National

via eurweb: A new back-to-school commercial has stirred both debate and outrage across social media for showing teens using ordinary items to survive a school shooting. In the chilling PSA, the young actors demonstrate how book bags, sweaters, folders and skateboards could be used to save lives in case of a school shooting. As noted […]

National

via KHOU: A federal official and a county official close to the situation confirm to KHOU 11 News there are multiple student fatalities at the scene and an officer was also wounded. Law enforcement and ambulances surrounded a high school southeast of Houston early Friday where officials confirm there was an active shooter. The suspect […]

- Local News

It was five years ago on Feb. 27, 2012 that gunfire rang out inside the Chardon High School cafeteria. Three students — Danny Parmertor, 16; Demetrius Hewlin, 16; and Russell King Jr. 17 — died and two others were injured — Joy Rickers and Nick Walczak. It wasn’t long before another student — Thomas “T.J.” […]

- CLE

  Director of the Bereavement Center at Hospice of the Western Reserve, Diane Snyder Cowan, spoke frankly Wednesday about the need for parents to engage in any open discussion to which their children seems to be open. “Let them take the lead,” said Cowan. “It’s really important to express your feelings and learn how to manage […]

National

President Barack Obama is vowing to use “whatever power this office holds” to safeguard the nation’s children, raising the prospect that he will pursue policy changes to stem gun violence in the wake of an elementary school massacre. “Because what choice do we have?” a somber Obama said at a Sunday evening vigil in the grieving […]

National

  We can’t tolerate this anymore.” That’s what President Barack Obama told those attending a memorial service Sunday in Newtown, Connecticut, two days after a man shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 26 people — 20 of them children no older than 7, who would never go on a date, drive a car, […]