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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

Today is September 15th, Friday. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. A fight inside Abington Senior High School on Thursday morning

ended with eight teenagers arrested. There were no serious injuries thanks to the quick response

of Abington Police's school resource officers. The teens face serious charges including riot

and simple assault. Abington's police chief Patrick Malloy says the fight is one of many between

the same two groups of students. Many of the fights stem from social media posts and escalate to more serious crimes.

Abington police said one of the ongoing arguments between the groups is over the death of 16-year-old

Abington High School student Kavan Abraham, who was shot to death in Philadelphia in May.

Malloy and Pastor Marshall Mitchell of the Salem Baptist Church are working together and bringing

in community mentors specifically at the request of parents of many of the students involved

in the fights.

It was about a year ago.

Maybe a little bit longer I was talking to a few police officers and they kind of opened up my

eyes to the fact that so much of this stuff, as street crime and this and brawls like this,

starts on social media.

And I wonder if there are officials at any of the schools

that may be part of their job is to monitor.

But I don't know how, I mean,

you're talking about schools that have, you know, hundreds

and sometimes, you know, thousands of students,

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