The parents of a teenager who shot and killed four high school students in Oxford, Michigan in November 2021 have been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison each.
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The heaviest President was William...
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After the battle, at...
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Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens.
In 380 B.C., Plato wrote The Republic, where he described in Books 8 and 9:
"States are as the...
Ethan Crumbley, 17, the teenager who plead guilty to murdering four students and injuring seven others during a school shooting in 2021 is eligible for a life sentence without parole.
