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PEOPLE.com
April 20, 2018
Nearly two years after eight of his relatives were killed in a massacre in southern Ohio, a little boy who survived the horror still has nightmares, his mother said in a recent interview. On April 22, 2016, seven adults and one teenage boy — all members of the Rhoden family — were fatally shot in four separateÃâà...
Gaston Gazette
April 20, 2018
Today is Friday, April 20, the 110th day of 2018. There are 255 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 20, 1898, the United States moved closer to war with Spain as President William McKinley signed a congressional resolution passed the day before recognizing Cuban independenceÃâà...
CNN
April 20, 2018
Littleton, CO (CNN) Just a few months ago, the word "Columbine" meant nothing to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior Kayla Schaefer. Today, Columbine, might as well be a synonym for "hope." Schaefer, 17, is one of 60 students from Parkland, Florida, who came to Colorado to cement anÃâà...
Cincinnati.com
April 20, 2018
Ask Leonard Manley if investigators will arrest and prosecute the killers who gunned down his daughter and seven members of his family and still -- two years later -- he isn't sure. Manley, who has been both critical and questioning of law enforcement, said he hopes an arrest will come one day in theÃâà...
WOSU Public Media
April 19, 2018
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has yet to announce suspects or arrests tied to the killings. Attorney General Mike DeWine said last year that investigators believe people still aren't being forthcoming with their information about the massacre, perhaps out of fear that their unrelated criminal activityÃâà...
New York Times
April 19, 2018
BANGKOK — For about an hour on Wednesday, the website of Myanmar National Television carried a surprising report: A mass prisoner amnesty the previous day, it said, had included seven members of the country's military who were briefly jailed for a massacre of Rohingya Muslims. The report wasÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
April 19, 2018
How can a film called 4/20 Massacre, billed as "the first stoner slasher film," not be a comedy? Dylan Reynolds' humorless slasher pic follows a quintet of women into the woods and doesn't even wait until sundown to start the carnage, presumably because once people go to bed, the pothead-baiting titleÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
April 15, 2018
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) Executive Director Yousef Munayyer speaks to The Nation about efforts to move the US to hold Israel accountable for its excessive use of force and targeting of Palestinian demonstrators participating in the Great Return March. “The United States could send aÃâà...
Tallahassee.com
April 15, 2018
Law enforcement keeps failing, and people keep dying. Where are the consequences? Where is the accountability? Despite receiving a warning directly from the Russian government, the FBI failed to stop the Tsarnaev brothers from staging the Boston Marathon bombing. Despite having plenty of resourcesÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 14, 2018
At least three Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in time to hear gunshots but did not immediately enter the building where the shooting took place, according to reports they filed after the massacre. The officers said in their reports they were unsure where theÃâà...
The Nation.
April 13, 2018
American Laws Can Help Stop Israeli Massacres in Gaza. American Laws Can Help Stop Israeli Massacres in Gaza. But first, it will require a movement to push Congress and the president to uphold those laws.
Socialist Worker Online
April 12, 2018
On March 30, Israel carried out a massacre as tens of thousands gathered in Gaza to demand the right to return to their homes on land occupied by the Israeli state, and from which they were ethnically cleansed. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed at least 17 and injured 1,500. One week later, on April 6,Ãâà...
Billboard
April 12, 2018
The Stories Behind the Most Enduring Photos From the Route 91 Massacre. News. By David Becker | April 11, 2018 11:40 AM EDT. Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Save. People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was hear on Oct. 1, 2017 in Las Vegas. David Becker/GettyÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
April 12, 2018
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district in the National Assembly has raised the alarm over killings and kidnappings in the state. Sani accused the Kaduna state government of concealing massive killing of citizens in the state, adding that the state is unsafe as Benue andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 11, 2018
Two journalists from Reuters news agency are facing trial for reporting the massacre carried out in the northern Rakhine village of Inn Din. On Tuesday, the Myanmar government announced that the charges against the two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe will proceed. The two journalists have beenÃâà...
The Guardian
April 11, 2018
Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to “10 years in prison with hard labour in a remote area” for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in a village in north-western Rakhine state last September, the army said on Tuesday. The military said in a statement that seven soldiers haveÃâà...
wreg.com
April 11, 2018
That is, until her mother opened up a new chapter in history she had never even heard of -- the 1919 Elaine Massacre in nearby Elaine, Arkansas. “Oh my God. I was a child, and I could not understand it,” said Hammonds. As many as 237 African-American sharecroppers were killed over several days by aÃâà...
New York Times
April 10, 2018
YANGON, Myanmar — Once a week, the two Reuters reporters are shuffled out of their prison cells in Yangon, Myanmar, loaded into the back of a police truck and driven to a nearby courthouse. Wearing handcuffs, the reporters, U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo, hear one or two witnesses testify againstÃâà...
WDSU New Orleans
April 1, 2018
Palm Sunday Massacre: New York man who killed 10 in 1984 freed from prison ... A man who killed 10 people in 1984 in one of New York City's most notorious massacres has been released from prison. ... Thomas killed eight children and two women in a crime known as the Palm Sunday Massacre.
CANOE
April 1, 2018
DETROIT — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Facebook, Google and Twitter by families of patrons killed in the 2016 Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre. In his ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge David Lawson found no legal merit for the case filed in December 2016 in Detroit by the familiesÃâà...
ThinkProgress
April 1, 2018
Friday's massacre coincided with the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt in their quest for freedom and autonomy. Drawing connections between the tragedy and the holiday, a number of prominent Jews spoke out online against theÃâà...
ABC News
March 29, 2018
Six men were sentenced to death by a court in southern Thailand for the massacre of eight members of one family, including three children, over a land and loan dispute. The Krabi provincial court on Wednesday found them guilty of conspiracy to murder and related charges for the killings last July. SeveralÃâà...
Telos Press
March 29, 2018
The ethnic cleansing in Syria is hardly a secret, but it continues unabated. A Syrian refugee and a Holocaust survivor have collaborated on an appeal that includes the following crucial paragraph: The starvation, the torture, the siege and the chemical attacks in Syria can be stopped. Assad's military is farÃâà...
Den of Geek US
March 24, 2018
A very potent strain is stashed in the woods, according to the trailer for the upcoming stoner/slasher 4/20 Massacre. The independent horror film feeds the head, but kills more than the buzz as it leaves nothing from a group of young hikers but a pile of stems and seeds. 4/20 Massacre was written andÃâà...
Las Vegas Sun
March 24, 2018
After the Vegas shooting, vigils and "Vegas Strong" rallies filled street corners, but activism for gun legislation was less focused. Efforts in Congress to ban "bump stocks," devices used in the massacre that allow guns to fire like assault weapons, went nowhere. The Nevada Legislature was not in session.
HuffPost
March 24, 2018
At least 73 teens have been shot to death in the 37 days since that massacre, according to HuffPost's review of a database compiled by Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit organization that tracks shootings across the country. (Because Gun Violence Archive culls its data from media reports, there may beÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 24, 2018
It's a long drive from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City, Utah, about six hours of plains, canyons, mountains, and time to think. Royce Christensen, a 22-year old survivor of the Vegas Strip massacre last October, has a lot on his mind. He's on the road today so he join the March for Our Lives in Salt LakeÃâà...
5newsonline.com
March 23, 2018
“39 Days”: Behind The Scenes With Parkland Students From The Massacre To The March. Posted 3:15 pm, March 22, 2018, by CBS News, Updated at 03:04PM, March 22, 2018Ãâà...
NBC4 Washington
March 23, 2018
Survivors of last month's massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, met with students raised in D.C. who say they've grown up experiencing gun violence in their community. Students from Stoneman Douglas High School participated in a #NeverAgain rally Thursday at Thurgood Marshall Academy.
Herald live
March 23, 2018
The striking image on the front page of yesterday's edition said it all. An 81-year-old woman, who had made her way to Uitenhage's Allanridge Hall to remember the fallen of the Langa Massacre, reduced to tears when a solemn commemoration turned into a screaming match. There may have been many atÃâà...
WLRN
March 23, 2018
The scene at last year's Ultra Music Festival in Miami, with high-rises looming above the venue. In light of last fall's Las Vegas mass shooting, those buildings have Miami police ramping up security,. Credit K. Lepri. One of Miami's most popular music festivals is back. The Ultra Music Festival is expected toÃâà...
CBS News
March 23, 2018
CBS News journalists, embedded with survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, take viewers inside the creation of a movement as students turn grief into action in "39 Days", a one-hour documentary to be broadcast March 24, 2018 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. In the days after a former student atÃâà...
News3LV
March 23, 2018
NEW YORK (KSNV) - MGM Resorts has released surveillance video of the Las Vegas shooter in the days leading up to the massacre last October that left 58 people dead. Watch in Times Video Ãâû. The New York Times was the first to obtain the footage, which shows Stephen Paddock hauling bags of weapons to his suite atÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 23, 2018
The protests follow widespread student walkouts last week, including at schools in Las Vegas, a city still scarred by its own massacre. Unlike the gambling ... Efforts in Congress to ban "bump stocks," devices used in the massacre that allow guns to fire like assault weapons, went nowhere. The NevadaÃâà...
NPR
March 23, 2018
Stephen Paddock, the man who rained bullets down on a crowd of concertgoers last October, killing 58 people, appears in newly released surveillance video to be an ordinary hotel guest and casino patron in the days leading to the massacre. Video and stills provided by MGM Resorts International of theÃâà...
Arizona Daily Sun
March 22, 2018
It wasn't until 20 years after the massacre that the Church of Latter Day Saints acknowledged the role its followers played in the mass killing and, as recourse, executed Lee by firing squad. The ferry operation was turned over to Lee's wife, who ran it for several years before selling the rights to the MormonÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 22, 2018
Omar Mateen, shown in a selfie obtained by authorities, exchanged text messages with his wife from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where he killed 49 people and wounded dozens of others in 2016. (Associated Press). Noor Salman and her husband, Omar Mateen, exchanged text messages duringÃâà...
Common Dreams
March 15, 2018
While Shooting Massacres of Kids Could Not, Dog Killed by Airline Spurs GOP Senator to Act Fast. "One dog dies and we get a bill immediately. Over 7,000 children have died in gun related incidents since Sandy Hook and we get 'thoughts and prayers.'" by. Julia Conley, staff writer. Tweet. Share. Share.
AL.com
March 15, 2018
A record number of Alabama schools participated in an annual school safety awards contest that was first started 16 years ago under former Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor. This year's award judging occurred on Wednesday, the same day that students nationwide joined in for mass protests as part ofÃâà...
ABC News
March 15, 2018
In this Wednesday, March 14, 2018, photo, foot prints of villagers and U.S soldiers' combat boots are reconstructed in My Lai memorial site in Son My, Vietnam. On March 16, 1968, U.S soldiers of Charlie Company, sent on what they were told was a mission to confront a crack outfit of their Vietcong enemiesÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 15, 2018
Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., joined by, from left, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, R-Va., Rep. Mike Bost R-Ill., Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Buddy Carter R-Ga., talks about his bill, the "STOP School Violence Act of 2018," which the House overwhelminglyÃâà...
Eyewitness News
March 15, 2018
CAPE TOWN - A separate case of murder against two of the six accused linked to the Ngcobo police massacre has been postponed. The two men appeared in the Umzimkhulu magistrates court in KwaZulu-Natal this week for a bail application. They're accused of murdering a church leader and his wife.
Reno Gazette Journal
March 15, 2018
Protestors gathered Wednesday, January 3, 2018 in Carson City to call on Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval to undo a decision by the Department of Agriculture to offer approximately 3,000 free range horses to a private group. Benjamin SpillmanÃâà...
ABC News
March 15, 2018
Some students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School say their emotional and physical wounds remain raw a month after a shooting spree left 17 dead on their campus. Interested in Parkland school shooting? Add Parkland school shooting as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Parkland schoolÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
March 15, 2018
The massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, one month ago today, left seventeen children and school staff dead. ... heavy-handed and repressive responses to the evils of terrorism respond to gun massacres by waxing theological and proclaiming that evil cannot be “legislated.
The Pasadena Star-News
March 14, 2018
Katrina Yuzefpolsky was 8 when a man dressed as Santa Claus shot her in the face and killed nine of her family members with guns and a homemade flamethrower at a Christmas Eve party in Covina. More than nine years later, Katrina is 17 and joining a growing number of teenagers who have survivedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 11, 2018
As the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre approaches, survivors of the 1968 massacre spoke to the dpa news agency about the deaths of up to 504 civilians at the hands ... he pondered during a recent meeting at the massacre site. ... "As we do that, we try to make sure there are no more massacres.".
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
March 11, 2018
Sutherland Springs is not the only massacre Ussery denies. His website, whose name you won't read here, also describes as “drills using crisis actors” dozens of other mass casualty events, including the shootings in Parkland, Las Vegas, Charleston, Orlando and Newtown, the Charlie Hebdo attack inÃâà...
OPride.com
March 11, 2018
It was not immediately clear what exactly triggered the latest mass killings. The mayor of Moyale, Aschalew Yohannes, told the state-run Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN) the incident is under investigation. Director of the city's main hospital told OBN that all the victims died from gunshot wounds.
The Oakland Press
March 10, 2018
The second-term Republican congressman from Rochester listed himself as a supporter of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms in the 2016 campaign, and as a holder of a concealed pistol license with an A/A+ rating from the gun rights group the National Rifle Association, or NRA.
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