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Marinette Hostage Situation - An armed student burst into a high school in Wisconsin and seized a teacher and 23 students, police said today. An official at Marinette high school called the authorities just before 4pm local time to say a student had taken over a classroom. A choral teacher, Bonita Weydt, said she was talking with a teacher in another classroom when the headmaster, Corry Lambie, came in and told them both to leave immediately. "I said, 'Corry, what's going on?' and he said, 'Get out of the building,'" Weydt said. Eric Burmeister, a Marinette county emergency official, said parents were being asked to go to the county courthouse. A woman at a hair salon across the street from the school told Reuters by telephone that the school was surrounded by police cars and fire engines and the car park nearby was filled with people, many of them students. Marinette's police chief, Jeff Skorik, said the hostage taker is a male student with...