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NY town puts police-in-school program after accidental gun discharge

HIGHLAND -- A upstate New York town that began assigning an armed police officer to guard a high school in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has suspended the program after an officer accidentally discharged his pistol in a hallway while classes were in session.

Lt. James Janso of the Lloyd police department told media outlets Officer Sean McCutcheon will be suspended while an investigation...

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