West Virginia’s teacher walkout isn’t over yet as classrooms in all of the state’s 55 counties are to remain closed as state…
West Virginia’s teacher walkout isn’t over yet as classrooms in all of the state’s 55 counties are to remain closed as state Senate action is awaited on a proposed 5 percent pay hike.
(Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP). Jennyerin Steele Staats, a special education teacher from Jackson County holds her sign aloft outside of the capitol building after WVEA President Dale Lee outlined the terms for ending the walkout on the…
Plans for the Rev. Billy Graham’s funeral on Friday began about a decade ago with the evangelist himself.
(AP Photo/Chuck Burton). Edgar Valenzuela, right, hugs Clyde Fonderin, left, after they paid their respects to Rev. Billy Graham during a public viewing at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N. C., Tuesday, Feb. 27,2018.
Records obtained by The Associated Press show Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens used an email address for a veterans charity he founded to arrange political meetings as he prepared to launch his first bid for public office.
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File). FILE – In this Jan. 29,2018 file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks in Palmyra, Mo. Missouri lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse for the first time Monday, Feb. 26,2018 since Greitens was indicted, with pl…
When a gunshot was fired from a classroom in the north Georgia mountains and police identified the gunman as a teacher, it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed.
(Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office via AP). This undated photo provided by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office shows Jesse Randal Davidson. Social studies teacher Davidson barricaded himself inside a classroom at Dalton High School in Dalton, Ga., We…
Pro-gun Republicans in the Georgia legislature have won a political victory over Delta Air Lines, denying the company a hefty tax break after it cut ties with the National Rifle Association.
(Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP). Gov. Nathan Deal holds a press conference to address the jet fuel tax cut issue after the Senate Rules Committee stripped the Delta tax cut from legislation in Atlanta on Wednesday, Feb. 28,2018. Deal…
A freeway-side billboard for a Las Vegas gun range was vandalized overnight to change an advertisement inviting tourists to fire an assault-style rifle to say, « Shoot A School Kid Only $29. ».
(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP). This Thursday, March 1,2018 shows a vandalized billboard near Interstate 15 in Las Vegas. The advertisement inviting tourists to fire an assault-style rifle, which originally said « Shoot a.50 calib…
Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of the widow of the gunman who police say killed dozens at a Florida nightclub.
Novel proposals to ramp up school security are flying fast as districts respond to heightened safety fears in the aftermath of the shooting in Parkland, Florida.
(Claire Crouch/Lex18News via AP). This Feb. 21,2018 photo made available by Lex18 News, shows a group protesting school safety in Laurel County, KY. In the wake of a mass shooting at a Florida high school, parents and educators are mobilizing to deman…
A New York City nanny accused of stabbing two small children to death in the bathroom of their Manhattan apartment is heading to trial.
(Susan Watts/The Daily News via AP, File). FILE- In this March 8,2013 file photo, Yoselyn Ortega, center, charged with the stabbing deaths of two small children under her care, is escorted to her seat for her first court appearance in New York. Openin…
The Georgia Senate approved a sweeping tax bill Thursday that punishes Delta Air Lines for cutting business ties with the National Rifle Association.
(Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP). Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Gov. Deal’s chief of staff Chris Riley confer in the senate before the senate went into recess and the Rules Committee stripped the Delta tax cut from legislation. Gov. Nathan D…
(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP). Las Vegas police investigate the vandalism of a billboard near Interstate 15 in Las Vegas, Thursday, March 1,2018. The advertisement inviting tourists to fire an assault-style rifle, which originall…
(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP). This Thursday, March 1,2018 shows a vandalized billboard near Interstate 15 in Las Vegas. The advertisement inviting tourists to fire an assault-style rifle, which originally said « Shoot a.50 calib…
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A freeway-side billboard for a Las Vegas gun range was vandalized late Wednesday or before dawn Thursday to change an advertisement inviting tourists to fire an assault-style rifle to say, « Shoot A School Kid Only $29. »
The message, which had said « Shoot a .50 caliber only $29, » was taken down within hours and police were investigating. Officer Larry Hadfield said authorities were called a little before 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
A local guerrilla art collective called INDECLINE took credit for the act with a statement to KTNV-TV in Las Vegas calling for reforming gun laws « that are currently placing value on assault weapons over that of human life. »
An email to INDECLINE by The Associated Press was not immediately answered.
A worker at Battlefield Las Vegas, the gun range that invites tourists to shoot a .50-caliber semi-automatic rifle, referred questions to managers who did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages.
The billboard near Interstate 15 is about 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) from the Mandalay Bay resort, where a gunman firing assault-style rifles from 32nd-floor windows killed 58 people and injured more than 800 late Oct. 1 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U. S. history.
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