School shootings

The school district apologized for not giving parents any warning or guidance before it sent students home with a Winnie the Pooh-themed book about what to do in the event of a school shooting.

Police said the shooter was in custody.

Students walked out of class at some Massachusetts high schools Wednesday as part of a national protest demanding lawmakers take action to prevent school shootings. Scores of students took to the soccer field at Melrose High School at noon, and dozens more formed a circle at Framingham High School, where they chanted, “End gun violence!” The protest was organized nationwide…

A spate of threats and false reports of shooters have been pouring into schools and colleges across the country for months, raising concerns among law enforcement and elected leaders.

Nashville police said she was also armed with a handgun.

A sheriff said that a body was found Wednesday night during a search in the Colorado woods near where they had found an abandoned car that belonged to a 17-year-old student accused of shooting two administrators at his Denver high school earlier in the day. Park County Sheriff Tom McGraw said the body was found not far from the car...

The two adults injured were transported to hospitals, according to authorities.

The Denver Police Department is on the scene at East High School for a reported school shooting that has sent two faculty members to nearby hospitals. The suspect is believed to be no longer at the location, and investigators are working to develop additional information. Authorities ask to avoid the area while the investigation is underway and to take alternate…

Two school administrators were shot on Wednesday morning at a Denver high school after a handgun was found on a student subjected to daily searches, authorities said.

The Michigan State University police department released footage of the MSU gunman roaming university halls the night of the deadly campus shooting.

“At that moment I thought that I was going to die,” sophomore Claire Papoulias, who said she was sitting in class when a gunman entered, told TODAY. “I was so scared.”

After Abigail Zwerner was shot by a 6-year-old student on Jan. 6, other teachers are speaking out with anger and sadness, but not shock.

The Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student at the Richneck Elementary on Jan. 6 will sue the school district following the school official’s failure to act.

A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his first-grade teacher.

Police say two students were killed and an adult was injured in a shooting at a Des Moines school on the edge of the city’s downtown. An 18-year-old was later charged with murder.

Parents and teachers in the Virginia city where a first-grader shot his teacher have lambasted school administrators for what they say is a misguided emphasis on attendance and other education statistics over the safety of children and staff.

When students return to the Virginia school where a 6-year-old shot a first-grade teacher, the campus will be outfitted with a metal detector.

The manhunt after Sunday’s shooting at the University of Virginia was called off after law enforcement learned during a live press conference that the suspect had been arrested.

Police say the 19-year-old gunman who shot and killed two people at a St. Louis high school purchased the AR-15-style rifle from a private seller after an FBI background check stopped him from buying a weapon from a licensed dealer.

Experts from law enforcement to victims’ families met at a school safety summit in Lexington, Massachusetts, on Wednesday to discuss the impact of school shooting tragedies and what more can be done to better school safety and security. On Dec. 14, 2012, 20 first graders and six educators were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. …