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U.S. NEWS Thursday 13 sepTember 2018

Police: Teen fatally stabs love

rival at Detroit-area school

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — A “This is truly a tragedy. ... probably be charged with
17-year-old Michigan high This appears to be an al- premeditated murder in
school student could be tercation between two stu- the city’s district court.
facing a murder charge dents and we’re investigat- It wasn’t immediately clear
after police say she fatally ing to determine why this if the suspect has an at-
stabbed a classmate over occurred,” Dwyer said. torney, though she can
a guy whom both had dat- Dwyer said the girls knew request one at her initial
ed. each other and had no hearing. Michigan prose-
Warren Police Commission- history of trouble. He told cutes 17-year-olds as adults
er William Dwyer said the The Associated Press the in homicide cases. Warren police investigate a stabbing of a student at Warren
deadly clash between the suspect was upset and dis- The victim was on the Fitzgerald High School, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Warren,
two “straight-A students” turbed when the male stu- school robotics team, stu- Mich.
took place in a Fitzger- dent broke up with her and dent council, ran cross Associated Press
ald High School classroom started dating the victim, country and played in the day, but that students and procedures.
Wednesday morning. A leading to her attacking marching band, Dwyer their parents can come Dwyer said the school re-
school resource officer im- her love rival. said. during normal school hours source officer, who had
mediately began life-sav- The suspect was taken into The school was initially for support and assistance been with the department
ing procedures, but the custody at the scene, and placed on lockdown but from counselors, psycholo- for 10 years, “did every-
16-year-old victim was pro- is being held at the police students were later re- gists and social workers. thing he could to save that
nounced dead at a hos- department lockup un- leased. School officials say they are young girl.”
pital about an hour later. til the arraignment, which The district said in a state- working with police and “He’s taking it very hard
Dwyer said the teenage could happen Thursday. ment that the high school conducting an internal re- that he wasn’t able to save
suspect used a steak knife. Dwyer said the suspect will will remain closed Thurs- view that includes safety her life,” Dwyer said.q

Offensive place name to be stricken from Alaska town code

By RACHEL D’ORO The issue emerged when also the singular term for
Associated Press City Council member lice — the parasitic insect
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Thor Williams introduced known for infesting human
— A place name deemed a proposed ordinance hair.
offensive to Alaska Natives seeking to change the Williams doesn’t know
who live there is being code to require visible why or when the area got
stricken from the municipal addresses on buildings the name as a common
code of a small town in throughout the city, reference to that part of
western Alaska after local including Lousetown. town, even though there
officials took official action. The ordinance, including are no signs there with the
The section of Bethel long the call to rename name Lousetown. No one
known as Lousetown was Lousetown, was approved else seems to know the origin
noted in the municipal by a 6-0 vote at Tuesday’s of the nickname, although
code since 2001, despite City Council meeting. historian Jo Antonson
its connotations of parasitic “It’s a positive improvement said lice infestations were
lice. within our community,” a perennial problem in This Sept. 10, 2018, screenshot shows the municipal code for
The nickname will be Williams said Wednesday. western Alaska in the past. Bethel, Alaska, where the offensive term “Lousetown” is used to
removed after the Bethel “And it will be known as East Avenue is better than describe a small section of the town in southwest Alaska.
City Council agreed it East Avenue from now Lousetown, said 79-year- Associated Press
should be stricken and the on instead of known as a old Bea Kristovich, who Eskimo names, so she’s not it.”
area renamed East Avenue deplorable word.” lived there in her youth. But a fan of the new name. It’s a change traditional
for the road traversing that The word louse means she was among locals who “That’s not the right thing chief Louie Andrew, who
part of the town of about an unpleasant or thought the area should be to do,” she said of the lives in that section, can
6,000. contemptible person, it’s called one of various Yup’ik change. “I don’t think I like live with.q