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Cops investigating after NY college student killed
Police are investigating after a New York college student was killed in an off-campus house during an early morning break-in, casting a pall over the campus and commencement ceremonies. Police say Hofstra University junior Andrea Rebello was shot and killed early Friday during the home invasion. A masked gunman was ...
Child accused of firing BB gun at school bus
A Fairburn child has been accused of shooting a BB gun at a school bus south of Atlanta. CBS Atlanta reported (http://bit.ly/11IlK7K ) that the shooting happened May 10, as the bus was headed North on Highway 29. Police say a silver-colored Kia Sorento pulled up alongside the bus and ...
Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions
Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional. The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado's 64 counties, most representing rural, gun-friendly areas of the state. The sheriffs say the new state laws ...
Mass. US Senate hopefuls spar over gun control ad
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Gabriel Gomez defended his stance on gun control Friday and lashed out at Democratic nominee and veteran Congressman Edward Markey for alluding to the Connecticut school massacre in a TV campaign ad that criticized Gomez on the gun issue. The Markey ad uses excerpts of Gomez ...
Father of Illinois school shooter gets probation
The father of a central Illinois teenager who pulled a gun in his class and fired shots into the ceiling has admitted giving the boy the weapon. Forty-three-year-old Rodney Kinder pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawful delivery of a firearm to a minor. He was given two months of probation. The ...
OR attorney general opposes Kinkel appeal
Oregon's attorney general's office is opposing an appeal from Kip Kinkel who killed his parents and two high school students in 1998 in Springfield. A response filed in Marion County Circuit Court says Kinkel has exhausted his appeals and it's too late to overturn his 112-year sentence. The Oregonian reports ...
Officer kills Ohio motorist during traffic stop
The University of Akron says an officer fatally shot a 64-year-old man during a traffic stop after he produced what later was determined to be a BB pistol. The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man shot at about 11 a.m. Thursday as James Genda of Akron. University spokeswoman ...
Advocacy group, Newtown families criticize Ayotte
Two men who lost relatives in last year's shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school urged New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Thursday to change her position on a gun control measure that would expand background checks. Neil Heslin and Gilles Rousseau spoke at a news conference held by advocacy ...
Bill promotes violence-awareness in Calif. schools
The state Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would require education officials to create lesson plans about violence in American culture — the Legislature's latest reaction to mass shootings last year elsewhere in the nation. Under SB552, individual schools could decide whether to include the lessons in curriculum. The ...
Newtown parents seek more focus on school security
The moment Alissa Parker learned of a shooting at her daughter's school, she suddenly regretted not pointing out what she had seen as security gaps at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was among 20 first-graders killed in the Dec. 14 massacre, had thought security could have ...
Conn. lawmakers seek federal funds for Newtown
Members of Connecticut's congressional delegation announced plans Thursday to try to secure federal funds to help Newtown build a new elementary school after last year's massacre — and they say senators owe the residents after failing to support legislation that would have expanded background checks for certain gun purchases. U.S. ...
Man shoots himself in head at Paris school
A dozen students and a teacher saw a man kill himself with a shot in the head at a private Catholic school on Thursday, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe said. The mayor said his thoughts were with "all the little Parisians who were present, their parents and all the educational community." ...
Ohio student's condition upgraded after shooting
The condition of a 17-year-old high school student has improved, more than two weeks after he was hospitalized with a gunshot wound self-inflicted in a Cincinnati area classroom. A University of Cincinnati Medical Center spokeswoman says his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. She said Thursday that medical ...
Charges unlikely in accidental school shooting
Police say a high school employee who accidentally shot a student in the leg likely won't face criminal charges. The Aurora Sentinel reports that the unnamed employee at Rangeview High School has been placed on administrative leave (http://bit.ly/12yBMMZ ). Police and school officials haven't released the employee's name, saying only ...
Vote on bill to arm URI cops delayed
State lawmakers in Rhode Island on Tuesday postponed a vote on legislation that would allow University of Rhode Island police officers to carry firearms — but insisted the proposal remains under serious consideration. The committee vote that had been scheduled for Tuesday was put off indefinitely to give lawmakers more ...
Fate of Newtown death certificate bills in doubt
The fate of legislation being pursued by the Newtown town clerk to restrict the public's access to death certificates appears to be in doubt as the General Assembly inches toward adjournment. Newtown Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia has refused to release death certificates requested for the 26 victims of the Dec. ...
Ohio gov to address grads at school shooting site
Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) plans to deliver the commencement address at a northeast Ohio high school where three students were killed and three others injured in a 2012 shooting spree. A spokesman said Tuesday the speech at Chardon High School will be June 1. Kasich honored Chardon's faculty and staff ...
Leishman hoping golf can help heal Newtown
When Australian golfer Marc Leishman heard about the December shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, he immediately went to his computer to look at a map. Leishman won his first and so-far only PGA Tour event last June at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, and wanted to see how ...
Va. Tech president retires, reflects on massacre
The president of Virginia Tech announced his retirement Tuesday, satisfied he had elevated the university's reputation and acknowledging that the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history on his campus would be a part of his legacy. Charles Steger, 65, continues to be a central figure and criticized for the ...
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