armed student holding a classroom hostage at a high school in Wisconsin.

Police are on scene and no injuries are reported at this time, Marinette County Emergency Management said in a news release, without confirming a hostage standoff.

Police received a call just before 4 p.m. local time of an armed student at Marinette High School. Parents were asked to respond to the county courthouse to receive information on their children

Snipped: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/2...ol-classroom-hostage-wisconsin/#ixzz16ifJ9uMC
 
Thankyou, this is the first I have heard of this here in PA
 
Student with Gun Holding 24 Hostages at Marinette High School
Marinette's police chief says a student armed with a handgun is holding 23 students and a teacher in a classroom.
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Marinette Police Chief Jeff Skorik says it's a male student armed with a handgun. He is using a teacher as a liaison to authorities outside the school.

Chief Skorik says despite reports on social media there are no injuries reported, and no shots were fired.

Dozens of students and family members have gathered at a hair salon near the school. They tell us they're worried because they don't know exactly what is going on, and there are a lot of rumors.
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http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=13584042
 
passionflower said:
Thankyou, this is the first I have heard of this here in PA
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It was the first I heard of it here in Wisconsin! I've been looking for more info, haven't really found any yet. This is a link to a local newspaper, no other info yet, but they are running a little streaming announcement up on the top.

Not much new info here (http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_9f72515e-fc15-11df-b4fd-001cc4c002e0.html), just a small quote from a teacher:
Choral teacher Bonita Weydt said she was talking with a teacher in another classroom after school, which lets out about 3:10 p.m., when principal Corry Lambie came in.

"I said, 'Corry, what's going on?' and he said, 'Get out of the building,'" Weydt said.
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Scary.
 
Here is a link to the H/S webpage. I haven't seen it yet it keeps loading and loading. I'm sure the net traffic has slowed it down. If this started around 3pm the situation has been going over five hours.

http://mhs.marinette.k12.wi.us/
 
School schedule is 8am to 3:12pm.
 
Update: Student Holding Hostages has No History with Police
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They don't know what his demands are or what prompted this. The student doesn't have any history with police, Chief Skorik said. It also isn't known whether the student was supposed to be in that classroom when this began.

Chief Skorik said the situation started toward the end of the school day -- while school was still in session. Authorities weren't notified until later, after other students had left.
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http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=13584042
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisco...DeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDY2hpZWYyM3N0dWRl

Police Chief: 23 students, teacher hostage at Wis. school

"MARINETTE, Wis. – An armed student burst into a high school classroom in eastern Wisconsin on Monday, taking more than 20 students and a teacher hostage, authorities said.

A Marinette High School administrator called authorities after 3 p.m. to say a student had taken over a classroom, officials said. Police Chief Jeff Skorik said authorities had been able to communicate with the teacher inside the classroom. No injuries had been reported as of Monday evening and Skorik said no shots had been fired...."

BREAKING NEWS

more at link
 
Armed student takes hostages at Wisconsin high school
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Marinette Police Chief Jeff Skorik said there were no injuries so far in the incident and negotiators were communicating with the classroom via telephone, mostly with the teacher.

"We are hoping to be able to eventually speak with the student and resolve this matter," Skorik said.
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At least 40 emergency personnel were on the scene and the school has been surrounded and the perimeter secured, he said.

Witnesses said there were numerous police cars and fire trucks on the scene and and the parking lot nearby was filled with people, many of them students.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-wisconsin-hostages-20101130,0,573804.story
 
I've been following this on Twitter for the last hour or so.

Prayers these kids & the teacher all get out safely.
 
Oh Lord, please let everyone come out of this unharmed.
 
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/111004559.html

Dan Kitkowski, regional editor for the Marinette Eagle Herald and the parent of a Marinette High School senior, told a Journal Sentinel reporter that the situation unfolded during a 6th period Western Civilization class that began between 1:30 and 2 p.m.

His daughter and other students enrolled in the class the following period were turned away at the door to the classroom by the teacher, who told them to go to the school's library.

"She (the teacher) looked a little nervous but nobody thought anything of it," Kitkowski said during a telephone interview
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