Texas schools have been adding metal detectors and armed personnel in an effort to improve campus security in response to the deadly May attack at a Houston-area high school that left eight students and two teachers dead.
Read moreAttorneys for suspected Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz lost a bid to block the release of a county-commissioned report on his tumultuous time in the local school system.
Read moreMore than 10 months after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, police say they are closing their investigation without answering the key question: What drove a gunman to unleash a hail of gunfire that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more?
Read moreFlorida student Tyah-Amoy Roberts said after spending a week in New Zealand that she’s strongly considering moving to the country for college.
Read moreThe state attorney’s office in Broward County, Florida must release surveillance footage from the Parkland school shooting, an appellate court ruled Wednesday.
Read moreSurvivors of the mass shooting at an outdoor Las Vegas country music festival this past fall say a pre-emptive lawsuit filed against them by the hotel where the shooter set up is forcing them to relive the tragedy.
Read moreOver the last week, MGM Resorts International has filed lawsuits against hundreds of victims of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, claiming it’s protected from victim lawsuits thanks to a law passed after Sept. 11 that limits liability in terror attacks. But experts say in addition to the obvious public relations problems, MGM’s “novel” legal strategy was never meant for situations like this.
Read moreIn the crucial first minutes after a gunman began shooting students and staff at a Florida high school, law enforcement’s response was hampered by quirks in the local 911 system that caused many calls from inside the school to be transferred, the chairman of a commission investigating the massacre said.
Read moreA veteran police officer’s self-described freeze in a Las Vegas hotel hallway while a gunman fired on an outdoor concert crowd is prompting a review of whether lives could have been saved if officers had acted faster to stop the deadliest mass shooting in the nation’s modern history.
Read moreA little more than a month ago, the Navy Blue Angels streaked over Spa Creek in Annapolis to celebrate another commissioning week for the U.S. Naval Academy. This week, bullets smashed through the glass doors of the Capital Gazette’s newsroom, and a lone gunman killed five and gravely injured many more.
Read moreA judge denied bail Friday to the 38-year-old Maryland man charged with murdering five the afternoon before at the Annapolis newsroom of the The Capital Gazette.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday grudgingly dismissed several lawsuits faulting the FBI’s background check system for enabling Dylann Roof to kill nine worshipers in a historically black church in 2015, lambasting the agency and a system of checks that “are hopelessly stuck in 1995.”
Read moreA patient who was shot in the leg last year at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital brought a lawsuit Monday over the deadly rampage carried out by a disgruntled former physician.
Read moreA group of survivors and family members of those killed in the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting claim in court that Orlando police officers contributed to the death and injury toll by not acting fast enough.
Read moreThe man suspected of shooting six people to death in and around Scottsdale, Arizona, before killing himself Monday targeted members of the legal and mental-health communities with connections to his divorce case.
Read moreAn Indiana middle school student armed with two handguns opened fire inside his science classroom Friday, authorities said, wounding a classmate and a teacher whose swift intervention was credited with saving lives.
Read moreThe Iraq War veteran charged with killing five elderly visitors to a South Florida airport last year pleaded guilty today to multiple federal counts as part of a long-anticipated deal with prosecutors.
Read moreThe body of a 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Texas arrived before dawn Wednesday in the port city of Karachi, where her family lived and where she was being buried.
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