President Donald Trump told the nation’s governors on Monday that he would have rushed in to aid students and teachers during the deadly mass…
President Donald Trump told the nation’s governors on Monday that he would have rushed in to aid students and teachers during the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school
Trump says he would have rushed into Florida school, unarmed
The Supreme Court is rejecting the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to get the justices to intervene in the controversy over protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants
Supreme Court declines to decide fate of ‚Dreamers‘ just yet
Two survivors of the Columbine High School shooting nearly 20 years ago are lauding the cry for action by students who survived this month’s mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school
Pre-trial hearings for the criminal case of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman have been mired in side issues.
Students returning to the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people are both wary and hopeful
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is maintaining his innocence as he faces charges that he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and directed an international money-laundering conspiracy
Heavy police presence as students returned for first day of classes since Valentine’s Day massacre at Florida high school
Students who returned to school two weeks after 17 people were killed at their Florida school are leaving the campus after a half day
A Pennsylvania-based religious group is scheduled to host a blessing ceremony for couples that will feature their AR-15 rifles.
Students returning to the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people are both wary and hopeful.
The Rev. Billy Graham is getting a rare salute by the nation’s political leaders under the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik). Crews prepare for the late Rev. Billy Graham to be honored Wednesday in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building, Tuesday, Feb. 27,2018 in Washington.
Broward County Schools superintendent Robert Runcie said about 95 percent of the student body of 3,293 has returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, two weeks after a mass shooting killed 17 people.
(Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP). Faculty and staff greet police officers stationed outside of at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, Feb. 28,2018 in Parkland, Fla. With a heavy police presence, classes resumed for the first time…
For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed the dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were just beginning to glow.
(N. R. Fuller/National Science Foundation via AP). This image provided by the National Science Foundation shows a timeline of the universe. Scientists have detected a signal from 180 million years after the Big Bang when the earliest stars began glowing…
Federal charges in Arizona have been dismissed against a California man accused of sexually assaulting a female inmate while transporting her between jails in different states, but he still faces charges in a similar case in Arkansas.
Federal charges in Arizona have been dismissed against a California man accused of sexually assaulting a female inmate while transporting her between jails in different states, but he still faces charges in a…
An Alaska congressman has argued against gun control by wondering how many Jewish people „were put in the ovens“ during the Holocaust because they weren’t armed.
(AP Photo/Mark Thiessen). This Oct. 17,2016, photo shows U. S. Rep. Don Young gesturing while speaking with a reporter after a debate in Anchorage, Alaska. The most senior member in the U. S. House has argued against gun control by wondering how many Je…
California is sending its top energy and environment officials to protest Trump administration plans to scrap the Obama-era Clean Power Plan to slash fossil fuel emissions.
Walmart says it is raising the age restriction for people to buy firearms and ammunition to 21 years old.
Police in Georgia say a teacher apparently fired a gun inside a classroom and barricaded himself there for about 30 minutes before he was taken into custody.
(Kyle Kashuv via AP). In this photo released by Kyle Kashuv, Frank Krar, a statistics teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School displays his new tattoo in the campus, Wednesday, Feb. 28,2018, in honor of the victims of the shooting at the school…
(Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP). A student heads back to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 28,2018. With a heavy police presence, classes resumed for the first time since several student…
(AP Photo/Terry Renna). A sign of support is held up at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 28,2018. Students returned to class for the first time since a former student opened fire there with an assault weapon.
(Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP). Faculty and staff greet police officers stationed outside of at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, Feb. 28,2018 in Parkland, Fla. With a heavy police presence, classes resumed for the first time…
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):
A judge in Florida is looking into assets that the man accused of the Florida high school massacre may have available from his late mother’s estate.
A hearing is scheduled for Thursday on whether 19-year-old shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz may have an inheritance coming in a few years. His mother, Lynda Cruz, died in November at age 68 and his father some years before that.
A family friend, Rocxanne Deschamps, is also seeking to become administrator of the estate for Cruz and his younger brother. Cruz lived with Deschamps briefly after his mother died.
If Cruz comes into money later, it could be used to pay for his public defender.
Cruz could face the death penalty if convicted of 17 counts of murder in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The Florida congressman who represents the town where 17 people were shot and killed in a high school says Congress needs to act immediately on passing gun legislation.
Rep. Ted Deutch is a Democrat from south Florida who represents Parkland, the city where the Feb. 14 shooting happened. He was one of a handful of congressional members who met Wednesday with President Donald Trump.
Deutch says Congress needs to move ahead on new laws that would raise the minimum age to buy guns, expand background checks and ban types of semiautomatic rifles.
He warned that any proposals to arm teachers with guns would „only crush this bipartisan momentum toward action.“ He added that members of Congress need to put „the lives of children ahead“ of any fear of blowback from the National Rifle Association.
The mother of a teacher killed in the Florida high school massacre says she opposes a proposal to allow teachers to carry concealed weapons in schools.
Linda Beigel Schulman is the mother of 35-year-old geography teacher Scott Beigel. During a meeting with reporters Wednesday, she said the proposed bill would lead to a „firestorm.“
Schulman says she also is frustrated with state lawmakers, who she says keep changing their proposals and are trying to take advantage of the situation to advance political agendas.
She urged politicians to „do what’s right, not do what’s going to get you elected in November.“
The Florida House and Senate both have proposals that would raise the minimum age to buy any firearm from 18 to 21, create a waiting period to buy rifles, and allow school districts to arm teachers. Schulman also wants a ban on large-capacity-ammunition magazines and assault rifles – ideas the Republican leadership hasn’t been willing to consider.
Broward County Schools superintendent Robert Runcie said about 95 percent of the student body of 3,293 has returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, two weeks after a mass shooting killed 17 people.
He called Wednesday’s attendance „outstanding.“ Runcie added that there were about 150 counselors at the campus to offer support to staff and students, as well as 40 therapy dogs.
Almost all of the county’s high school principals also came to the school Wednesday to support the staff as school reopened for a half-day „modified schedule.“
Runcie said he would use the words „flexible, support and love“ to describe what’s happening at the school this week.
