Last month, 14-year-old John Smith was walking across frozen Lake St. Louis with some friends in Lake St. Louis, Mo., near St. Louis when he fell through the ice.
He was underwater for 15 minutes before rescuers got to him, KDSK-TV reported.
When emergency medical responders got him to St. Joseph Hospital West, the eighth-grader wasn't breathing and didn't have a pulse. His body temperature was
For all the times you see schools get hard nosed on punishment and all of the notorious zero tolerance cases that make the national news, this may be the most outrageous case of punishment yet.
On Monday night in Ferguson, Mo., after the grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, predictably, there were riots in the streets.
Megan Bratten, of Independence, Mo., had just gone into the local Kmart to pick up some last-minute school supplies. She was in the store for about 15 minutes and when she came out discovered that her minivan had been stolen.
Thinking quickly, she sent a text to her estranged husband's phone which was still in the minivan, pleading with the thief to return the vehicle.