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Hero Fla. School Board Guard: 'I Thought I Let Them Down'

(Dec. 16) -- Weeping hero security guard Mike Jones said today he feared he'd failed his Florida school board colleagues when a gunman opened fire during a public meeting. "I thought I'd let them down when he started shooting," Jones said in an emotional news conference in Panama City, Fla., where Tuesday's videotaped...

911 Call Captures Moments of Terror in Fla. School Board Shooting

(Dec. 16) -- While Clay Duke held members of a Florida school board at gunpoint, a terrified woman described the hostages' ordeal to a 911 dispatcher as she watched it unfold live on a video feed. The unidentified woman fled the room as Duke took hostages during Tuesday's meeting of the Bay City School Board in Panama...

Police: Florida School Board Gunman Planned Attack

(Dec. 15) -- Clay Duke, the Florida gunman who opened fire at a school board, ranted against the rich in what appears to have been a final manifesto on Facebook. Duke, a 56-year-old ex-convict, was mentally ill and had been planning the attack for some time, police said today. Dec. 14, the date of the shooting, was...

Staring at Death: 'God Blocked the Bullet,' Fla. School Official Says

(Dec. 15) -- With a heavily armed ex-convict shooting directly at him, a Florida schools superintendent was prepared to die but said today he was saved when "God blocked the bullet." "I was very confident that I was going to get shot. I wasn't pulling for it, but I was ready if that was going to happen," Bay City Schools...

Police: Man Fires at Florida School Board; Kills Self

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (Dec. 15) -- A gunman who fired point-blank at school board members before fatally shooting himself had for much of the meeting sat with the rest of the audience, listening to routine business. As the board was in the midst of a discussion Tuesday, Clay A. Duke walked to the front of the room, spray...

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05/30/12 $27 million school technology upgrades complete Source: News Herald - Panama City FL Students set off confetti poppers as teacher Keilan McWhorter powered on the interactive whiteboard for his freshman biology class at Rutherford High School on Wednesday afternoon.
05/23/12 Bozeman School Day Change Could Cost District Source: NBC - WJHG News Channel 7 - Panama City FL Bay County- For the past two years many of the 1,200 plus Deane Bozeman School students from Pre-K to high school have been riding the school buses together.
05/23/12 Bay schools consider cellphone, tablet use in class Source: TMCnet Personal electronic mobile devices currently banned from schools might be making an appearance in select classrooms under a revised School Board policy discussed Tuesday.
05/21/12 School Board to consider transportation budget, MKL... Source: News Herald - Panama City FL The former Margaret K. Lewis School site will be up for lease Tuesday to a new charter school, pending approval from Bay District School Board members.
05/15/12 State lowers passing FCAT writing score Source: News Herald - Panama City FL The state Board of Education approved an emergency rule Tuesday that will lower the passing grade of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test for writing.

Background on bill husfelt

The 2010 Panama City school board shootings occurred on December 14, 2010 in Panama City, Florida. In the attack, a disgruntled individual, Clay Allen Duke, fired more than a dozen shots at six Bay District School board members, but missed them all, including the superintendent.

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