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Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families

Sep. 24, 2024 19:03 PM EDT

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ' Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge. ...

Mom of suspect in Georgia school shooting indicted and is accused of taping a parent to a chair

Sep. 21, 2024 11:24 AM EDT

FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) — The mother of a Georgia teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at his high school has been indicted in connection with an alleged domestic incident last year. The indictment handed down Monday charges Marcee Gray, 43, with exploiting an elderly...

A funeral mass is held for a teen boy killed in a Georgia high school shooting

Sep. 20, 2024 15:33 PM EDT

WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A fourth and final funeral was held Friday more than two weeks after a shooting at a Georgia high school. Roughly 600 mourners honored 14-year-old Christian Angulo during a funeral mass at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Winder, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...

Families of Oxford shooting victims lose appeal over school's liability for tragedy

Sep. 19, 2024 16:25 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Oxford school district on Thursday in a lawsuit that seeks to hold employees partly responsible for a shooting that killed four students and wounded others in 2021. The court, in a 3-0 opinion, said lawyers for the...

Days after posting mugshot of a boy accused of school threat, sheriff puts video of 2 teens online

Sep. 18, 2024 20:56 PM EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among parents that their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Sandy Hook or Uvalde — or any other...

After shooting at Georgia high school, students will return next week for half-days

Sep. 17, 2024 19:21 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Students at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta will return to campus for half-days beginning next week, Barrow County school officials announced, after a Sept. 4 shooting that killed four people and injured nine others. The school system northeast of Atlanta said...

Florida sheriff fed up with school shooting hoaxes posts boy's mugshot to social media

Sep. 17, 2024 11:27 AM EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he's posting the mugshot of any offender on social media. Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the...

Funerals held for teen boy and math teacher killed in Georgia high school shooting

Sep. 14, 2024 17:46 PM EDT

JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) — Funeral services for a teenage boy remembered for his endearing smile and a math teacher known for her dedication to students were held Saturday, 10 days after both were killed by a gunman who opened fire at a Georgia high school. Family, friends and...

911 calls overwhelmed operators after shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School

Sep. 13, 2024 20:22 PM EDT

WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county's emergency call center was overwhelmed by calls on Sept. 4 about a school shooting at Apalachee High School, records released Friday by Barrow County show. Local news organizations report many of the 911 phone calls were not released under...

The teen accused in Georgia's high school shooting enrolled 2 weeks late and was often absent

Sep. 13, 2024 19:33 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The 14-year-old who is accused of killing four people in a Sept. 4 shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia started school two weeks late and then was absent for nine more days before the shooting, investigators said Friday. Colt Gray was first enrolled at the...