Bullying

It was a day of solidarity at Southport Middle School Thursday. Students and staff wore white t-shirts in an effort to take a stand against bullying. It was all part of a nationwide effort called the Million T-Shirt March, to raise awareness against...

"It used to be 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,' that is not the case anymore," said Angie Stagge, mother of bullied. Stagge feels for the families of Billy Lucas and Tori Swoape. The two students took their own...

He had faced up to ten years in prison for the cyberbullying conviction that led his Rutgers roommate, Tyler Clementi, to commit suicide. Instead, Dharun Ravi will be going to jail for a month, and it seems that hardly anyone is pleased with the sentence....

It seems like most students would get praised for creating a 6 minute anti-bullying video for a school project. Instead, 15-year-old Jessica Barba was suspended for it. In the video you see a fictitious girl who commits suicide after getting bullied....

Cyber-bullying and bullying in general has no doubt become a hot button topic amongst teens, which is why Jessica Barba, a freshman at Longwood High school decided to make the issue the focus of one of her school projects on persuasive promotion. Instead,...

Amanda Cummings, 15, a Staten Island high school sophomore who committed suicide, clearly indicated on Facebook weeks beforehand that she was contemplating taking her life, possibly because of bullying at her school . Intimidating postings on Cummings'...

A ray of hope, and a touch of grace. That's the mantra that the family of Howard County teen Grace McComas hopes will prevail in confronting incidents of bullying. Addressing a group of parents and school leaders Saturday, they said the emerging epidemic...

About 200 people gathered at Veteran's Memorial Plaza Tuesday night to show their support for Dynasty Young and all bullied students. “The administrators at that school need to know that, 'okay (they) made a mistake,' we need to protect our...

An Indianapolis student who brought a stun gun to school to confront his bullies has been expelled Tuesday. The Indianapolis Public Schools said they affirmed the decision to expel Darnell Young, 17, from Arsenal Technical High School for the...

An Indiana mother who sent her gay son to school with a stun gun after administrators apparently didn't do enough to stop the bullying against him said she would do it again -- even though the teen now faces expulsion. "I do not promote violence --...

Darnell Young, 17, likes to be called Dynasty. He said the teasing and bullying by other students at Arsenal Tech High School started the first day of class and never let up.  "The more months, the more days that went through the school year, the more...

As the NATO summit approached, Chicago police Friday continued to hold several people suspected of making Molotov cocktails but would say nothing about the arrests, adding to a growing mystery over the nature of the investigation. Police earlier Friday...