Six Charged as Conspirators in Miss. High School Slayings

Six "quiet kids," all current or former students at Pearl High School in Mississippi, were charged last week by police in a plot to kill fellow students.

Police were led to the circle of friends by their investigation into the Oct. 1 shooting rampage at the high school in which the alleged student gunman's ex-girlfriend and another teenager died and seven more were wounded.

A 16-year-old sophomore, Luke Woodham, was charged in the killings and in the stabbing death of his...

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