School shootings

Biden gives video address to graduating Parkland students

Jun. 08, 2021 09:00 PM EDT
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden, in a surprise video address to a Tuesday commencement ceremony, said graduating seniors who were freshmen when a...

James "Lap" Baker, a 1970 Jackson State College graduate, speaks on May 13, 2021, in Jackson, Miss., about the May 15, 1970, incident where white local police and Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers marched onto campus of the historically Black school and opened fire on students, claiming they had seen a sniper. Baker is among about 70 graduates being honored as the school, now called Jackson State University, is holding a graduation ceremony 51 years after it canceled the 1970 commencement after the violence. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

A university honors its grads 51 years after police shooting

By Emily Wagster Pettus May. 14, 2021 01:23 PM EDT

In this April 27, 2021 photo, students walk out of school at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn. Members of the Black community in Knoxville, Tennessee, are calling for reforms to dispel longstanding disparities between Blacks and whites. They say that is one of the steps that needs to be taken to reduce increasing violence that has claimed the lives of five high school-age students this year. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi)

Knoxville's Black community protests after student deaths

By Kimberlee Kruesi May. 06, 2021 12:58 PM EDT

Knoxville police work the scene of a shooting at Austin-East Magnet High School Monday, April 12, 2021, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Mayor's request for release of school shooting video denied

By Adrian Sainz Apr. 15, 2021 12:26 PM EDT

Officer wounded in school wasn't shot by student's gun

By Adrian Sainz Apr. 14, 2021 06:30 PM EDT

Resource officer shot at Tennessee high school recovering

By Adrian Sainz Apr. 13, 2021 11:48 AM EDT

Police work in the area of Austin-East Magnet High School after a reported shooting Monday, April 12, 2021. Authorities say multiple people including a police officer have been shot at the school. (Brianna Paciorka/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)

Student fires at officers at Tennessee school, is killed

By Travis Loller And Adrian Sainz Apr. 12, 2021 07:29 PM EDT

Bill alters gun storage requirements for unsupervised minors

By Jacob Steinberg Of Capital News Service Mar. 30, 2021 07:02 PM EDT
Maryland legislators have introduced a bill that would expand prohibitions and penalties in an effort to prevent an unsupervised minor from accessing a firearm...

Tanice Cisneros walks by an anti-gun sign on the way to leave flowers for her friend, Rikki Olds on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Olds was a King Soopers employee that was killed at the Boulder King Soopers on Monday. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)

Mass shooters exploited gun laws, loopholes before carnage

By Michael R. Sisak Mar. 25, 2021 12:18 AM EDT

This photo tweeted by the Boulder Police Department late Monday, March 22, 2021, shows Officer Eric Talley. Police say multiple people have been killed in a shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo., including Talley. (Courtesy of Boulder Police Department via AP)

Colorado suspect got assault weapon 6 days before shooting

By Patty Nieberg, Thomas Peipert And Colleen Slevin Mar. 23, 2021 10:18 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, Dimitrios Pagourtzis is escorted by Galveston County Sheriff's Office deputies into a courtroom at the Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, Texas. Pagourtzis, is charged with capital murder for the May 18, 2018, attack at Santa Fe High School that killed 10. Pagourtzis' attorney said Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, that his client will remain at a state mental health facility for up to another 12 months as doctors say he remains incompetent to stand trial, He has been hospitalized since December 2019. (Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County Daily News via AP, File)

Accused Texas school shooter to remain at state hospital

Juan A. Lozano Feb. 23, 2021 04:01 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Feb. 17, 2021 06:02 PM EST
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 17 The Dallas Morning...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press Feb. 17, 2021 04:18 PM EST
Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ Feb. 13 The Miami Herald on marking three years...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Feb. 15, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Monday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2021. There are 319 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day. ...

FILE- In this Feb. 21, 2018 file photo, Aria Siccone, 14, a student survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, cries as she recounts her story from that day, while state Rep. Barrinton Russell, D-Dist. 95, comforts her, as they talk to legislators at the state Capitol regarding gun control legislation, in Tallahassee, Fla. Even before the COVID pandemic upended the lives of millions of high school students, forever altering treasured milestones, homecomings, proms and graduation ceremonies, the Douglas high seniors were inextricably linked by tragedy. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

For Parkland seniors, high school years bookended by tragedy

By Kelli Kennedy Feb. 13, 2021 08:47 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2018, file photo, an early morning fog rises where 17 memorial crosses were placed for the 17 students and faculty killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. It’s been more than 1,000 days since a gunman with an AR-15 rifle burst in and opened fire. And yet, with Valentine’s Day on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, marking the three-year milestone, the death penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz is in limbo. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

3 years later, Parkland school shooting trial still in limbo

By Curt Anderson Feb. 11, 2021 09:48 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2021 06:14 PM EST
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 3 The Miami Herald on the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pelosi denounces GOP leaders over Georgia lawmaker's posts

By Will Weissert And Brian Slodysko Jan. 28, 2021 12:13 AM EST

FILE - In this July 17, 2006, file photo, James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, speaks in Seattle. If there's one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it's this: The number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade. Fox, said he hopes the lull will help break the cycle of the past few years and help tamp down on mass shootings. The so-called "contagion effect" suggests that the more we hear about and talk about mass slayings, the more gunmen fixate on carrying out attacks. (AP Photo/Ralph Radford, File)

In a year of pain, one silver lining: fewer mass shootings

By Lisa Marie Pane Dec. 29, 2020 04:06 PM EST

Sandy Hook victims remembered in online vigil on anniversary

Dec. 14, 2020 01:20 PM EST
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The 20 children and six educators killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School were remembered Monday on the eighth anniversary...