of a "Death Note" that listed names of several staff members and fellow students. According to Etowah County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Lanny Handy, the notebook was discovered the previous afternoon by a staffer. The students were suspended from the county's schools, pending a juvenile court hearing. The students, their parents, and school officials had met with Handy and a junior probation officer. In Gig Harbor, Washington, one middle school student was expelled and three were suspended on May 14, 2008, for having 50 names in their own "Death Note" book, including President George W. Bush. It was reported in September 2009, that a Year Eight boy in Sydney, Australia, created a "Death Note" that along with names contained a "battle plan" detailing where bombs could be placed inside his school. In December 2009, two students at an elementary school in Oklahoma were disciplined for a "Death Note" with the names and descriptions of deaths of two girls that had angered them. A Michigan middle school student was suspended indefinitely in March 2010 for a "Death Note". In May 2010, a middle school student in Avonworth School District in Pennsylvania was suspended for a "Death Note" with names of fellow students and pop singer Justin Bieber. In February 2015, a fifth-grade student of an elementary school near Pittsburgh was suspended for owning a "Death Note" and writing other students' names in it. See also Now: Zero — A short story by J. G. Ballard with a similar premise to Death Note. Notes References External links Viz Media's Death Note website Madman Entertainment's Death Note website Death Note 2003 manga 2006 anime television series debuts 2007 Japanese novels 2007 anime films 2008 anime films 2020 manga Anime and manga controversies Censored television series Comics about death Crime in anime and manga Fictional rivalries Films directed by Tetsurō Araki Films with screenplays by Toshiki Inoue Madhouse (company) Madman Entertainment anime Madman Entertainment manga Manga adapted into films Mystery anime and manga Nippon TV original programming Occult detective anime and manga Psychological thriller anime and manga Shinigami in anime and manga Shōnen manga Shueisha manga Supernatural thriller anime and manga Television censorship in China Viz Media anime Viz Media manga Works banned in China Works banned in Russia