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Omaha World-Herald
March 23, 2018
On Oct. 2, 2006, a dairy truck driver well-known to the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pa., walked into that community's one-room schoolhouse, took hostages. He shot and killed five children, wounded five others and killed himself. The news alarmed me: As the superintendent of a small, rural districtÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 23, 2018
On Oct. 2, 2006, a dairy truck driver well known to the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pa., walked into that community's one-room schoolhouse, took hostages and in about a half-hour, shot and killed five children, wounded five others and killed himself. The news alarmed me: As the superintendent of aÃâà...
Daily Press
March 22, 2018
In 2006, a man entered an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., tied up 10 little girls, then shot them to death. In 2015, a man entered a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C., and shot and killed nine people in a Bible study group. In both terrible instances, the families of the victims almostÃâà...
LancasterOnline
March 21, 2018
Janice Ballenger, author of the memoir “Addicted to Life and Death: Memoirs of an EMT and Deputy Coroner,” who was one of the first responders at West Nickel Mines School in Lancaster County when a gunman killed five Amish girls and wounded five others in October 2006. Master of ceremonies KevinÃâà...
PennLive.com
March 18, 2018
Janice Ballenger, author of the memoir, "Addicted to Life and Death: Memoirs of an EMT and Deputy Coroner," who was one of the first responders on the scene at the West Nickel Mines School, when a gunman killed five Amish girls and wounded five others. Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace and formerÃâà...
NBC 10 Philadelphia
March 18, 2018
Receive the latest local updates in your inbox. Email. Privacy policy | More Newsletters. Lancaster Juggles Growing Economy, Rural Character. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images. An Amish buggy in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, one of many Lancaster County communities that has long preserved its iconicÃâà...
Bradford Era
March 10, 2018
“Discussions with the PA Department of Education, state police, educators and security experts continue to progress, as we determine the best approach to continuing to safeguard our schools,” Scarnati said. DePasquale noted that following the Nickel Mines Amish School shooting in 2006, the DepartmentÃâà...
PA home page
March 10, 2018
HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU-TV) Pennsylvania's Auditor General's office has looked at the safety of schools in their audits... Since the Nickel Mines Amish school shooting in 2006. Now... After last month's ... Said PA Auditor General Eugene Depasquale: Which is why the safety of aÃâà...
PennLive.com
March 5, 2018
Here's a look at some of the most infamous criminals in Pennsylvania history. Let us know in the ... On the morning of Oct. 2, 2006, 32-year-old milk truck driver Charles Carl Roberts IV drove about a mile from his home to a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Lancaster County. He ordered theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 22, 2018
David Thweatt had proposed arming teachers after the shooting at West Nickel Mines School in Pennsylvania's Amish country in 2006. School board members initially balked, then changed their minds after the mass shooting that killed 32 that spring at Virginia Tech. Thweatt has since worked with TexasÃâà...
cityandstatepa.com
February 21, 2018
In 2006, Pennsylvania was the site of one of the most notorious school shootings in American history when an armed kidnapper took hostage, and then killed, a number of girls in a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Lancaster County. One House lawmaker, Rep. Rosemary Brown (R-Monroe),Ãâà...
Florida Today
February 14, 2018
... enters a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., and isolates the female students in the classroom before methodically executing them. He kills five girls and wounds several more. Roberts then commits suicide. • March 2005: Sixteen-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and a companionÃâà...
Augusta Free Press
February 11, 2018
Following their two days at EMU, the delegation also visited the Mennonite Central Committee headquarters and Material Resources Center in Akron, Pennsylvania; met with shooting victims and family members in the Nickel Mines Amish community; toured Belleville, Pennsylvania; and visited twoÃâà...
Aitkin Independent Age
February 4, 2018
Forgiveness is not easy, and it is not expected to be. Nonetheless, there are many reasons to consider it. I think about the Amish community of West Nickel Mines, Pa., or the families of the victims of Dylan Roof, who almost immediately expressed forgiveness towards the murderer. Even though they grievedÃâà...
Waynesboro Record Herald
December 31, 1999
Last week, state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said he will make significant changes to how his department reviews safety at Pennsylvania's schools. “Given that my team ... Since the Nickel Mines Amish school shooting in 2006, state officials have added a school safety component to school audits.
York Daily Record/Sunday News
December 31, 1999
It routinely attracts visitors from all over Pennsylvania, and beyond. ... On that date, a man named Charles Carl Roberts IV entered the West Nickel Mines School, a one-room schoolhouse in the heart of the Amish settlement southeast of the city of Lancaster, and shot 10 children, killing five, before endingÃâà...
PhillyVoice.com
December 31, 1999
That information now will be shared with law enforcement, specifically the Pennsylvania State Police, the state attorney general and local police departments. After the deadly 2006 shooting at the Nickel Mines Amish School in Lancaster, auditor general's department added a school safety component to itsÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
December 31, 1999
On Oct. 2, 2006, a man entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., and barricaded the door. He then shot 10 Amish girls: Five died and five survived. In the Amish community, this event is known as “the happening.” As word of the shooting spread, so did word of something astonishing:Ãâà...
Fairfield Citizen
December 31, 1999
The voices of the victims from 11 school massacres before Parkland, Fla., cried out to be heard. They were the students and their teachers who simply went to school one morning and never came home. Do you remember the places and the days they died? Nov. 14, 2017: Rancho Tehama ReserveÃâà...
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