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The gunman in the Amish school shooting tied together the feet of most female students and allowed boys to leave the building before shooting his victims execution style, police say.

<p>Hostage situation may be developing.</p> <p>Not many details available yet, but an incident has been reported from Mine Rd. in Bart Township in Lancaster County involving multiple gunshot victims. Dennis Buterbaugh reports live from our newsroom. abc27 has a news crew on the way. We will update with details as they become available.</p>

Police: Dad kills sons, self on campus visit POSTED: 10:52 p.m. EDT, September 2, 2006 Adjust font size: SHEPHERDSTOWN, West Virginia (AP) -- A father and his two sons died Saturday in an apparent murder-suicide at Shepherd University, authorities said.Douglas W. Pennington, 49, shot sons Logan, 26, and Benjamin, 24, multiple times then shot himself once in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver on the Shepherd University campus, state police said. Both sons were identified as Shepherd students. Police said the elder Pennington traveled to the campus to visit his sons, but authorities offered no reason for the...

ESSEX, Vt. - A gunman shot five people Thursday, killing two of them, in a rampage through two houses and an elementary school that ended when he wounded himself, police said. One of the slayings occurred at the school, which was not in session. Police Chief David Demag said he could not confirm earlier reports that the victim was a teacher preparing for the start of classes next week. One television report said about 30 staff were in Essex Elementary School. At one point, people could be seen running from the school, ducking their heads. "At this point the scenes...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A shooter opened fire at a Vermont elementary school on Thursday, wounding two people, and authorities were negotiating with the person, who was still inside the school, police said. "We've got police on the scene and a SWAT team," Barbara Farr, director of the Vermont Emergency Management office, said. "Details are sketchy at this point. We know two people are injured. The school is not in session." She said the shooting took place in the Vermont town of Essex and the ages of the shooter and the injured were unclear.

A 17-year-old Venice High School student was fatally shot Monday after a fistfight between black and Latino students spilled onto the campus parking lot, police and witnesses said. Police were unsure Monday evening if the student, identified as Augustine Contreras, had been shot in the chest or the face. LAPD officers were searching a section of Venice's Oakwood neighborhood for the assailant in the 3:10 p.m. attack, which authorities believe was tied to a gang dispute. Two people were briefly detained and then were released, officials said. "It was a very chaotic situation," said Police Capt. Bill Williams, who added...

Kansas cops raid a high school after plans are uncovered off a web page of 5 students to do a Columbine style killing spree at their high school....developing and breaking...

Jeff May, 16, has been awarded the title of "hero" in a national poll. But for him the recognition always will be linked in his mind to tragedy. Reader's Digest magazine has named May, who is credited with saving others' lives during last spring's shooting at Red Lake High School, as its Hero of the Year. May was shot in the face after he tried to wrestle the gunman, schoolmate Jeff Weise, to the ground. It has been a long and difficult struggle for May — who turned 16 on Friday — since the shootings nearly a year ago. And...

VACAVILLE, Calif. -- A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday after bringing a gun to school and discharging it in the gym at the Will C. Wood High School, Vacaville police said. A 15-year-old girl sustained a wound to her face when the gun accidentally went off while the boy was handling it inside his backpack. The bullet struck a concrete sidewalk in the area of the school's gym, and a piece of the bullet or concrete struck the girl, according to Vacaville Unified School District Superintendent John Aycock. She was taken to VacaValley Hospital for treatment. "The girl wasn't a...

LONGWOOD, Florida (CNN) -- The father and brother of a teenager shot at school Friday while brandishing a pellet gun told authorities before an officer opened fire that Christopher Penley's gun was not real, the family's attorney said Saturday. The eighth-grader is clinically brain dead and being kept on life support to harvest his organs, attorney Mark Nation said. When Ralph Penley arrived at the school Friday to help police and school officials defuse the situation, he wasn't allowed inside, Nation said. Nation said Ralph Penley was "angry" because he had spoken to police before he arrived at the school...

LONGWOOD -- A Milwee Middle School eighth-grader, who last year threatened to blow up a school bus, showed up for class Friday with a pistol in his backpack. However, classmates of Chris Penley, 15, didn't know it was a pellet gun. Neither did a veteran Seminole County deputy sheriff, who made a split-second decision to open fire when Chris pointed the weapon at him, authorities said. The deputy's single shot gravely wounded the boy, who was on life support Friday at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

MIRAMAR – A student was shot in the chest aboard a school bus Tuesday morning and police are searching for a teenage girl reported to be armed with a gun. Officials locked down two nearby schools – Perry Elementary and Perry Middle – on the possibility the armed teen could be headed to that area. The shooting occurred around 7:20 a.m. on a southbound school bus near Southwest 38 Street and between Rose and Woodscape drives, which is located east of Florida's Turnpike. Police said two students, both teenage girls, had argued and fought a day earlier and said the...

Friend: Boy's image 'all for show' By JAMIE SATTERFIELD, satterfield@knews.com November 10, 2005 JACKSBORO, Tenn. - He looked like a stone-cold killer, bloody, handcuffed and smirking. But Ashley Nance is convinced it was all an act, one she's seen many times from this once-pudgy 15-year-old boy who, she says, got a kick out of looking bad. --snip-- Bartley is accused in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at Campbell County Comprehensive High School in Jacksboro that left Assistant Principal Ken Bruce dead and two others - Principal Gary Seale and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce - wounded. The teenager sits now in a...

Shooting victims being transported to UT Medical Center Ambulance rushing to scene One school adminstrator was killed and two were seriously wounded in a shooting at Campbell County High School in Jacksboro Tuesday afternoon. Shots were fired inside the principal's office. Killed was Assistant Principal Ken Bruce, who died at St. Mary's Medical Center in LaFollette. Injured were Principal Gary Seale and Assistant Principal Jim Pierce.Advertisement Principal Seale is listed as serious condition at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Jim Pierce is listed in critical condition and undergoing surgery at UT. According to the Associated Press, Seale was injured...

One dead, 2 hurt in Tenn. school shooting By Duncan Mansfield, Associated Press Writer | November 8, 2005 JACKSBORO, Tenn. --A student shot and killed an assistant principal and seriously wounded two other administrators at a high school Tuesday, officials said. The student was arrested. Parents rushed to 1,400-student Campbell County High School to take their children home after the shooting about 30 miles northwest of Knoxville. Assistant Principal Ken Bruce was killed, and Assistant Principal Jim Pearce and Principal Gary Seale were wounded -- Seale while trying to take the student into custory, according to state Education Department spokeswoman...

Reports coming in of a male student having shot 3 faculty members with a rifle. Faculty now on Lifestar helicopters.

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - Columbine High School teachers gathered at the campus Wednesday for a quiet remembrance of the 13 people killed six years ago in the nation's deadliest school shooting. The campus was closed to outsiders, and students were given the day off. Teachers reported for an in-service day. They planned a moment of silence in memory of the 12 students and one teacher who were gunned down on April 20, 1999, by students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The two teens then shot and killed themselves. Principal Frank DeAngelis planned to read the names of the victims over...

The Washington Post published a story on Match 25 faulting President Bush for not injecting himself quickly enough into the tragic killings at the Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota. Post reporter Ceci Connolly found a volunteer at an Indian office who said about Bush, "I don't feel he cares about the American Indian people." This is a classic case of a manufactured story designed to make the president look bad. Connolly, a contributor to Fox News, wrote that "The reaction to Bush's silence was particularly bitter given his high-profile, late-night intervention on behalf of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Star Tribune warned its readers Saturday that some might be offended by a comic strip about the Red Lake Indian Reservation shootings. In the syndicated ''La Cucaracha'' strip that also ran Saturday, a teacher asks what President Bush might have said to console those affected by the shootings last month which left 10 people dead, including the teenage gunman.One student answers, ''I'm really so sorry you're not an Anglo suburban reservation.'' Another says, ''You shoulda stuck to arrows.'' A third says, ''Pow? Wow!''Editor Anders Gyllenhaal, in a note to readers, said the paper was not aware...

Only a gun could have stopped Jeff Weise MARK YOST, St. Paul Pioneer Press Posted on Tue, Mar. 29, 2005 In the week since teenage gunman Jeff Weise walked into Red Lake Senior High School and killed five students, a teacher and a security guard before killing himself, the usual voices from the usual precincts have been asking: What can we do to keep this from happening next time? How about arming security guards, as well as a handful of administrators and teachers who volunteer to be properly trained?I can hear the gasps echoing from Mac-Groveland to Crocus Hill. But...