PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of last week’s deadly shooting rampage, will remain closed Tuesday and Wednesday. The statement issued by the Broward County Schools on Monday said “our hearts remain with the victims and families … as our community copes with the aftermath and recovery…
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The couple who took in the Florida school shooting suspect after his mother died says he told them he was sorry after the shooting. Speaking Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” James and Kimberly Snead said they’ve only seen Nikolas Cruz once since the shooting that killed 17 when they briefly…
By CATHERINE LUCEY, Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump lashed out at the FBI Saturday night, saying the agency “missed all of the many signals” sent by the suspect in the Florida school shooting and arguing they are “spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.”…
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The 19-year-old suspect in the Florida school shooting that killed 17 people didn’t know how to use a microwave, didn’t pick up after himself and didn’t know how to do his own laundry. The family that took him in following his mother’s death spoke to the Sun Sentinel. The paper published…
By JASON DEAREN, ALLEN BREED and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of angry students, parents, teachers and neighbors of a Florida high school where 17 people were killed demanded on Saturday that immediate action be taken on gun-control legislation, insisting they would not relent until their demands were met. The rally in…
By TERRY SPENCER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — As families began burying their dead, authorities questioned whether they could have prevented the attack on a South Florida high school where a gunman took the lives of 14 students, the athletic director, a coach and a geography teacher. At funerals…
By PETER ORSI and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook south and central Mexico Friday, causing people to flee swaying buildings and office towers in the country’s capital, where residents were still jittery after a deadly quake five months ago. Crowds of people gathered on Mexico City’s central Reforma…
By KELLI KENNEDY, CURT ANDERSON and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The FBI received a tip last month that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a “desire to kill” and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents failed to investigate, the agency said Friday. Florida Gov. Rick…
By ALAN FRAM and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has left hundreds of thousands of “Dreamer” immigrants in limbo, rejecting rival plans that would have spared them from deportation and strengthened the nation’s border security. Senators dealt President Donald Trump an especially galling defeat as more than a quarter of fellow Republicans…
By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Months before authorities say Nikolas Cruz walked into his former high school and slaughtered 17 people, the troubled teen began showing what may have been warning signs he was bent on violence. “Im going to be a professional school shooter,” a YouTube user with the screen name…