The town contains one high school, Chelmsford High School, serving grades nine through twelve to 1, 641 students as of 2008 – 09.

All expenditures considered, the Chelmsford public schools district spent $ 10, 070 per pupil as of 2008, which was lower than the state average of $ 12, 449.

Innovation Academy moved to the town in of September 2008 from neighboring Chelmsford.

The military and secure communications division of Marconi was merged into Selex Communications was based at the New Street factory however they vacated the site in April 2008 with the remaining operations moved to nearby Basildon. This brought to an end of more than 100 years of the Marconi name in Chelmsford.

It reopened in 2008, having been closed in 2004, after the new Chelmsford depot opened.

" Although Shed Seven did not undertake a further tour of their own, 2008 saw the band return to two of the UK's biggest festivals ; T in the Park in Balado, Scotland, and V in both Chelmsford and Staffordshire.

This thought had originated due to the idea that sign language hinders the development of an oral language in deaf children ( Mayberry, 2008 ).

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

The Falcons had the NFL's second best winning percentage at home during the period of 2008 to 2010 with a. 833 percentage.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

The development of the chemistry of alkaloids was accelerated by the emergence of spectroscopic and chromatographic methods in the 20th century, so that by 2008 more than 12, 000 alkaloids had been identified.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

Both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility had announced that they would observe the same shutdown guidelines as in the United States, and decommissioned their AMPS networks in 2008.

It had been hoped that patient adherence to antipsychotics would be higher with the atypicals, but a 2008 review found that the data have failed to substantiate the notion that novel antipsychotic drug use leads to improved medication compliance and favorable clinical outcomes.

By expanding the conditions for which they were indicated, Astrazeneca's Seroquel and Eli Lilly's Zyprexa had become the biggest selling antipsychotics in 2008 with global sales of $ 5. 5 billion and $ 5. 4 billion respectively.

" He had the touch ," Frazetta said of Capp in 2008.

In Flanders, VRT channels Een, Ketnet / Canvas ) had a combined market share of 40. 0 % in 2008, VMMa channels ( VTM, 2BE and JIM ) 27. 27 %, SBS Belgium channels ( VT4 and Vijf TV ) 10. 91 % and Media ad Infinitum ( Vitaya and Vitaliteit ) 3, 64 %.

In 2008 Bulgaria had 204 airports, 127 of which had paved runways.

On July 9, 2008, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton posted a video to YouTube claiming that they had discovered the body of a dead Sasquatch in a forest in northern Georgia.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

The fourth revamp, which happened with the issue dated 18 October 2008 had been the most major revamp to date.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

As of 2008, the country had an estimated 987 km of gauge track.

In total, there were 34 airports in 2008, only 10 of which had paved runways.

As of September 2008, only one law remained to be approved, but was delayed because it had a faulty procedure for approval.

By 2008, numerous service areas and petrol stations had been constructed along all Croatian motorways.

In April 2008, King spoke out against HB 1423, a bill pending in the Massachusetts state legislature that would restrict or ban the sale of violent video games to anyone under the age of 18.

According to the Congressional Quarterly Press ' 2008 City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America, Virginia Beach, Virginia ranks 311th in violent crime amount 385 cities containing more than 75, 000 inhabitants.

In a 2008 estimate, it was found that Idaho Falls had a violent crime rate of 0. 9 times the national average and a property crime rate of 0. 97 times the national average.

On February 5, 2008, Kentucky and surrounding states were subject to many violent tornadoes with some of them in Western Kentucky.

In 2008, the violent crime Rate for Lowell was 1, 126. 3 per 100, 000 of the population, ranking it the 7th most violent city in Massachusetts right ahead of Boston with 1, 104 per 100, 000 .. Lowell's crime rate has dropped tremendously since the 1990's

The violent crime rate has gone down 57 % in 2008 from what it was in 2000.

Between 1999 and 2008, several violent tornadoes struck large portions of the city including the downtown area, which was devastated in May 2003 by an F4 tornado.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama during the 2008 violent protests in Tibet and aftermath said: " The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world.

* Fallout ( Channel 4 drama ), a 2008 feature length television drama about teenage violent crime

Enough is Enough backed an April 2008 report titled The Rap on Rap by the Parents Television Council that claimed that BET rap programming, which they believed contained gratuitous sexual, violent, and profane content, was targeting children and teens.

52. 4 % of sentenced prisoners in state prisons at yearend 2008 were in for violent crimes.

Albany received a record amount of rain on 20 November 2008 when violent storms swept across the Great Southern region.

* Vicky Cristina Barcelona ( Woody Allen, 2008 ): depicts a dysfunctional, sometimes violent relationship between two Spanish artists that is finally brought in to balance with the addition of Cristina.

The proposed removal of term limits was among the grievances expressed during violent protests in late February 2008.

On July 1, 2008 a large and violent protest took place outside the building of MPRP.

The crime rate for 2008 was 101. 2 ( per 1, 000 persons ) for violent crimes, and 68. 5 ( per 1, 000 persons ) for property crimes, both numbers above the average for the NWT of 64. 8 and 68. 5.

On Peace Day 2008 the UN announced a 70 % reduction in violent incidents in Afghanistan.

On September 28, 2008, Boldin was carted off the field after a violent helmet-to-helmet collision in the end zone with 27 seconds remaining in the Cardinals ’ 56 – 35 loss to the New York Jets.

Amid a violent crisis over the results, with supporters of Kibaki and Odinga disputing the outcome, Kibaki appointed Musyoka as Vice-President and Minister of Home Affairs on January 8, 2008.

The statue was struck by lightning during a violent electrical storm on Sunday, February 10, 2008 and suffered some damage on the fingers, head and eyebrows.

On 29 May 2008 Castle Cary ( and a large part of Somerset ) were hit by a rapid flash flood after a violent downpour shortly after midday.

Because Bless Me, Ultima contains adult language, and because some of the content is violent and contains sexual references, it has been included in the list of most commonly challenged books in the U. S. in 2008.

In 2008 Mukhtaran story was the subject of a documentary by Catherine Ulmer López focusing on the aftermath of the rape especially on Mukhtaran's schools as well as an important look inside Pakistan, " where the impact of Islamic fundamentalism is revealed and how women are fighting its oppressive and violent impact.