FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz’s name, and Cruz cannot give any interviews without his permission, under a settlement reached in a lawsuit. Under his recent settlement with Anthony Borges, Cruz must also turn over […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Anthony Borges now owns Nikolas Cruz’s name, according to his lawyer. As part of a negotiated civil settlement between the gunman and the teenager who survived multiple gunshot wounds at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Cruz cannot so much as grant an interview without the written consent of a young man […]
This is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Sign up below. Last week, I set out to write a quick news hit on the FCC’s new cybersecurity grants for schools and libraries — a pilot program that will pump $200 million toward next-gen firewalls and other tools. But that’s when […]
This article was originally published in Utah News Dispatch. The mother of Alyssa Alhadeff, a student who was killed in her English class during the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, stood before a room full of lawmakers and state officials on Wednesday. Lori Alhadeff held a portrait of her daughter […]
After Vice President Kamala Harris walked the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she pushed for gun control legislation by announcing a new national office to promote “red flag” laws. “I do believe we have a duty to remember and a duty to bear witness to what happened here. It is […]
At the still blood-stained site of the worst school shooting in Florida history, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new measure on Saturday to curb gun violence. Walking alongside the families of victims, Harris toured the hallways where Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 14 students and three faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday announced new gun safety initiatives from Parkland, Florida, after walking through the old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building, where 17 people were killed by a gunman in 2018. The vice president was in the state Saturday to meet with victims’ families and to see the high school, which […]
PARKLAND — Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting a Parkland high school this afternoon where a gunman killed 17 people in 2018, to push for states to use available federal funds to strengthen gun violence prevention programs. Harris is expected to tour the building where the massacre occurred, alongside U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz and a […]
Vice President Harris will make two announcements on gun violence prevention efforts Saturday in Parkland, Fla., where 14 students and three staff members were killed in a school shooting in 2018. Harris is set to meet with families of those killed in the mass shooting and will visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with them, […]
Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg has put the boot into Donald Trump over the former president’s new sneaker brand. Trump received a mixed reception as he launched the line at “Sneaker Con” in Philadelphia on Saturday, a day after the judge in his New York civil trial ordered him to pay $355 million for […]
This article was originally published in Florida Phoenix. Florida lawmakers approved a bill aimed at increasing school safety on the sixth anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Meanwhile, they also were considering rolling back a state law that increased the minimum age for purchasing a gun that lawmakers […]
When Jessica Lieberman first heard that the Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation had launched a nationwide design competition, she immediately decided to submit her idea: a heart with angel wings. She did it because she has been living in Parkland since 2015 and experienced the tragedy closely on Feb. 14, 2018. She also did it because […]