Authorities announced this week that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man responsible for the Dec. 13 mass shooting at Brown University, had finally been located. He was found dead. Valente, 48, h…

In the modern era of U.S. school shootings, one pattern has been grimly consistent. The violence is usually over quickly, either because the shooter is apprehended at the scene or dies there.

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Two people are dead. Nine others were shot and sent to the hospital. The shooter is still at large. And yet, somehow, the most energetic response to the Brown University shooting has been a flurry …

Early Friday morning, before the school day had begun, a shooting in the parking lot of Stewartville High School in Stewartville, Minnesota, left one student critically injured and an adult man dea…

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The shooting at Brown University on Saturday afternoon happened during final exams, when campuses are at their busiest and most exposed. Two students, Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama,…

If you are waiting for dramatic developments in the Apalachee High School shooting case, you will need patience. If you are waiting for commentary about a teenager’s haircut, some national ‘n…

Yes, I’m very much aware of the shooting at Brown University and the circus surrounding it. Sadly, I have this and another shooting to get through. But I digress… Anyway, another colleg…

Oviedo, Florida, delivered yet another entry in the ever-expanding catalog of “school safety stories that write themselves.” At Lawton Chiles Middle School, an automated weapons-detection system tr…

Pasadena, Texas, is making headlines, and unfortunately it’s not for anything as harmless as a new rodeo attraction or a record-breaking barbecue festival. Instead, police say two Pasadena Memorial…

In St. Clair Shores, Michigan, a 20-year-old man is now at the center of a rapidly escalating criminal case after authorities say he expressed a desire to commit a school shooting. The headlines ar…

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If it feels like there’s been an endless stream of school gun incidents lately, that’s because there has been. What follows is not a comprehensive list. It’s not even close. These are just the case…

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The Florida Supreme Court has once again informed death row inmate David Sparre that no, he may not have another bite at the appellate apple. On December 4th, the justices unanimously rejected his …

I was waiting on some information to come in about this story before posting it, but it never came in. By now you’d think that when a student is shot on campus, during the school day, the public wo…

Some criminal plans are unraveled by brilliant detective work, and some collapse because the would-be offender made the mistake of parking someplace he wasn’t supposed to be. The case of 25-year-ol…

Some stories read like satire even before you write them up. Case in point, the October 20th incident at Kenwood High School, where police drew guns on a teenager because an AI system thought an em…

High school football season may be winding down, but if anyone thought winter sports meant a break from guns showing up at school events, Sunday night in Fishers, Indiana, served as a painful remin…

Thanksgiving week is usually slow news-wise. Schools are closed for part of it, police departments run lighter staffing, and even the worst actors seem to take a few days off. Or so we’d like to th…

A former Uvalde School District Police Chief and one of his officers have been indicted, facing charges of evidence tampering.