Police called to Jefferson Middle School to help quell fights

CHAMPAIGN – Champaign police were asked to intervene in two apparently unrelated student fights at Jefferson Middle School Wednesday.

Champaign police spokeswoman Rene Dunn said police were called to the school at 1115 S. Crescent Drive about 10 a.m., after two 13-year-old girls battered an assistant principal who had tried to break up a fight the teens were having.

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