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TN Lawmakers Vote for More Guns in Schools
A year after refusing to respond to a deadly school shooting with gun-control measures, Tennessee House Republicans passed what would be...
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Apr 24, 20242 min read
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At 25th Anniversary, Quantifying Columbine's Effects
The April 20, 1999, Columbine school massacre was neither the first nor the deadliest school shooting in our nation's history. But by all...
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Apr 19, 20242 min read
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School Families Gain Copyright to Shooter's Writings, Fight Release
While a Tennessee judge on Wednesday said that she was willing to release the writings of a school shooter as public record once an...
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Apr 18, 20241 min read
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Tennessee Is Ramping Up Penalties For Student Threats
After a former student killed six people last year at the private Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, state leaders have been...
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Apr 17, 20242 min read
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Survey Shows Teachers' Anxiety Over School Shootings
More than half of America's teachers worry about a school shooting, about 1 out of 4 of them experienced a gun-related lockdown in the...
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Apr 12, 20241 min read
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Former Virginia School Administrator Charged For Failing To Stop Teacher Shooting
A former assistant principal at Virginia’s Richneck Elementary School has been indicted in the high-profile shooting of a teacher by a...
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Apr 10, 20242 min read
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MI Prosecutors Seek 10-Year Term For School Shooter's Parents
Michigan prosecutors are calling for at least 10 years in prison for two parents who are the first to be held criminally responsible for...
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Apr 4, 20242 min read
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Parents Of MI School Shooting Victims Want To Sue Officials
The parents of four students killed at a Michigan school called on Monday for a state investigation of all aspects of the 2021 mass...
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Mar 19, 20241 min read
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Michigan School Shooter's Father Found Guilty Of Manslaughter
James Crumbley, the father of a Michigan school shooter, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a second conviction...
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Mar 15, 20242 min read
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Father Of Michigan School Shooter On Trial After Mom's Conviction
Like his wife, James Crumbley is accused of being a bad parent whose decisions ultimately cost four Michigan children their lives — all...
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Mar 5, 20242 min read
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Crumbley Verdict's Effect On Parents May Deter Mass Shooters
After a Michigan jury convicted Jennifer Crumbley of involuntary manslaughter in a historic case that looked at the culpability of a...
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Feb 9, 20242 min read
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MI Jury Finds School Shooter's Mother Guilty Of Manslaughter
Jennifer Crumbley, mother of the Oxford High School, Mi., shooter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter by a jury on Tuesday, after...
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Feb 6, 20242 min read
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Mom Of Michigan School Shooter Tells Jury She Saw No Warning Signs
For the first time, the mother of Oxford, Mi., High School mass shooter Ethan Crumbley spoke on her own behalf Thursday, taking the stand...
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Feb 2, 20242 min read
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'Tragically Small, Easy Things' Could Have Stopped MI Shooting, Jury Told
Michigan prosecutors told jurors that Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of a boy who carried out a 2021 high school shooting, failed to do...
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Jan 26, 20242 min read
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Parents' Trials In Michigan School Shooting Case Could Set Precedent
Hours before Ethan Crumbley killed four Oxford, Mi., students, his parents met with a school counselor who showed them a picture their...
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Jan 22, 20242 min read
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Uvalde Families Again Seek Criminal Case In School Massacre
Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Tex., school massacre are renewing demands for criminal charges after a U.S....
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Jan 19, 20242 min read
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DOJ Cites 'Cascading Failures' Of Police In Uvalde School Shooting
A new U.S. Justice Department investigation found that a near-total breakdown in policing protocols hindered the response to the 2022...
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Jan 18, 20242 min read
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Iowa Principal Dies; Intervened To Protect Students In Shooting
Dan Marburger, a Perry, Iowa, principal who put himself in harm’s way to protect students during a school shooting this month died...
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Jan 15, 20241 min read
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Teen Kills Sixth Grader, Shoots Five Others At Iowa High School
A 17-year-old student shot and killed a sixth-grader and injured five others at Perry High School in rural Iowa. Dylan Butler, 17, was...
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Jan 5, 20241 min read
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Mother of Virginia School Shooter Gets Two-Year Prison Term
The mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher this year was sentenced to two years in a Virginia prison for child neglect. A...
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Dec 18, 20232 min read
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