Columbine High School

Daum: Getting it wrong in Boston

2013-04-18 00:00:00

As social media sites have pelted out news of the Boston bombing, playing fast and loose with the numbers of the dead and injured and amplifying hearsay into a cacophony of confusion, one tweet seemed to say it all: "Dear Journalism: Get yourself together...

Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat

2013-04-18 20:11:00

WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...

With Boston blasts, law enforcement plunges into the unknown

2013-04-15 21:42:00

Suddenly, everything looked like a bomb. "Please note," one Boston first responder warned his colleagues Monday, in the churning radio traffic that immediately followed the bombings at the Boston Marathon. "There’s three handbags in front of the...

Burbank teen suspected in Twitter threat to shoot fellow student

2013-04-10 11:09:00

A 16-year-old high school student was arrested in Burbank on Tuesday night after allegedly threatening on Twitter to shoot another student at his school, police said. Authorities received several calls about the alleged threat about 6 p.m. Tuesday,...

Safety 'No. 1 issue,' superintendent says of Twitter threat

2013-04-10 14:48:00

Aside from the reporters outside, it was "business as usual" at a Burbank high school Wednesday, a day after a 16-year-old student allegedly threatened via Twitter to shoot another, the district's superintendent said. Jan Britz said Burbank police...

States move quickly, divergently on gun laws

2013-04-04 05:00:00

Even as momentum for new gun legislation wanes in Washington, lawmakers across the country are fashioning their own response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, resulting in a patchwork that tightens restrictions in some places and eases them...

Hunters seek to boycott Colorado over new gun control laws

2013-03-27 14:02:00

Some hunters are targeting Colorado’s important tourism dollars by urging a boycott of the state because of its recently approved gun control legislation. “It’s a question of principle,”� Chris Jurney, vice president of the...

Colorado Senate OKs universal background checks on gun sales

2013-03-15 14:46:00

A bill to require universal background checks on gun sales was approved in the Colorado Senate on Friday and headed to the House. It is the latest in a series of proposed legislation to tighten gun laws in the state, the fates of which are now being...

Winter TCA: Fox entertainment chief defends 'The Following'

2013-01-08 14:54:00

“The Following,” a new Fox drama about the hunt for a cult of killers is coming under scrutiny in the wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last month. Premiering on Jan. 21, “The Following” stars Kevin...

Sandy Hook violence prevention commission meets for first time

2013-01-24 13:57:00

A 16-member commission, appointed in Connecticut to examine last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school, kicked off its deliberations Thursday, even as the nation continued to wrestle with finding policies on how to deal with gun violence....

Essential reading after Newtown: 'Columbine' by Dave Cullen

2012-12-17 16:12:00

When it comes to events like the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., there are knowns, unknowns and, already, mis-knowns. A photograph of Ryan Lanza circulated asserting he was the shooter, when in fact it was his brother, Adam Lanza. Their mother,...

Disturbed felon had gun permit, arsenal, Minnesota police say

2013-01-22 16:28:00

Christian Philip Oberender killed his mother with a shotgun in 1995, when he was 14. He was committed to a state hospital after being deemed mentally ill and a possible threat. He's since been released, and in May, he got a legal gun permit in...

Frank DeAngelis, principal of Columbine High School, who was inside the school during the 1999 shooting, holds up the keys that contained the master key that allowed him to open a door to help students escape the gunmen that approached them inside the school that day.

2013-02-27 19:20:00

When an artist is telling a story about a shooting that killed children in a school, a very real shooting such as the one at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., that artist has a moral obligation to raise his or her game.

2013-02-15 00:00:00

Tom Mauser, left, and Phyllis and Al Velasquez, all parents of victims of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, view the new atrium under construction in the cafeteria and library areas during a tour at the high school Tuesday.

2012-12-21 00:00:00