FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Nikolas Cruz is set to plead guilty to 17 counts of first-degree murder in the 2018 massacre at a Florida high school. Cruz is scheduled to enter the pleas on Wednesday for the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the city of Parkland. The 23-year-old former Stoneman Douglas…
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (AP) — A Florida law that allows judges to bar anyone deemed dangerous from possessing firearms has been used 3,500 times since its enactment after a 2018 high school massacre. But the law is being applied unevenly around the state. Supporters say the measure is needed because the shooter who killed 17…
By TERRY SPENCER , Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre a year ago renewed the national debate on guns and school safety, turned some victims’ parents and surviving students into political activists and at least temporarily ended the local sheriff’s career. But Thursday’s anniversary will primarily be about…
By KELLI KENNEDY , Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School returned to a more secure campus on Wednesday as they began their first new school year since a gunman killed 17 people in the freshman building. But some say they still won’t feel protected despite $6.5 million in…
By KELLI KENNEDY, TERRY SPENCER and ROBERT RAY, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — About 50 uniformed officers marched into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School early Wednesday, just one aspect of the heavy security as classes resumed for the first time since 17 students and teachers were killed by a troubled teenager with an AR-15, thrusting…
By TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students at a Florida high school where 17 of their classmates and staff members were killed returned Sunday to gather their belongings thrown down in panic during the school shooting nearly two weeks ago. Thousands of students joined their parents in walking past the three-story building at…
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 KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students and neighbors describe the suspect in the deadly rampage at a Florida high school as a troubled teenager who threatened and harassed peers, talked about killing animals, posed with guns in disturbing photos on social media, and bragged about target practice in his backyard with a…
By TERRY SPENCER and KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooter, who…
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Parents described a chaotic and frightening situation as they rushed to find their children in the frantic minutes after reports of a shooting at a South Florida high school began to spread. Caesar Figueroa says he was one of the first parents to arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in…