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    FILE - In this May 22, 2018 file photo, the spire of the Baker-Berry Library stands above The Green at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. The school announced Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, its new unified policy on sexual misconduct for faculty, students and staff will provide clarity and consistency across its campus. The new policy takes effect on Sept. 1. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
    August 13, 2019 - 4:41 pm

    Dartmouth announces new sexual misconduct policy

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College on Tuesday announced a new unified policy on sexual misconduct aimed at providing clarity and consistency for faculty, students and staff across the Ivy League campus. The new policy, effective Sept. 1, is part of the school's broader effort launched more than...
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    A TuffyPack ballistic shield sits on top of a backpack it will be inserted into before a shooting demonstration at the Shiloh Shooting Range, Friday, August 9, 2019, in Houston. The company produces some bullet-resistant backpacks but the bulk of the business is in removable ballistic shields that are inserted in backpacks. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
    August 09, 2019 - 4:57 pm

    Mass shootings give rise to bullet-resistant backpacks

    NEW YORK (AP) — Companies like Guard Dog Security, TuffyPacks and Bullet Blocker are peddling bullet-resistant backpacks for children in time for the back-to-school shopping season. But critics argue they are using tragedy as a marketing opportunity and exploiting parents' worst fears. Safety is...
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    Cardinal Newman School in Columbia, S.C., is seen in this photo on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Parents with students at the private Catholic school are angry officials waited two weeks to let them know a 16-year-old student was expelled and arrested after authorities said he made racist videos and threatened to shoot people (AP Photo / Jeffrey Collins)
    August 08, 2019 - 4:00 pm

    Sheriff: Teen's racist videos show SC needs hate crime law

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff says he couldn't charge a teen who made racist videos shooting at a box he said represented black people until the 16-year-old threatened to shoot up his Catholic school. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Thursday the case shows why South Carolina...
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    FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2013, file photo, Gun rights supporters gather at a Guns Across America rally at the Texas state capitol. After three dozen people were fatally shot at a church in Sutherland Springs and a suburban Houston high school, Texas Republicans expanded gun rights instead of restricting them. The state’s latest mass shooting that killed 22 people at an El Paso Walmart is unlikely to push the state toward any new gun control measures . (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
    August 08, 2019 - 3:00 pm

    Texas relaxed gun laws after recent mass shootings

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — After dozens of people, including toddlers and teenagers, were gunned down in separate mass shootings at a church Sutherland Springs and a high school in suburban Houston, Texas Republicans came to the Capitol this year with their eyes on new gun laws. The goal was not to limit...
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    President Donald Trump talks to reporters aboard Air Force One after visiting Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    August 08, 2019 - 11:44 am

    The Latest: Video shows Trump joking about crowd sizes

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's visit to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas (all times local): 11:25 a.m. President Donald Trump joked with medical professionals about his political rally crowd sizes as he toured an El Paso hospital in the wake of Saturday's mass shooting...
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    August 08, 2019 - 9:35 am

    19-year-old accused of threatening school online

    ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia say a 19-year-old was arrested after commenting about shooting and blowing up a school on a video game forum. News outlets report Kevin Sorrells was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony terroristic threats. A news release from Athens-Clarke County Police...
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    Demonstrators hold a banner to protest the visit of President Donald Trump to the border city after the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Trump headed to El Paso, after visiting Dayton, Ohio on Wednesday to offer a message of healing and unity, but he will be met by unusual hostility in both places by people who fault his own incendiary words as a contributing cause to the mass shootings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
    August 07, 2019 - 10:30 pm

    Texas governor says 'no red flags' in El Paso suspect's past

    EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday he's not aware of any "red flags" in the suspected El Paso gunman's past and made no mention of taking major gun-control measures in Texas, where three mass shootings since 2017 have killed more than 50 people. Abbott, a Republican, said racism...
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    Mourners write on Keyla Salazar's casket during the 13-year-old's funeral on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in San Jose, Calif. Salazar and two others were killed when a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival July 28. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
    August 07, 2019 - 12:27 am

    Funeral instead of 14th birthday for teen killed at festival

    SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Mourners used colored markers to write messages on Keyla Salazar's white casket before a funeral Tuesday for the middle-school teenager killed in a mass shooting at a California food festival. "Keyla, you're an angel. We will never forget you!" read one. Another said, "Keyla...
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    In this Sept. 6, 2016, photo, students at William Hackett Middle School pass through metal detectors on the first day of school in Albany, N.Y. Schools around the country have been setting up teams to assess threats posed by students who display signs of violence like the former student who compiled a “hit list” years ago in high school and went on to kill nine people in a weekend shooting in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
    August 06, 2019 - 4:10 pm

    Putting together the puzzle: School teams assess threats

    There were so many questions after 17-year-old Ely Serna brought a shotgun to his Ohio school and opened fire in 2017, wounding two. Along with the whys, West Liberty-Salem High School assistant principal Andy McGill recalled thinking, "Is there something I missed?" "I never would have thought in a...
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    FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013, file photo, firearms training unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting, during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee in Hartford, Conn. Gunmaker Remington Arms filed a request on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a Connecticut court ruling that reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. Remington cited a 2005 federal law that shields gunmakers in most cases from liability when their products are used in crimes. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
    August 01, 2019 - 2:56 pm

    Gunmaker asks US Supreme Court to hear Sandy Hook appeal

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal Thursday of a state ruling against the company. Remington Arms, based in Madison, North Carolina, cited a much-debated 2005 federal law that shields...
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