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A 9-year-old Bremerton boy appeared in court dressed in an orange prison jump suit after a gun he brought to school in his backpack went off and critically wounded an 8-year-old classmate. The boy was held on $50,000 bail on charges of third-degree assault, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm on school grounds. The boy faces up to 30 days detention, a year of probation and 150 hours of community service for each count.

U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, deferred a plea in a milit...