New Florida governor suspends sheriff over school massacre
January 11, 2019 GMTFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — New Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel on Friday over his handling of February's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, saying he "repeatedly failed and has demonstrated a pattern of poor leadership...
Parkland survivor David Hogg is going to Harvard University
December 22, 2018 GMTTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg is going to Harvard University...
Florida high school massacre panel considers recommendations
November 17, 2018 GMTSUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The state commission investigating the Florida high school massacre began discussions Friday on what recommendations it will make regarding student safety, mental health and steps to prevent future school shootings...
Sheriff: Parkland shooting suspect assaulted jail officer
November 14, 2018 GMTFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz attacked a detention officer at the county jail and now faces new charges including use of the officer's electric stun device, authorities said Wednesday...
Parkland survivors vote for 1st time, months after massacre
November 3, 2018 GMTPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Nine months after 17 classmates and teachers were gunned down at their Florida school, Parkland students are finally facing the moment they've been leading up to with marches, school walkouts and voter-registration events throughout the country: their first Election Day...
Months after massacre, Parkland victims vote for first time
November 2, 2018 GMTPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Nine months after 17 classmates and teachers were gunned down at their Florida school, Parkland students are finally facing the moment they've been leading up to with marches, school walkouts and voter-registration events throughout the country: their first Election Day.
Teacher says Cruz posed as student months before shooting
October 14, 2018 GMTPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Records released by prosecutors reveal that Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz trespassed on school grounds about six months before the massacre that left 17 dead.
A Parkland computer science teacher says she saw Cruz on the first day of school in August 2017, carrying a backpack and hanging with other students as if he were one of them.
New documentary on Parkland shooting shows graphic footage
October 13, 2018 GMTDAVIE, Fla. (AP) — The first full length documentary on the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead shows graphic cellphone footage from inside the school and much of it is not blurred...
Parents of Florida massacre victims seek school board seats
August 27, 2018 GMTFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Broward County school board races are usually niche affairs as passionate advocates futilely implore an indifferent public to care, even a decade ago when the nation's sixth-largest district was rocked by bribery and construction scandals...
Parkland students start school year with tightened security
August 16, 2018 GMTPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to a more secure campus on Wednesday as they began their first new school year since a gunman killed 17 people in the freshman building...
School massacre relatives want school board ousted
August 9, 2018 GMTSUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The parents and spouses of the Florida high school massacre's victims called Thursday for the ouster of their county's school board, saying the members haven't done enough to bolster security before students return to class next week...
Video shows massacre suspect slouched, punching self in face
August 9, 2018 GMTSUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday released hours of video interrogation of Florida's school shooting suspect, footage showing the young man slouching in a chair, being repeatedly urged by a detective to speak louder and punching himself in the face when he is alone...
Parkland, Fla., students plant memorial trees in New Zealand
July 25, 2018 GMTCHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Delaney Tarr says Valentine's Day was supposed to be a time to celebrate beauty and love but instead turned into a day of fear when a gunman attacked her Florida school...
Survivors describe carnage at Florida high school massacre
June 30, 2018 GMTFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Students and teachers who survived a Florida high school massacre told investigators how they watched classmates die, had bullets whiz past them and huddled in fear until they were rescued by police, in some of the most dramatic records released so far from the mass shooting...
Parkland mom: ‘Shooter may as well have just shot us’
June 15, 2018 GMTFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Helena Ramsay was wise beyond her years, shy until you got to know her and discovered she had a wicked wit...
Drama students from Parkland school take NY stage again
June 12, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The drama students from Florida's Parkland school have made another surprise stage appearance in New York...
Video details the moments before Florida school shooting
June 7, 2018 GMTFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A just-released video interview with a campus security monitor at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School provides new details that may prompt another round of what-if questions about the Valentine's Day shooting that killed 17 people...
Thousands march across NYC’s Brooklyn Bridge in gun protest
June 3, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators have marched across New York's Brooklyn Bridge in a protest against gun violence...
Heroic Florida drama teacher to get special Tony Award
May 31, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The special Tony Award that honors educators this year will go to a drama teacher who picks her high school's shows, builds the sets, hems the costumes — and nurtured many of the young people demanding change following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida...
Florida school shooting suspect foretold intention in videos
May 31, 2018 GMTFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In chilling cellphone videos released Wednesday, the suspect in a February massacre at a Florida high school announced his intention to become the next school shooter, aiming to kill at least 20 people and saying "you're all going to die...
Supermarket suspends political giving amid anti-NRA protest
May 26, 2018 GMTPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Survivors of the Parkland school shooting lay down in "die ins" at two Publix supermarkets Friday to protest the chain's support for a gubernatorial candidate aligned with the National Rifle Association, as the company announced a suspension of political contributions.
Parkland students on Texas: “They’re part of this now”
May 19, 2018 GMTPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, are expressing outrage and heartbreak after authorities said a student killed 10 people Friday at a high school in Texas...
Houston teams; athletes offer support after school shooting
May 18, 2018 GMTHOUSTON (AP) — Rockets star Chris Paul is among many in the Houston sports world offering condolences to the families affected by an area school shooting that left 10 people dead...
Poetry, film, maps: Parkland students quietly process trauma
May 15, 2018 GMTPARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — When freshman Eden Hebron wanted to capture the searing experience of being in a classroom where a fellow student killed her best friend and three other people, she turned to poetry...
Trump salutes NRA, says elect Republicans to save gun rights
May 4, 2018 GMTDALLAS (AP) — Months after the horror of the Parkland school shootings in Florida, President Donald Trump stood before cheering members of the National Rifle Association on Friday and implored them to elect more Republicans to Congress to defend gun rights...