...first-grade classmate will be suspended from school for 90 days, officials say. Beecher School District Superintendent Ira Rutherford recommended the three-month suspension in accordance with Michigan's school anti-weapons law, said Donald Bonato...

...counselors were on hand with teddy bears to help students and teachers get through a difficult day, Superintendent Ira Rutherford said. ''The idea is to bring kids into a situation that speaks to the classroom as they knew it before,'' Rutherford...

...Then, that little boy would have not been able to get in that door,'' she said. Schools Superintendent Ira Rutherford said school officials had agonized about what they could have done to prevent Kayla's death. ''No one had even...

...hard to erase the memory of Kayla's shooting. "I don't think it's the type of thing you move on from," said Ira Rutherford, who retired as school superintendent in June. "I think you learn to live with the pain but I don't think you...