MONTCLAIR — A second high school coach of the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar recalled him on Sunday as volatile and intimidating, and said that repeated complaints to school administrators about his behavior failed to prompt any discipline. Evie Cluke coached Ian David Long on...
Immigrant, Muslim Groups Lead Fundraising Efforts for Synagogue Victims
Following Saturday's massacre at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, two crowdfunding appeals have raised close to $725,000 to assist the victims as of Monday morning. Since launching, a campaign on the GoFundMe site had collected nearly $600,000 in donations as of Monday morning while a separate effort on the LaunchGood...
Police: Synagogue Gunman Said He Wanted All Jews to Die
PITTSBURGH — The suspect in the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage and told officers afterward that Jews were committing genocide and that he wanted them all to die, according to charging documents made public Sunday. Robert Gregory Bowers killed eight men and...
For Route 91 Survivors, 'Country Strong' Means Community
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — They have the date 10-1-2017 tattooed on their bodies and have memorial walls of pictures in their homes. One woman made a bracelet out of her Route 91 Harvest festival wristband, while many others can be spotted at concerts wearing shirts that say "survivor." They fly flags...
Say What? MGM Sues Las Vegas Mass Shooting Victims
LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts International has sued hundreds of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in a bid to avoid liability for the gunfire that rained down from its Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas. The company argues in lawsuits filed Friday in Nevada and...
Shooting Suspect Had Bitter History With Maryland Newspaper
A man who police say opened fire at a Maryland newspaper office Thursday, killing five and injuring two others, had a long, acrimonious history with the newspaper, including a lawsuit and years of harassment of its journalists on Twitter. Jarrod Warren Ramos, swiftly arrested by police after the attack, was...
Update: 5 Dead in Shooting Targeting Maryland Newspaper
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A gunman opened fire in a targeted attack on a newspaper office in Maryland's capital Thursday, killing five people and wounding others before being taken into custody in what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history, police and witnesses said. Police...
'Mass Shooting Generation' Students Fed Up With Inaction
Perhaps many of us were wrong about Newtown in December 2012. That’s when we thought the mass shooting of 6- and 7-year-old children in Connecticut would translate into the seminal moment for change as we plod interminably through the polarizing gun debate. We thought Capitol Hill Republicans and Democrats alike...
17 More Shooting Deaths and Still No Common Ground
Let's consider the possibility that both sides — though they are a thousand miles apart — make cogent points in America's torrid debate about gun violence and mass shootings. The "thoughts and prayers" utterances by Second Amendment espousing politicians neither address the problem nor provide even an ounce of consolation...
Valley Republicans Rake in Big Donations from Gun Rights Groups
Whether you are for it or against it, gun control is again leading the national conversation after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history killed 17 people Wednesday, Feb. 14. Those killed included 14 students and three faculty members at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The victims ranged in...