Following the Apalachee High School killings in Georgia, the Republican vice-presidential nominee said schools must beef up security but rebuffed stricter gun laws.
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Posted inNation & World, Schools and Education
Georgia school shooting suspect and father appear in court for first time
Colt Gray, 14, appeared before a judge hours after his father was arrested and charged in the case. His father Colin appeared in court minutes after the son.
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Posted inNation & World
Father of Georgia school shooting suspect arrested on charges including second-degree murder
Authorities have charged 14-year-old Colt Gray as an adult with murder in the shootings Wednesday at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
The ‘time for accountability’ is at hand, lawyers for mass shooting victims say
Attorneys for about 90 family members and victims vow action for ‘massive failures’ by authorities who didn’t stop the killer.
Posted inMaine, News
In wake of Lewiston mass shooting, military implementing new policy to reduce blast-related brain injuries
Maine’s congressional delegation has been urging the Pentagon to adopt reforms since an Army reservist who had suffered brain damage from repeated blast exposures killed 18 people and injured 13 others last October.
Posted inNation & World, News
A 20-year-old’s perplexing place in the catalog of American gunmen
His still-evolving portrait evokes the profile of a mass shooter, at least one of whom he researched. But Thomas Crooks wasn’t a mass shooter.
Posted inMaine
Angus King presses military to begin brain screenings immediately
The Army reservist who killed 18 people in Lewiston in October was found to have brain injuries caused by blast exposure during military training.
Posted inNation & World, News
Former Uvalde police chief indicted over response to Robb Elementary shooting
The indictment makes the former Uvalde schools police chief the first officer to face criminal charges in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Republicans block bill to outlaw bump stocks after Supreme Court lifts Trump-era ban
The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., would ban the sale of the devices, similar to the rule issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Posted inMaine
Senate bill contains military blast protection spurred by Lewiston mass shooting
However, the House version of the defense bill, which cleared the House in a partisan vote on Friday, does not contain the Blast Overpressure Safety Act.