When Bullying Becomes Assault:  An apparent increase in violence between students has resulted in aggressive enforcement of anti-bullying laws in dozens of states, with police being called to investigate everything from cyber-bullying to sexual assault according to this AP story by Christine Armario. "It's starting to become more physical, more sexual, and it's not just emotional bullying like we've seen in the past," said an Ohio attorney representing a high school basketball player attacked by three teammates while waiting for a bus to take them to practice.  The story provides some other examples, including the sexual assault of a Tampa middle school student with a hockey stick. The story cites a U.S. Education Department and U.S. Justice Department study that found 32% of students between 12 and 18 experienced bullying during the 2007 school year. 

Missing Girl Victim of Serial Killer:  Police now believe that Amber Swartz-Garcia, a 7-year old Bay Area girl who went missing twenty-one years ago, was murdered by Curtis Dean Anderson, who died in 2007 while serving a prison sentence for murdering two other young girls.  San Francisco Chronicle writer Henry K. Lee reports that, the month before he died of liver and kidney failure, Anderson confessed to kidnapping Amber from her front yard in Pinole, CA and killing her in a Tucson motel room.  The little girl's body was never found.  In an earlier interview Anderson bragged to a Chronicle reporter that he had killed "many girls, and you'll never find them all."  According to a source familiar with the Anderson investigation, he is also a suspect in the disappearance of a young girl in Arizona.