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MLive.com
April 26, 2018
Teen facing charges for Snapchat post threatening school shooting. Updated April 25, 2018 at 2:04 PM ; Posted April 25, 2018 at 11:30 AM. A juvenile petition for charges was filed against the 15-year-old boy who made a threat of violence in Hanover-Horton schools on April 17, 2018.( MLive Media Group ). Comment.
Sun Sentinel
April 26, 2018
In an attempt to help prevent future school shootings, legislation was introduced Wednesday to expand the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center. The legislation is titled the “Eagles Act of 2018,” in honor of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagles. The high school was the site ofÃâà...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
April 26, 2018
Jack Sawyer, who is accused of planning a shooting at Fair Haven High School, has his bail lowered after felony charges in the case were dropped. Glenn Russell, The Burlington Free Press. by Taboola by Taboola. AD CONTENT. Throne: Free Online Game Ãâ÷ Play this for 1 minute and see why everyone isÃâà...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
April 26, 2018
Jack Sawyer, 18, of Poultney appears in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, for a hearing to determine whether bail or conditions of release should be set for Sawyer, who the state says was planning a school shooting at Fair Haven Union High School. (POOL photo by RyanÃâà...
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
April 26, 2018
The senators want to see more funding for the U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center, or NTAC, which was established in 1998 one year before the Columbine High School shooting. The center has developed a threat assessment model used by law enforcement to identify potentialÃâà...
WESH Orlando
April 26, 2018
Gov. Rick Scott is visiting Forest High School in Ocala on Wednesday to give thanks to law enforcement and staff who responded to a shooting on campus last week. Among those honored was Deputy Jim Long, who was the resource officer at Forest High School. Advertisement. Long “did not hesitate.
WEKU
April 25, 2018
The Commonwealth's Attorney said Davis may not have to serve the entire sentence if he is considered eligible for a short sentence, known as “shock probation” or parole. Davis' made the comment before the school shootings at Marshall County High School in Kentucky and at Marjory Stoneman DouglasÃâà...
10TV
April 25, 2018
MIAMI (AP) — Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz should continue to be represented in the death penalty case by a public defender at taxpayer expense, a judge ruled Tuesday. Cruz has only about $28,000 in assets, and most of that he cannot immediately access, Broward County Circuit JudgeÃâà...
Cincinnati.com
April 25, 2018
Update, 8 p.m.: Two years after a school shooting devastated their community, Madison Township school board members voted unanimously to allow armed staff in the school district – despite objections from one of the students who was shot in 2016. Earlier reporting: Arming teachers. It's a controversialÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 25, 2018
Rows of orange sticky notes lined walls and columns in some of the buildings on Waubonsee Community College's Sugar Grove campus, each note bearing a name and age. They were names Waubonsee student Dayton LeClercq had identified as belonging to people killed in school shootings since theÃâà...
BBC News
April 25, 2018
Shanti Viswanathan, a US teacher of Indian origin, saved the lives of her students during the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February. In her first media interview, ... What does she think of US President Donald Trump's proposal that arming teachers could prevent school shootings? "A good guy with a gun canÃâà...
Dallas Observer
April 24, 2018
The UT-Dallas database uses different tools to research and organize the data, such as open-source protocols from internet archives, special algorithms, independent verification and cross-referenced examinations. A school shooting in the database is classified as the discharging of a firearm that resultedÃâà...
Big Think (blog)
April 24, 2018
As the reverberations of the Parkland school shooting continue, many are wondering if any advances in gun legislation will be made. As debates are waged over the significance of gun sales and mental illness, a new study, published in Journal of Child and Family Studies, examines the differencesÃâà...
Deadline
April 19, 2018
Freeform and ABC News' Nightline have teamed on For Our Lives: Parkland, a documentary that follows the lives of student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL after the February 14 mass shooting. The hourlong special will air at 10 PM, April 30 on Freeform. Related.
Science Daily
April 19, 2018
More people have died or been injured in mass school shootings in the US in the past 18 years than in the entire 20th century. In a new study published in Springer's Journal of Child and Family Studies, researchers have reviewed the history of mass school shootings in the US and found some alarmingÃâà...
NBC4 Washington
April 19, 2018
The school resource officer who brought a quick end to a deadly shooting at a Maryland high school received a valor award Thursday and recalled his response to the incident, saying his training kicked in immediately. "I know everybody says 'hero, hero,' but I wouldn't call myself a hero," Deputy First ClassÃâà...
WRAL.com
April 19, 2018
By LISA RATHKE, Associated Press. MONTPELIER, Vt. — A judge is now open to considering a request to dismiss charges — including attempted aggravated murder — against a Vermont teen accused of planning to shoot up his former high school. The judge said Wednesday he was vacating his earlierÃâà...
WDTN.com
April 19, 2018
PARKLAND, Florida (CNN) - Two students who survived the Parkland high school massacre are putting their story in print. David Hogg, who emerged as one of the more vocal teens from the tragedy is writing a book called "Never Again." HIs younger sister, Lauren, will co-write the book. The book willÃâà...
WYSO
April 19, 2018
Hundreds of young people, teachers and parents are expected to gather Friday for another National School Walkout in protest of school shootings. ... will also commemorate the 13 victims of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, which occurred before many of the Dayton student organizers were born.
BurlingtonFreePress.com
April 18, 2018
A judge has set bail at $100,000 for Jack Sawyner, a Poultney teen suspected of plotting to carry out a shooting at Fair Haven Union High School. Here's what we know now. RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS. by Taboola by Taboola. AD CONTENT. Comparisons.org Ãâ÷ Best & Worst Refinance MortgageÃâà...
ArtsATL
April 18, 2018
A play certainly can't be expected to give us all the answers to an issue as weighty and complex as school shootings. But we're still left with remarkably few insights or new angles of thought. Mothers love their children, and school shootings are tragic; these are ideas that come across powerfully in the play.
BurlingtonFreePress.com
April 17, 2018
A judge has set bail at $100,000 for a Poultney teen suspected of plotting to carry out a shooting at Fair Haven Union High School. Kelly Green, the lawyer for Jack Sawyer, 18, says bail likely would not be posted Tuesday. She added that she is going to review the decision, and then she will have a clearerÃâà...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
April 17, 2018
... have a login? Activate your digital access. VT school shooting case: What we know. CLOSE. A judge has set bail at $100,000 for Jack Sawyner, a Poultney teen suspected of plotting to carry out a shooting at Fair Haven Union High School. Here's what we know now. RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS.
Education Week (blog)
April 17, 2018
Principals and Superintendents Who've Been Through School Shootings Tell Congress What They Need ... Additional money to help districts recover in the aftermath of a school shooting. ... Nearly six years later, teachers still call him whenever there is another school shooting in the U.S., Roberts said.
KPIC News
April 17, 2018
Today 4/17/18 around 8:45 a.m. we received notification from Winston Police that they had discovered a hand written threat of a school shooting/bombing, on a restroom wall at a Community Park. School District Administration has implemented a response in compliance with the District Crisis Management Plan.
San Mateo Daily Journal
April 17, 2018
With a rash of fake violent threats growing more common at local campuses, school officials are balancing an obligation to preserve student safety against their need to maintain a focused learning environment. San Mateo County school officials claim anonymous hoaxes threatening attacks are on the riseÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
April 17, 2018
Vine said that after the Parkland shootings, students are "hyper-aware" of the potential for school shootings. "That fear is always there," she said. The Eaton event was scheduled Tuesday to accommodate students who had school-related conflicts, Vine said. It is the first of numerous events planned locallyÃâà...
CBS Miami
April 16, 2018
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter. FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) — New reports, released by Coral Springs Police Monday, give more in-depth details of what officers encountered when they first arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the day of the February massacre that left 17Ãâà...
The Courier-Journal
April 15, 2018
Student calls for gun reform following the school shooting in Florida have sparked a national conversation. But at the Kentucky Exposition Center over the weekend, very different discussions were playing out at the United States Concealed Carry Association's meeting. In one lecture, a firearms instructorÃâà...
Vox
March 22, 2018
It was far from the first school shooting, but the details around the attack — the huge arsenal of weapons (which also included propane bombs and pipe bombs), the much-discussed role social isolation may have played in driving the killers' actions, panic about the alleged influence of video games andÃâà...
KTIC
March 22, 2018
Back in 1998, the Jonesboro attack was the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, with four students and a teacher, 32-year-old Shannon Wright, killed and 10 others injured. Now, 20 years later, the numbers have continued to rise. There have been eight deadlier school shootings in the past twoÃâà...
ABC News
March 22, 2018
... for Our Lives events across the country in support of school safety, spearheaded by the survivors of last month's Parkland, Florida, school shooting. What many of the participants may not realize is that Saturday is also, coincidentally, the 20th anniversary of one of the deadliest school shootings of its time.
Chicago Tribune
March 21, 2018
In the latest school shooting in America, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. This time, the shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed. Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who had some type of relationship with the shooter was critically wounded, and a 14-year-old boy also was wounded.
CNN
March 21, 2018
(CNN) There's big breaking news overnight in the bombings in Austin, Texas. Let's get straight to it -- and to what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.)Ãâà...
CNN
March 20, 2018
The incident is the 17th school shooting in the United States since January 1, according to CNN research. "This is what ... Several students from Stoneman Douglas tweeted about the Great Mills school shooting on Tuesday, offering their thoughts and calling for an end to gun violence in schools. The wordsÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 14, 2018
While dogs are playing a key role in the wake of this school shooting, they also could prevent some school shootings from occurring in the first place by detecting guns and ammunition in schools before they can be used. This is is a proposal that could generate the political compromise necessary to passÃâà...
NBC2 News
March 14, 2018
A dreamcatcher handed from school to school after a shooting is making its way from Townville, South Carolina to Parkland, Florida. The Superintendent of Townville Elementary School will deliver the framed dreamcatcher to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were gunned down byÃâà...
Idaho Statesman
March 14, 2018
Top Idaho House and Senate leaders who spoke about school shootings Tuesday agreed the state has not done enough to address the problem and protect students. The lawmakers' statements at a lunch forum with the media were a stark difference from Gov. Butch Otter's remarks in February, when heÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
March 14, 2018
The Swain school system lockdowns came eight days after the Parkland, Florida, shooting left 17 students and staff dead, but it also follows decades of growing angst over school shootings since Columbine in 1999. If Columbine High changed the game in making people feel vulnerable in places meant toÃâà...
CNN
March 14, 2018
Javon's mother Mariama Davies was moved to tears by her son's actions, and by the fact that he was so used to the idea of school shootings that he had planned for the unthinkable. "It's really hard, because he's so young," she said. "He just shouldn't have to go through that period because -- for what?
The Denver Post
March 14, 2018
19, 2018 file photo, Nikolas Cruz, accused of murdering 17 people in the Florida high school shooting, appears in court for a status hearing in Fort Lauderdale, ... the wishes of the 17 families whose children were killed and that time is better spent finding solutions to the problem of mass school shootings.
New York Times
March 14, 2018
Long before the attack in Parkland, Fla., the 2014 discipline guidelines, which encouraged schools to examine their discipline disparities and to take stock of discriminatory policies, were already on Ms. DeVos's radar — but not because they were seen as a possible culprit in the next school shooting.
The Guardian
March 14, 2018
Families of the 16 children and teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre 22 years ago today send a message to survivors of last month's Parkland school shooting in Florida, who are planning a protest to push for US gun law reform. The Dunblane shooting led the UK to bring in some of the strictest firearmsÃâà...
ABC News
March 13, 2018
This undated photo provided Monday, March 12, 2018, by Shenise Abercrombie shows her niece Courtlin Arrington, a Huffman High School student that was fatally shot on Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala. The aunt of the 17-year-old killed by a fellow student at the Alabama school last week has called forÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 13, 2018
A judge on Monday ordered the release of video footage expected to shine another spotlight on the Broward Sheriff's Office response in the initial minutes of the Parkland school shooting that killed 17 people. The video clips, however, won't be released until noon Thursday at the earliest. That delay was toÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 13, 2018
The public should be allowed to see the security video filmed outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during last month's shooting, a judge ruled Monday. The South Florida Sun Sentinel and other media organizations sued the Broward County Sheriff's Office last month for access to the video,Ãâà...
The Verge
March 13, 2018
In a video posted today to his channel, YouTuber Jake Paul speaks with survivors of the tragic school shooting that took place last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as state senator Marco Rubio, in an awkward and at times tone-deaf new video that he hopes will help “activateÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 12, 2018
Teller County man arrested over school shooting threat had aborted fetus in his bathroom, records show. Jason Scott Smith remains in jail on a $50,000 cash-only bondÃâà...
HuffPost
March 12, 2018
6th Grader Writes Heartbreaking Will In Case Of School Shooting. Javon Davies said he wrote the letter giving away his cat and video games “just in case something happened.” By Alanna VagianosÃâà...
NPR
March 12, 2018
MOORE: What are we teaching them right now? Mostly, we're we're teaching them about violence and what could happen. They're not even able to learn. SIEGLER: Moore says one of her biggest fears is that nothing will change and the school shootings will keep happening. Kirk Siegler, NPR News, AztecÃâà...
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