WASHINGTON —U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday announced a new team of Justice Department officials and outside experts leading a review of the recent Texas school massacre, saying the inquiry will get to the bottom of what went wrong. “Nothing can undo the pain that has been inflicted on the loved ones of the […]
Democratic lawmakers and the father of a 14-year-old killed in a previous school shooting were among those who unleashed on Republicans. Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, was among those who refused to hide his fury at the right-wing lawmakers whose allegiance to the […]
Chippewa citizen John Wallette was 20 years old in 1910 when he left his home on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota and enrolled at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. There, he trained as a blacksmith, played left end on the school football team and spent at least three summers […]
State and Wildlife troopers on the Kenai Peninsula responded to the Nikiski North Star Elementary School at 9:38 am on Thursday to establish and maintain security after the school staff there reported receiving a threatening phone call. Immediately after the report, the school was put into “Stay Put” status and a preliminary investigation into the […]