Mia Meixner saw a classmate who had fallen

Mia Meixner saw a classmate who had fallen in the hallway stand up. He lifted his shirt to reveal a stab wound to his stomach.

"I saw blood gushing everywhere," said Meixner, 16. She said the stabber began sprinting down the hallway, knocking people over.

Cameron Lazor, also 16, said she saw the assailant holding two knives — described by police later as measuring 8 to 10 inches long each.

Lazor watched the attacker struggle with some boys trying to subdue him. He escaped after wounding one of the boys and continued his rampage, stabbing anyone

who did not run fast enough to escape the flailing blades.





Angels' Josh Hamilton to have thumb surgery

Outfielder suffers a torn ligament and capsule while diving headfirst into first base Tuesday and says he will have an operation Friday. He is expected to be

out six to eight weeks.

SEATTLE -- Texas General Manager Jon Daniels wanted to cover his eyes every time former Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton barreled toward first base and launched

his 6-foot-4, 240-pound frame headfirst into the bag.


"He drove me crazy when he did that," Daniels said in a 2013 interview. "You have a 240-pound guy who is as fast and as explosive as he is … you just cringe

when he dives in. You're saying, 'Get up! Get up!' But that's his style of play. I don't think you can take that from him."

Hamilton's aggressive — some would say reckless — approach usually serves him well, but his latest ill-advised and instinct-induced dive into first base

will take the hot-hitting left fielder away from the Angels for six to eight weeks.

Hamilton suffered a complete tear of the ulnar collateral ligament and a torn capsule in his left thumb diving into first base while trying to beat out a

seventh-inning grounder Tuesday night, and he said he will undergo surgery Friday.