Tag: School violence
Businesses, schools close as storm Elsa nears Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Officials in St. Vincent and the Grenadines closed schools, businesses and an international airport on Friday as the eastern...
1998 Oregon school shooter: ‘tremendous shame and guilt’
SALEM, Ore. — Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents before going on a shooting rampage at his Oregon high school in 1998, killing two...
2 arrested in fatal shooting of Terre Haute high school girl
CARLISLE, Ind. — State police said over the weekend that two men have been arrested in a recent shooting that killed a 15-year-old high...
1 student fatally shot in new abduction in Nigeria’s north
LAGOS, Nigeria — A student has been fatally shot at a school in northern Nigeria as gunmen abducted eight students and two lecturers in...
Defense rests its case in Colorado school shooting trial
DENVER — One of the suspects in a fatal attack at a suburban Denver high school in 2019 had become such a chronic drug...
Legislators, students push for K-12 Asian American studies
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When the Asian American Student Union at a Connecticut high school organized a Zoom call following the killing of six Asian...
Biden gives video address to graduating Parkland students
PARKLAND, Fla. — President Joe Biden, in a surprise video address to a Tuesday commencement ceremony, said graduating seniors who were freshmen when a...
North Carolina high school senior in flag flap gets diploma
ASHEBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina high school graduate now has his diploma, after a social media uproar over the Mexican flag he wore...
Former Michigan State basketball star charged with murder
DETROIT — A former captain of the Michigan State University basketball team was charged with murder Monday in the fatal shooting of a man...
Students suspended after schoolyard clash over Pride flags
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A schoolyard clash over gay Pride flags got some students suspended and others expelled from their Florida middle school. The...