Cyber-attack directed against the Kentucky Department of Education

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A portal in the Kentucky DOE‘s website used by parents to check their student‘s grades was hit with a denial-of-service attack.  This attack crashed the site, preventing parents in 50 school districts from accessing the website.

The DOE worked with AT&T to get the portal re-opened, and shored it up to prevent such attacks from causing it to crash in the future.

Allegations of bullying surround a student suicide

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Greenwich High School‘s school year got off to a tragic start.  Just one day after the first day of school, a 15-year old student died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound.

A look at the student‘s social media sites show a troubled teen. On Google+ he posted a picture of himself holding a knife to his eye, along with the words, “”Hey if I were to stab my eye out due to school caused insanity, who would miss me?”

Shortly after that he posted, “”I have chosen to go with 3 peoples advice and kill myself,” he wrote July 7 after telling his friends on the network that he had swallowed pills. “I just wish it was faster.”

Wild animal at bus stop causes problems

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A 12-year old student noticed a wild animal following her as she walked to her bus stop.  It bagan to chase her, knocked her down and bit her. Family members came to her rescue, and the animal, a fox, was shot and killed.

The girl has received numerous vaccines, and returned to school two days after the attack.