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Tuesday, February 28, 2012  Marquette City Police and high school are prepared for any sort of school violence

Friday, March 04, 2011  Police say still no idea why 15-year-old held class hostage

Thursday, March 03, 2011  Area school staff must stay safe and calm during a school shootout.  Law enforcement officials trained them today to keep themselves and kids safe

Wednesday, February 23, 2011  Lainie Wells spends most of her days alone in an empty room trying to connect with her husband--an American hostage being held by Arab terrorists in Beirut

Monday, December 06, 2010  It was held in a school auditorium in Michigan, just across the river from the Wisconsin town where the hostage drama took place

Sunday, December 05, 2010  A funeral service was held Sunday for the Marinette, Wisconsin boy who held his social studies class hostage before taking his own life

Saturday, December 04, 2010  After the hostage situation in Marinette on Monday and bomb threats in Stephenson and Menominee, local schools, like Escanaba, are getting prepared without going too far

Thursday, December 02, 2010  The family of the teenager who took his own life after holding his high school classmates hostage in Marinette has donated the boy's organs

Wednesday, December 01, 2010  The call was made by Principal Corry Lambie after he had learned that 10th grader Samuel Hengel had taken a class hostage

Wednesday, December 01, 2010  The Marinette High School hostage situation earlier this week sent chills up the spines of students and parents throughout the country

Tuesday, November 30, 2010  Tuesday police updated the total number of hostages taken during Monday's standoff at Marinette High School--25 students and one teacher.  All were eventually released unharmed

Tuesday, November 30, 2010  'Details at uppermichiganssource.com'

Tuesday, November 30, 2010  Marinette Police Chief Jeffrey Skorik confirms that the armed student has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Thursday, October 08, 2009  He will spend a maximum of ten years in prison.

Friday, May 22, 2009  The hostages testified they feared for their lives.