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No injuries after shots fired outside graduation
Macon County School Superintendent Jacqueline Brooks says shots were fired after a high school graduation ceremony in Tuskegee, with no injuries reported. Brooks tells WSFA 12 News (http://bit.ly/16b6W3h ) the graduation Wednesday evening was for Booker T. Washington High School and was being held at the Chappie James Center at ...
Conn. bill gives families say over Newtown records
The public release of any photograph, videotape or digital recording related to last year's deadly Newtown elementary school shooting would require the written consent of victims' family members, according to a working draft of a bill released Wednesday by the governor's office. The bill, crafted privately by Gov. Dannel P. ...
DONORS URGE CUOMO TO PRESS FOR PUBLIC FINANCING OF STATE CAMPAIGNS
c.2013 New York Times News Service ALBANY, N.Y. — As the capital is engulfed in scandals, advocates of campaign finance reform are intensifying their pressure on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, urging him to persuade the Legislature to rewrite state elections law in the hope that change in New York could ...
Suit filed over Conn. gun law passed after Newtown
A group of Connecticut organizations that support gun rights, pistol permit holders and gun sellers has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials, arguing the state's new gun control law violates their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs are seeking a federal court injunction ...
Lawsuit filed against state of Conn. over gun law
A group of Connecticut organizations that support gun rights, pistol permit holders and gun sellers filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials, arguing the state's new gun control law violates their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs are seeking a federal court injunction ...
Universal background checks clears state Senate
Legislation mandating universal background checks for gun transactions in Nevada cleared the Senate on Wednesday along a party lines vote. Passionate opinions flared from both sides of the aisle, with Democrats trumpeting SB221 as a step in the right direction toward reducing gun violence in the Silver State that needed ...
Bill allows Newtown families to release records
A bill crafted behind the scenes in Connecticut is requiring the written consent of family members of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims before certain records concerning the shooting, such as photos and videotapes, are publicly released. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office released a working draft of the bill Wednesday. ...
Newtown picks neighbor as new Sandy Hook principal
The Newtown Board of Education has unanimously hired a principal from neighboring Bethel to lead the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The News-Times of Danbury reports (http://bit.ly/11a82mF ) that Kathleen Gombos, the principal at the R.M.T. Johnson School in Bethel, was hired Tuesday night to become principal at Sandy Hook. The ...
Ohio student moved from hospital after shooting
A 17-year-old high school student who shot himself in a classroom last month continues to make progress in recovery efforts, his family said Wednesday. The teen has been transferred to a rehabilitation facility, a little more than three weeks after he was hospitalized in critical condition, a statement from his ...
Piers Morgan writing book about life at CNN
Piers Morgan is going behind the scenes. The host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" has a deal with Gallery Books for "Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney." Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Wednesday that the book is scheduled for October. Morgan, in a statement issued ...
4 teens shot at high school graduation party
Authorities say four teenagers were shot at a high school graduation party in Huntsville, and authorities were searching for the gunman early Wednesday morning. WAFF-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1a4MyNq) that the gunfire happened in the early hours Wednesday at a home on Michael Drive. Madison County sheriff's deputies say a fight broke ...
Ohio school shooting victims' families sue charity
Relatives of three teenagers killed in a northeast Ohio school shooting filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a charity that maintains a trust fund set up first to benefit the victims' families and also to support the well-being of students and others in the affected community. The lawsuit against United Way ...
GOP Senate hopeful Gomez targets Markey in TV ad
Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez has launched a new television ad criticizing what he calls the "dirty politics" of Democratic rival Edward Markey. In the 30-second spot, a narrator says Markey has compared Gomez to Osama bin Laden and "actually blames Gomez for the Newtown shooting." Markey has faulted ...
Judge sets date for Desmonte Leonard hearing
A Lee County judge has scheduled a hearing for a man accused of killing three people at an Auburn apartment complex last year. Circuit Judge Jacob A. Walker set 23-year-old Desmonte Leonard's hearing for Oct. 15 in Lee County Court. Walker said if either side wanted a hearing earlier they ...
Minn. session '13: What got done, what didn't
Minnesota state lawmakers promised when the legislative session began that their top priority was setting a new state budget. To that end, they produced a $38.3 billion two-year spending plan that hikes taxes on top income earners and on cigarettes, and distributes hefty spending increases to public schools, freezes tuition ...
Committee OKs universal background checks for guns
Family members of victims slain by various acts of gun violence across the country converged on Nevada's Capitol Tuesday urging lawmakers to approve universal background checks on gun purchases in the Silver State. Shortly after the speeches ended, members of the Senate Finance Committee did just that by voting 4-3 ...
Ala. legislators' view of session depends on party
Shortly after the Legislature's 2013 session ended, the public address system in the Senate began playing a recording of Otis Redding singing the bluesy lyric, "They call me Mr. Pitiful." It was fitting music for the Democratic minority in the Legislature, which failed to pass its top priority: expanding the ...
With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely
A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely. The technology, but not an actual gun, was demonstrated Tuesday at a wireless technology conference in Las Vegas ...
2 shot at practice for LR high school graduation
Authorities say two people have been wounded in a shooting during graduation practice for a Little Rock high school. North Little Rock police said they were called at about 11 a.m. Tuesday to Verizon Arena, where a male and a female were wounded. Police say the female victim was a ...
Official: No drugs, alcohol found in US gunman
Toxicology tests on the body of the Newtown school shooter did not turn up any alcohol, illegal drugs or prescription medications, an official close to the investigation said Tuesday. Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 before killing himself ...
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