8-year-old boy at school slashes students with knife

Authorities say an 8-year-old student took a kitchen knife to a central Minnesota elementary school and attacked three other children. Chief Perry Beise says the victims aged 8, 9 and 13 suffered “superficial wounds” requiring stitches in the attack before classes started Monday at Pleasantview Elementary in Sauk Rapids. No one else was injured. School Superintendent Bruce Watkins says the boy lashed out at the other students until an adult intervened.