THOMSON - The McDuffie County Board of Education has approved hiring three school security officers.Meeting Thursday, the board agreed to the move to ensure there will be an armed, certified officer at each county school...

A school security officer at a health care town hall forum in Reston, Va., didn't like the image of Barack Obama on a protester's sign. So he ordered...

...guidance counselors asking high school students what classes they want to take; a student attacked once by a school security officer, and again with backup; government mandates that are not fully funded; $7 million in austerity funds subtracted...

...nothing's been done. Virtually every school system across the nation has beefed up security, including hiring in-school security officers, installing cameras and metal detectors, and developing emergency response programs. One South Carolina school...

...member had exercised that option, according to school officials. While it's not uncommon to take an extra school security officer to away games, Greenbrier High will assign one to cover its band and another to guard its cheerleading squad...

...at about 10:30 a.m. and resulted from an ongoing argument between the 16-year-old and the older boy, school security officer Duke Smalley said. The older teen, whom police identified as Preston Raines, of the 800 block of Sparkleberry...

...classes began Tuesday morning. While walking through the school parking lot about 7 a.m., a Greenbrier High School security officer saw a teen smoking a cigarette in a car, said Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris. "As he was investigating...

...smoking cigarettes in the school parking lot with another male student, according to Principal Gloria Hamilton. A school security officer investigated and observed a knife inside the junior's vehicle, said Columbia County Sheriff's Capt. Steve...

...did all his work by noon, gardened, then met his friends after school. On the edge of the school property, a school security officer stopped him. Four joints were found in his pockets. He was handcuffed, charged him with possession of marijuana...

...something suspicious in his pocket, school officials said. After the 13-year-old was taken into custody by a school security officer, officials learned the pistol had been stolen from the Beazley Real Estate office in Grovetown's Liberty Hills...