Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

President Joe Biden has told graduating seniors who were freshmen when a mass shooting left 17 people dead at their Florida high school that they’ve turned pain into purpose and darkness into light

Seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., received a surprise video message from President Joe Biden during their graduation ceremony Tuesday. “This class lost a piece of its soul,” said Biden, referring to the mass shooting that left 17 people dead at the Florida high school in 2018.

Three years after arguably the worst tragedy in the history of South Florida, the lives of 17 people killed during a shooting inside a Broward County school were honored Sunday. Events were held across the county to pay tribute to the lives taken – 14 students and three staff members – during the Feb. 14th, 2018, mass shooting inside Parkland’s…

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Class of 2021 has endured a high school experience bookended by tragedies

Days before the three-year mark of the Parkland school massacre that left 17 dead and almost two dozen injured came more difficult news for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas families fighting to hold the Broward County school district partly accountable for the shooting.

If you’re familiar with video games, you know how hyper-realistic people look, making you wonder if they’re animated or taken from actual video. Now, that artificial intelligence technology has been used to create a video of a young man who died two years ago. “Yo, it’s me, it’s Guac, I’ve been gone for two years and nothing’s changed, bro,”...

A Florida couple regrets ever taking in a disturbed teenager in the months before he was accused of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

For those who were there, they know it and they feel it: the special bond among first responders who deployed to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.   “The call came out over the radio, shots fired at MSD,” recalled Lt. Ed Derosa of the Coral Springs Police Department. “And I kind of did the double take…

The trial of Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz was delayed Thursday until at least next summer, when he will face a death penalty case stemming from the February 2018 massacre that left 17 people dead.

Most students who committed deadly school attacks over the past decade were badly bullied, had a history of disciplinary trouble and their behavior concerned others but was never reported, according to a U.S. Secret Service study released Thursday. In at least four cases, attackers wanted to emulate other school shootings, including those at Columbine High School in Colorado, Virginia Tech...

Researchers from the Aspen Institute are raising concerns about a Florida initiative meant to collect and collate huge amounts of data on schoolchildren in the state, according to a report released Thursday. Florida schools are now required to collect, store and crunch data on students in the name of predicting school shootings. The Florida Schools Safety Portal, or FSSP, executive...

Court records show that 22-year-old Brandon Fleury was found guilty in Fort Lauderdale federal court Tuesday of cyberstalking and transmitting a kidnap threat. The Santa Ana, California, man faces up to 20 years in prison at his Dec. 2 sentencing.

High school and middle school students are participating in active shooter drills across Montgomery County, in what MCPS Chief Safety Officer Ed Clarke calls a “lockdown with options.”

Lawmakers around the country are making a renewed push to ban high-capacity magazines that gunmen have used in many recent massacres, allowing them to inflict mass casualties at a startling rate before police can stop the carnage. Nine states have passed laws restricting magazine capacity to 10 to 15 bullets, and the Democratic-led U.S. House plans to consider a similar...

A shotgun-wielding suspect injured an officer who responded to a domestic violence report Saturday. Officers then found two dead people, a dead pit bull, several rifles and what appeared to be an explosive device.

Investigators say a Florida mother was so upset that her children were rezoned to a new school that she threatened to shoot up the new school just as the new academic year is beginning.

Walmart is removing from its stores nationwide signs, displays or videos that depict violence following a mass shooting at one of its stores in Texas, though it has not changed its policy on gun sales.

One-third of the attackers who terrorized schools, houses of worship or businesses nationwide last year had a history of serious domestic violence, two-thirds had mental health issues, and nearly all had made threatening or concerning communications that worried others before they struck, according to a U.S. Secret Service report on mass attacks. The Secret Service studied 27 incidents where a...

Nancy Miramontes had 30 seconds to find the gunman. The Utah school psychologist weaved through a maze of dusty halls before spotting him in the corner of a classroom, holding a gun to a student’s head. She took a deep breath and fired three shots, the first time she’s ever used a gun. One bullet pierced the shooter’s forehead. “Nice...

The parents of one of the victims of the Parkland mass shooting are suing the United States, alleging that the FBI failed to prevent the deadly attack, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.