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Tree planting in Botetourt County honors victims of Connecticut school shooting
ReporterArbor Day brought a moment of silence for the victims of the Connecticut school shooting, and a living memorial here in southwestern Virginia. Fifth graders at Greenfield Elementary planted a flowering cherry tree Friday afternoon in front of their...Tags: Botetourt County, Human Interest, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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Palm Beach County Sheriff's plan to avert mass shootings
Staff writerMost South Florida law enforcement agencies say they drill continually for mass shooting events, and if they haven't made it a regular practice, they're partnering with larger departments to prepare. But Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said...Tags: Politics, University of Central Florida, Shootings, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Interior Policy
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Resolute, but with an asterisk
WASHINGTON -- The nation demonstrated again last week how resolute it can be when threatened by murderous terrorists -- and how helpless when ordered to heel by smug lobbyists for the gun industry. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's deadly rampage through...
Tags: Fenway Park, Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Religious Conflicts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Somerset school cop deal one step closer to fruition
Staff writer, @DA_AmberRA deal to bring an added layer of security to Somerset school district passed unanimously Monday night during Somerset Borough’s monthly meeting. School and borough officials have been working for months on details of a plan to add a security... -
Plan to sell gun maker needs a background check
What with the terrorist attack in Boston, the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas and the inane vote against gun control in the U.S. Senate, you may have missed the news late last week about Stephen Feinberg. The reclusive co-founder of the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Interior Policy
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Glencoe's District 35 to decide on security measures
Glencoe School District 35 has received two of the three security audits it commissioned on school safety, and when the third comes in this month, the audits will include recommendations on issues such as security cameras and armed guards for schools,...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Photography Supplies and Services, Health and Safety at School, Accounting and Auditing, Photography and Video
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In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control
HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Politics, White House, Interior Policy, Democratic Party
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Politics, Shootings, Psychology, Interior Policy, Firearms
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Gun control fervor high, but as usual it will soon pass
This week the U.S. Senate will discuss the expansion of criminal background checks for gun buyers. Just months after one of the deadliest mass shootings by a single American, leading lawmakers suggest support for gun control legislation is bleak, and...Tags: Politics, National Rifle Association of America, Lake Worth, Shootings, Interior Policy
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California Assembly OKs $24 million to speed seizure of guns
SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly approved $24 million Thursday to speed up the confiscation of guns from Californians who are not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. A day earlier, lawmakers rejected a...
Tags: Teachers, Politics, Brian W. Jones, Teaching and Learning, Interior Policy
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, White House, Mark Pryor, Joe Manchin III
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: Immigration, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Parties and Movements, Joe Manchin III
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