Yet in today’s zero-tolerance world when it comes to, well, just about everything, things haven’t changed all that much for young victims of bullies. Definitions have tightened, become law, but bullying is far from over.

“Bullying’s never going to go away,” said one crusader, ex-Marine James McGibney, a dad who founded a new [...]

Conservative backers who excuse likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s alleged bullying of gay students in prep school as a “teenage prank” or part of a late 1950s-early ‘60s “rite of passage” overlook two crucial points: homophobia is not exclusively “teenage” and bullying is not gay teens’ biggest problem.

The vast majority of [...]

Mitt Romney is struggling to get beyond a story about the time he bullied a gay student at a boarding school four decades ago.

The story, reported by the Washington Post, gained traction and credibility as Romney’s high school friends spoke on [...]

The account put Mr. Romney, who has struggled on the campaign trail to cast off his rivals’ image of him as privileged and insensitive, on the defensive about events nearly 50 years ago.

The episode, reported by The Washington Post, occurred at Cranbrook, a private school that Mr. Romney, the son of [...]

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(CBS/WCCO/AP) MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota family says their 13-year-old daughter was bullied to the point she committed suicide. But on Wednesday, officials said there will be no criminal charges filed in Rachel Ehmke’s death, reports CBS Minnesota.

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