Court: Kentucky school shooting judge wrong to close hearing

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky appeals court said Thursday that a judge presiding over a school shooting case was wrong to close the suspect’s criminal arraignment to the public. In a separate ruling this week, the state’s chief justice denied a motion from prosecutors seeking to remove the same judge from the case. Marshall... Read More

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James Jameson

March 2, 2018

Bizarre behavior by Georgia teacher preceded gun scare

ATLANTA (AP) — When a north Georgia high school teacher was charged this week with firing a gunshot from inside a barricaded classroom and setting off a frantic lockdown and evacuation, it was not his first troubling encounter with police. Just over a year ago, school employees and a police officer began searching Dalton High... Read More

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Jesse Randal Davidson

March 2, 2018

Congress’ immigration push sputters as guns grab attention

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s taken just two weeks for Washington’s immigration battle to fade from blistering to back-burner. Lawmakers now seem likely to do little or nothing this election year on an effort that’s been eclipsed by Congress’ new focus on guns, bloodied by Senate defeats and relegated to B-level urgency by a Supreme Court... Read More

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Guns

March 1, 2018

Jury selection to begin in trial of Pulse shooter’s widow

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of the widow of the gunman who police say killed dozens at a Florida nightclub. Noor Salman’s trial will be held in federal court in Orlando. Selection begins Thursday. The case hinges on whether Salman knowingly helped Omar Mateen plan the 2016... Read More

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Noor Salman, Omar Mateen, Pulse Nightclub

March 1, 2018

The Latest: Walmart sets age of 21 to buy firearms, ammo

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the return of students and teachers to class following the killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (all times local): 9:30 p.m. Walmart says it will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21. The retailer’s new policy comes after Dick’s Sporting... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz, Walmart

February 28, 2018

Across Florida, parents, teens, officials, talk safety

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s governor said Tuesday that he’s determined to make the Parkland school shooting the last the state ever experiences. Gov. Rick Scott met with Miami-Dade County officials to outline a plan to pass a school safety bill before the state’s annual legislative session ends next Friday. Scott says he wants to... Read More

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Guns, Nikolas Cruz

February 27, 2018

Hearing for Florida shooting suspect case canceled

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Tuesday morning hearing in the criminal case against the suspect accused in the Florida high school shooting has been canceled. Prosecutors are seeking to obtain hair samples, fingerprints, DNA and photographs of Nikolas Cruz, 19. The hearing was removed from the court docket and no explanation was immediately available. Cruz,... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz

February 26, 2018

County to pay $4.5M to settle murder conviction lawsuit

CLEVELAND (AP) — Three Ohio men who spent two decades behind bars because police and prosecutors allegedly hid statements and evidence that could have cleared them in a 1995 slaying are expected to receive $1.5 million each to settle the county’s liability in federal lawsuits naming two former assistant prosecutors as defendants. A Cuyahoga County... Read More

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Derrick Wheatt, Eugene Johnson, Laurese Glover

February 23, 2018

Man convicted of murder in shooting of unarmed black man

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A white man who fatally shot an unarmed black man after reporting “hoodlums” has been found guilty of first-degree murder in North Carolina. News outlets report that the jury spent less than two hours deliberating before finding Chad Copley guilty of premeditated murder in the death of 20-year-old Kouren-Rodney Thomas, who... Read More

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Chad Copley

February 20, 2018

The Latest: Suspect legally purchased at least 7 long guns

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the deadly Florida high school shooting (all times local): 11 p.m. A law enforcement official says the man charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school legally purchased at least seven long guns, including an AK-47-style rifle he bought less than a month ago. The official... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz

February 20, 2018

School shooting puts pressure on Florida lawmakers to act

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The deadly shooting at a Florida high school has put pressure on the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws in a state that has resisted restrictions on firearms for decades, lawmakers said Monday. The legislative effort coalesced as 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz

February 19, 2018

For school shooting suspect, main question is life or death

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The evidence against the Florida school shooting suspect is so overwhelming, the only question left for the courts if he is convicted is whether he will be sentenced to death or spend the rest of his life in prison. The fate of 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, who faces 17 counts of... Read More

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Nikolas Cruz

February 16, 2018

The Latest: Hundreds at vigil mourn school shooting victims

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly school shooting at a Florida high school (all times local): 11 p.m. The 17 people killed in the Florida high school shooting have been remembered at a candlelight vigil attended by at least 1,000 people. There was a moment of silence and the victims’ names were... Read More

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Florida Shooter, Nikolas Cruz

February 15, 2018

Former student opens fire at Florida high school, killing 17

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooter, who was equipped with... Read More

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Florida Shooter, Nikolas Cruz

Court: Kentucky school shooting judge wrong to close hearing

Bizarre behavior by Georgia teacher preceded gun scare

Congress’ immigration push sputters as guns grab attention

Jury selection to begin in trial of Pulse shooter’s widow

The Latest: Walmart sets age of 21 to buy firearms, ammo

Across Florida, parents, teens, officials, talk safety

Hearing for Florida shooting suspect case canceled

County to pay $4.5M to settle murder conviction lawsuit

Man convicted of murder in shooting of unarmed black man

The Latest: Suspect legally purchased at least 7 long guns

School shooting puts pressure on Florida lawmakers to act

For school shooting suspect, main question is life or death

The Latest: Hundreds at vigil mourn school shooting victims

Former student opens fire at Florida high school, killing 17

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