Tag: shootings

Enlarge this image Norah Weiner (L) and Erika Young (R), the grand-prize winners in grades 5-8 of NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge, at Presidio Middle School in San Francisco. Talia Herman for NPR Talia Herman for NPR School shootings, social media, beauty standards and fast-changing fashion trends – say that five times fast. Adolescence has always been tough, but the acceleration…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho father killed a neighboring family because he was upset that the neighbor’s 18-year-old son had reportedly exposed himself to the man’s children, a police document alleges. Majorjon Kaylor, 31, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the Father’s Day shooting in Kellogg, nearly 400 miles (644 kilometers) north of Boise. Kaylor shot…

VIRGINIA – The mother of a 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his elementary school teacher was charged on Monday with two US firearms felonies, and her lawyer said she will plead guilty to both offences under a deal with federal prosecutors. Deja Taylor was charged with being a user of illegal drugs in possession of a gun and…

  The project, known as Project Alpha, allows the Metropolitan Police to collect “children’s personal data” from social media sites to identify offenders and secure the removal of videos showing stabbings and shootings from social media platforms such as YouTube, the report said. The police could also be gathering data on much younger children, but police officers are under no…

Mexican prosecutors are investigating what the country’s president on Wednesday called an “execution” after soldiers were filmed beating and then shooting five men they pulled from a crashed pick-up truck. The investigation, confirmed by the defense ministry, follows the publication by media outlets on Tuesday of a video dated May 18 from the northern state of Tamaulipas that showed about…

from the haphazardly-thinking-of-the-children dept We’ve done all we can we’re willing to do to make schools safer. We’ve added more cops, something that sounds like safety but just means we’ve offloaded school discipline to people trained in the art of violence. We’ve locked more doors, added more machinery, and opened up our students to all sorts of pervasive surveillance. And…

  California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed a 28th Amendment to the US Constitution aimed at curbing gun access in response to the increasing number of nationwide mass shootings.The proposed amendment, according to Newsom, would not eliminate the Second Amendment or civilian gun ownership but would introduce measures such as raising the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21,…

Megan Thee Stallion testified that Lanez fired a gun at her feet and shouted for her to dance following an argument in 2020. Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, more than seven months after he was convicted of shooting fellow musical artist Megan Thee Stallion and injuring her feet after a pool party in…

Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- Dozens of Palestinians were injured Tuesday at dawn, as the Israeli occupation forces stormed Askar camp, east of Nablus city in the West Bank. ‘The occupation forces raided the camp, opened fire on the Palestinians and threw toxic gas bombs at them, causing the injury of six, in addition to 185 suffocation cases, Wafa News Agency said….

  WASHINGTON — A shooting on a street in the nation’s capital left three people dead and two others hospitalized Saturday night, police said. Officers responded to the sounds of gunshots around 8 p.m. in the 1600 block of Good Hope Road Southeast and found five victims who had been shot. Two men and a woman were pronounced dead at…

Enlarge this image An armed New Zealand police officer stands at a road block in the central business district following a shooting in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, July 20, 2023. New Zealand police are responding to reports that a gunman has fired shots in a building in downtown Auckland. Abbie Parr/AP Abbie Parr/AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A gunman killed…

COLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — Sheriff Greg Capers was the classic picture of a Texas lawman as he announced the capture of a suspected mass killer: white cowboy hat on his head, gold star pinned to his chest, white cross on his belt and a large pistol emblazoned with his name on his hip. For four days, Francisco Oropeza had evaded…

Eighteen people have been killed and more than 100 injured in mass shootings in the United States during the Independence Day extended weekend, the Gun Violence Archive portal said on Wednesday. “Fourth of July extended weekend mass shootings: 17 mass shootings…18 killed – 102 injured,” it said. In Baltimore, the largest city close to the US capital, two people were…

Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District on Friday night, but police said all were expected to survive. The shooting “appears to be targeted and isolated,” the San Francisco Police Department tweeted. No suspects or arrests were announced, but police said there was “no known threat to the public.” The San Francisco Chronicle reported…

Tens of thousands of people marched on June 9 in another anti-government protest in Belgrade criticizing the government’s response to two mass shootings last month in which 18 people died. The protesters called for the resignation of President Aleksandar Vucic and stuck messages to the door of the government building, including one that said, “Enough is enough.” Cardboard figures depicting…

We’ve written a lot about AB 2273, California’s Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC) that requires websites with users in California to try to determine the ages of all their visitors, write up dozens of reports on potential harms, and then seek to mitigate those harms. I’ve written about why it’s literally impossible to comply with the law. We’ve had posts…