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Ex-MSD Deputy Scot Peterson Arrested on Child Neglect, Negligence Charges in 2018 Shooting
Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Deputy Scot Peterson was arrested Tuesday on negligence and child neglect charges related to last year’s shooting at the Parkland school.
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Principals From Schools With Shootings Form Support Network
In the days after a teenager shot and killed three fellow students at Ohio’s Chardon High School in 2012, then-Principal Andy Fetchik remembers getting a call from someone who knew just what he was experiencing. It was Frank DeAngelis, the principal of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, during the deadly 1999 shooting. DeAngelis told him: It’s going to be...
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Parkland Community Worried After 2 Survivors' Suicides
The community of Parkland, Florida, is focusing attention on its suicide prevention programs after two survivors of the Florida high school massacre killed themselves in a week.
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Abre nueva clínica de emergencias
El Centro Médico Universitario celebró el inicio de obra del segundo centro de este tipo.
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Reflection: Remembering the 17 Parkland Victims
One year after – as families continue to grieve and activists organize to prevent similar tragedies from ever occurring – we remember the students, teachers and staff members who lost their lives, yet whose presence remains.
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‘Parkland Speaks': School Shooting Survivors Turn Grief Into Activism
Survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have turned to music, poetry, art and activism as they try to cope with the grief of losing 17 students and teachers on Feb 14, 2018.
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MSD Teachers Reflect 1 Year After Shooting
A year after the Parkland massacre, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teachers Ernie Rospierski and Stacey Lippel open up about the surviving the shooting. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.
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More States Adopting Gun-Seizure Laws After Parkland Tragedy
In the year since the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school, more and more states have passed laws making it easier to take guns away from people who may be suicidal or bent on violence against others, and courts are issuing an unprecedented number of seizure orders across the country. Supporters say these “red flag” laws are among...
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Timeline: How the #NeverAgain Movement Gained Momentum After Parkland
The shooting last Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, prompted a wave of student and parent activism for stricter gun laws not seen after previous massacres. Here’s a look at how the Never Again movement gained momentum after the massacre:
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Trauma Talks Focus On Florida School Shooting's Anniversary
A group of therapists are holding workshops to prepare a Florida high school for the anniversary of last year’s mass shooting.
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Washington State Bans Anyone Under 21 From Buying Assault Rifles
Washington on Tuesday joined a handful of other states that ban anyone under 21 from buying a semi-automatic assault rifle after voters passed a sweeping firearms measure in November that has drawn a court challenge from gun-rights advocates. The ballot initiative seeks to curb gun violence by toughening background checks for people buying assault rifles, increasing the age limit to...
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Parkland Shooting Survivor, Prominent Gun Control Advocate David Hogg to Attend Harvard University
A high school student who survived a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida has been accepted to Harvard University. David Hogg, who decided to take a year off before starting college, in part he said at the time because he wanted to be around to look out for his little sister, posted on Twitter Saturday saying, “Thank you all for the...
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Trump's School Safety Panel Seeks to Revoke Discipline Rules Meant to Curb Racial Disparities
The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to roll back an Obama-era policy that was meant to curb racial disparities in school discipline but that critics say left schools afraid to take action against potentially dangerous students. The recommendation was among dozens issued in a new report by President Donald Trump’s federal school safety commission, which was formed in response to...
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'The Guardians' Named Time's 2018 Person of the Year
Time magazine unveiled its Person of the Year for 2018, honoring a group of journalists whose work has landed them in jail — or cost them their lives — “in the pursuit of greater truths.” The magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal announced Time’s choice of “The Guardians and the War on Truth” on the “Today” show Tuesday, and revealed the four...
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Parkland School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Attacked Deputy Inside Jail: BSO
Broward Sheriff’s Office officials confirmed to NBC 6 that Nikolas Cruz attacked a detention deputy inside the facility Wednesday morning..
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National Issues Loom Large in Key House Race Near DC
Warner Workman has met his Virginia congresswoman several times at local events and says he’s “always dumbfounded when she actually remembers my name.” Rep. Barbara Comstock’s social media pages are filled with photos of her thanking local first responders at 9/11 memorials, posing with families at county fairs, attending Boy Scout events and opening new police stations in Virginia’s 10th...
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Teacher Says Cruz Posed as Student Months Before Shooting
Records released by prosecutors reveal that Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz trespassed on school grounds about six months before the massacre that left 17 dead.
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Dozens of Mayors Join March for Our Lives' Young Voter Drive
Mayors across the country are teaming up with the anti-gun campaign March for Our Lives to help, one of the group’s founders said Thursday morning. David Hogg, the former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who became a gun control advocate in the wake of the massacre there, revealed the new initiative along with New York City Mayor Bill de...
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Six Months After Shooting, Stoneman Douglas Students Head Back to Class
A day after the six-month-anniversary of the Parkland school shooting, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading back to class– and to heightened security measures.
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Florida School Shooting Survivors Rally at NRA Headquarters in Virginia
Survivors of a deadly shooting at a Florida high school joined a march in Virginia to protest what they consider efforts by the National Rifle Association to block gun-control laws and bans on assault rifles.