North Pole, Alaska Stunned by Alleged Plot

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/25/06 at 10:22am

Does it ever stop?

NORTH POLE, Alaska (April 25) - The arrests of six boys accused of planning a campus massacre has gripped this small Alaska town with an unsettling epiphany - if it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.


The seventh-graders, all around 13 years old, are suspected of scheming to take guns and knives to the middle school and kill students they felt picked on them as well as teachers they didn't like. Police say the boys planned to knock out the school's power and telephone systems, giving them time for the slayings, then escape from the town of 1,600 about 14 miles southeast of Fairbanks.

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