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Georgia official seeks more school safety money after Apalachee High shooting
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. Richard Woods, a Republican elected...
Bus crashes into students and parents in eastern China, killing 11 and injuring 13, police say
BEIJING (AP) — A bus crashed into a group of students and their parents at a school in eastern China early Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring 13, police said. The students and parents were at the gate of a middle school in Tai’an city in the eastern province of Shandong just...
New metal detectors delay students' first day of school in one South Florida district
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The first day back to school in South Florida’s Broward County got off to a chaotic start as a disorganized rollout of new metal detectors kept students waiting in lines long after the first bell rang. At high schools across the nation's sixth largest...
Missouri governor vetoes school safety initiative to fund gun-detection surveillance systems
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson vetoed funding Friday for a school safety initiative that would have used video surveillance software to detect guns, becoming the second governor in as many months to balk at implementing the technology. The Republican...
