Parkland students pour their feelings into poetry
A 14-year-old student who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wrote about life's "ups and downs" soon before his death. After the shooting, a classmate writes that "nothing about this feels normal."…
Schools brace for massive student walkouts over gun violence
Some schools have taken a hard line, promising to suspend students who walk out, while others are using a more supportive approach.
Opinion: To prevent school shootings, can mental health be taught?
Maybe if students learn how to accept feelings of frustration, fear and embarrassment, they won’t need to avoid those feelings by hurting themselves or someone else.
Photos: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High reopens after shooting
Students and teachers hugged and cried Wednesday as they returned under heavy police guard to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High for the first time since a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people.
PARKLAND, Fla. — The line of students and their parents wrapped around Stoneman Douglas High School, several thousand people entering the campus for the first time since a gunman took 17 lives nearly two weeks ago.
The Florida sheriff whose department responded to this month's high school massacre defended his leadership Sunday while insisting that only one of his deputies was on the scene as the gunman killed 14 students and three staff members.
The Supreme Court is rejecting two challenges by guns rights groups to California laws regulating firearms' sales.
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are considering laws that would allow judges to restrain dangerous gun owners from their firearms.
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.
