Alaska first-graders accused of plot to poison classmate

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three first-graders in Alaska's largest city plotted to kill a fellow student with silica gel packets that the girls believed was poison and have been disciplined but not charged with any crime, authorities said Wednesday.

The three female students acknowledged that they planned to poison a female classmate, school district officials said.

Administrators and school district psychologists talked to the girls to see if they understood what they were trying to do, whether it was a prank gone wrong or if they actually meant to hurt their classmate, school district spokeswoman Heidi Embley said.

Asked if the school was getting calls from concerned parents or hearing from worried students, Embley said there was "nothing significant."