• A 14-year-old middle school student hanged herself inside a California high school, just an hour after she reportedly ran away from home, police said.
• The body of the teen — whose name was not released — was found by cops on the second floor of Lindhurst High School in the town of Olivehurst, after she had reportedly vanished from her nearby home at about 6 a.m., officials said.
• “It does appear to be a suicide,” Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson told reporters. “It’s an active, ongoing investigation.”

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