Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed her 4-year-old sibling in Texas. “This involves a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old,” Gonzalez said. “The 3-year-old is the alleged shooter. It appears to be unintentional.” The sheriff called the occurrence “tragic” but “extremely preventable,” saying a group of family and friends—five adults … Read more

TEXAS — Lawyers for a guy accused of killing 10 people in a high school shooting in Texas in 2018 want the judge overseeing the case dismissed because they claim he is biased in favor of having experts rule that the former student is competent to stand trial. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 22, was found unfit to … Read more

Presentation preparations At a Tuesday Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 Board of Education meeting. A discussion about the tutoring program between Oakdale Elementary School and Waukegan High School quickly turned into a memorial for second-grade teacher Kaitlin Schaumberger, who passed away on Friday at age 25. Oakdale Principal Catalina Quinones-Nelson announced that the intended … Read more

On March 9, 2023, Lynda Barr Langford, an attorney, former teacher, and advocate for education passed away. Parents Fredrick Elgin Barr and Lois Watkins Barr, brother Lt. Cmdr. John Frederick Barr, a Navy pilot shot down during the Vietnam War, sister Helen Janette Rhoderick, and aunt Kathie B. Henderson also predeceased her. Her adoptive parents … Read more

DARROW – After a shooting in Ascension Parish on Sunday, a teenage boy was slain and his sibling remains in critical condition. The incident took place in Darrow on LA 22, according to the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office. The other kid was brought to a hospital in severe condition, and deputies discovered a teenage male … Read more

BROCKTON, Mass — A Brockton man accused of shooting and injuring his girlfriend and fatally shooting his stepson early Tuesday morning has been held without bail, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has announced. Shortly after the incident, Justelino Resende, 38, of Brockton, located him at 229 Grafton Street and took him into custody. … Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The investigation continues into the shooting death of a 15-year-old. The child was struck by a shower of gunfire Monday afternoon, only steps from his high school. Grief counselors were at two Philadelphia high schools Tuesday after the 15-year-old was shot 10 times and murdered. Police identified the 15-year-old as Neko Rivera. He’d … Read more

A student at North Carolina State University passed away on Monday after an unintentional overdose, the university announced on Tuesday. The teenager lived off campus, spokesman Mick Kulikowski confirmed. Since the start of the 2022–23 academic year, 11 recorded student deaths have occurred at N.C. State. WRAL initially reported the death on Tuesday afternoon. Among … Read more

Local news sources state that a middle school principal in Kentucky was detained on Monday, his first official workday. The 44-year-old Leroy Littles Sr. began his job as the principal of Olmsted Academy North in Louisville on Monday. According to WDRB-TV, a sign reading “Welcome, Principal Littles” was put in front of the school. Littles … Read more

The second-degree murder conviction of a teenager in the shooting death of a star high school basketball player comes from northwest Louisiana. According to local news sources, a jury in Caddo Parish found 19-year-old Shamichael Antonio Pearson guilty of murdering Devin Dewayne Myers on Thursday. Less than an hour of deliberation by the jury. Myers … Read more