West
Ex-student stabs 3 staff members at private California school before making bomb threat: police
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A former student of a private school in Torrance, California, is in custody after allegedly stabbing three staff members, attempting to stab a fourth person, and later making a bomb threat while under arrest, police said.
The former Switzer Learning Center student left the three staff members injured and triggered a major response from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad Monday.
The Switzer Learning Center is a nonpublic special education school that, according to its website, supports students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
According to a statement posted on the Torrance Police Department’s Instagram page, officers responded around 8:15 a.m. local time to reports of a stabbing at the school on Amapola Court.
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The Torrance Police Department said the suspect also claimed to have placed two pipe bombs near the intersection of 208th Street and Amapola Avenue, near The Switzer Learning Center. (Credit: KKTV)
Police said the former student had entered the campus and allegedly stabbed three staff members before fleeing.
Two of the victims were taken to Harbor General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and a third was treated at the scene by the Torrance Fire Department.
Authorities added that the suspect also attempted to stab a fourth person before escaping.
Responding officers later located and took the suspect into custody without further incident.
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Footage from the scene showed what looked like a knife and a backpack found on grass near The Switzer Learning Center. (Credit: KKTV)
According to the Torrance Police Department’s statement, the suspect also claimed to have placed two pipe bombs near the intersection of 208th Street and Amapola Avenue.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad was then dispatched to carry out a thorough investigation.
As a precaution, Torrance Police issued a public advisory urging people to avoid the immediate area of 208th Street and Amapola Avenue.
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The Switzer Learning Center is a nonpublic special education school that, according to its website, supports students from kindergarten through 12th grade. (Google Maps)
Nearby streets were temporarily closed, and the Switzer Learning Center was placed on lockdown as emergency crews secured the scene.
Authorities also confirmed in the official Instagram update that no explosive devices had been found, though the investigation into the bomb threat was ongoing.
Police have also not released the suspect’s name or disclosed a possible motive and said the investigation continues.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Torrance Police Department for further comment.
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The honor of introducing former President Barack Obama at the grand opening of his new presidential library in Chicago Thursday went to Dr. Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Punihei Lipe of Hawaii.
Hawaii News Now reports that Lipe participated in the inaugural cohort of the Asia-Pacific Leaders Program in 2019 and is currently the principal at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama.
“Where I come from, to introduce someone means we have pilina, a connection. If this man walked into my home, my children would call him uncle because we are both keiki o ka ʻāina, children of Hawaii,” she said in her remarks.
She told those in attendance that the former president and herself are both “children of Hawaii.” Obama lived on the island and attended Punahou School and lived in Hawaii for eight years until his graduation from high school.
Lipe said being children of Hawaii carries with it a “sacred responsibility to care for those who we may never meet.”
She made reference to the resilient Hawaiian shrub, the Like a’ali’i.
“The a’ali’i thrives by being deeply rooted, resilient through storm and drought, and fiercely responsive. That is what ‘yes, we can’ means to my indigenous heart. It demands that we remain unshakably rooted in truth, resilient through trial, and so responsive that just as this plant yields its leaves for medicine, its blooms for beauty, and its timber for protection, we become the healing, the vibrance, and the shelter needed by our communities and by grandmother earth.”
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Idaho
Mountain Home neighbors kickoff Juneteenth celebrations as Idaho marks 25 years of recognition
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho — Mountain Home neighbors are coming together this weekend to honor Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
June 19 marks the day enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, were freed — more than 2 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Mountain Home celebrates Juneteenth with a weekend of community events
The Mountain Home Juneteenth Committee hosts an annual Juneteenth 5K to honor the holiday. Saturday’s festivities continue at noon at Carl Miller Park with food, live music, games, and more.
Committee Vice President Dylisaly Reed said this year’s event marks an important milestone. 25 years ago, efforts led by former Mountain Home Mayor Joe B. McNeal helped Idaho become one of the first states to officially observe Juneteenth — though the holiday did not become an official state and federal holiday until 2021.
“It took the help and the foresight and the running, and the legacy of Dirk Kempthorne and Joe B. McNeil, who did what they had to do in order to make this happen for us,” Reed said.
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Many neighbors said they only learned about Juneteenth a few years ago. Purvis Cowens, who attended the Mountain Home Juneteenth 5K, said awareness remains a challenge.
“We don’t talk about it in school. A lot of people of color are really not familiar with it,” Purvis Cowens said. “So it’s a good deal to get it out there and get it in the community.”
To help change that, the committee uses money raised through its events to fund 5 scholarships for local high school seniors, who write essays about what Juneteenth means to them.
Charlotte Cowens, who hosts the Mountain Home Juneteenth 5K, said understanding history is essential.
“It’s nice to know history because you got to know your history to know where you’re going. So if you don’t know where you came from, you never know where you’re going,” Charlotte Cowens said.
Reed said the scholarship has already made a meaningful impact.
“This was a young Caucasian gentleman, and he won, and he said when he did the research for his essay, he found out so many things he absolutely just never knew. And that’s all we want,” Reed said.
The committee said these events and the scholarship funds wouldn’t be possible without their sponsors, including Freer Foundation, Mountain Home Black History Committee, St. Luke’s, A Taste of Texas, and many more local businesses and churches.
To learn more about the Mountain Home Juneteenth Committee and this weekend’s events, click here.
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