The Oakland County, Michigan, Board of Commissioners approved $500,000 on Thursday for an independent review of the emergency response to the 2021 Oxford High School attack.

The board unanimously approved the funds and a resolution calling for an after-action review of the mass school shooting that killed four students and injured seven others,...Read more

ATLANTA — More than a year before Colt Gray allegedly shot and killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School, local investigators questioned the boy about a disturbing tip they’d received from the FBI.

Tipsters had seen someone on the online messaging platform Discord talking about plans to shoot up a school, and alerted the...Read more

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told rallygoers in Arizona on Thursday that school shootings are a “fact of life” and that officials need to bolster security to prevent violence like the deadly rampage this week at a northeast Georgia high school.

“If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared ...Read more

An initiative to create an open primary and switch to a ranked-choice voting system in Idaho will appear on the November ballot.

Only nine weeks ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, an Ada County judge ruled against Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, who brought a lawsuit against the initiative in an effort to stop it from appearing on the...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia and American flags flew at half-staff outside Apalachee High School on Thursday morning, a day after two students and two teachers were gunned down.

Supporters left flowers next to the high school’s welcome sign. And overnight, community members and supporters rushed to donate to the victims’ families.

Nine others ...Read more

To get an idea of how the forces of climate change and extreme heat are transforming the West, consider the summer Phoenix has endured.

On Wednesday, the city experienced the 101st day in a row with temperatures topping 100 degrees, with little relief in sight.

Residents of the desert city are used to broiling summers, but 2024 has been one ...Read more

The U.S., Qatar and Egypt will present a new cease-fire proposal to Israel and Hamas in the coming days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday, as the Biden administration struggles to find a way to end the war in the Gaza Strip.

The top U.S. diplomat said that 90% of the cease-fire deal had been agreed upon and that the remaining ...Read more

Students at Apalachee High School trickled onto campus Wednesday around 8 a.m. for their first class of the day. The new school year had just started only five weeks prior.

Some were in cooking class or giving presentations when warning signs began flashing on the school’s digital blackboards throughout the building: “hard lockdown.” That...Read more

ATLANTA — The father of the 14-year-old boy accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School was arrested Thursday, the GBI said.

Colin Gray, 54, faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children and will be held at the Barrow County Jail. GBI Director Chris Hosey ...Read more

The hottest place on Earth has officially made it through its hottest summer ever, Death Valley National Park rangers said on Thursday.

Death Valley, a popular national park across the California state line, experienced an average 24-hour temperature of 104.5 degrees, besting its previous record of 104.2 degrees, which was set in 2021 and 2018....Read more

“School shooting rn,” an Apalachee High School student texted his mother Wednesday morning.

“I’m not joking,” he said, later adding, “someone’s dead.”

The student’s mom posted a screenshot of the exchange on social media, captioning it her “worst (expletive) nightmare” but noting her child was safe. Her son had texted her...Read more

A Missouri judge on Thursday struck down Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s official description of an abortion rights amendment that would have appeared at polling places across the state on Nov. 5.

Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker found that Ashcroft’s language summarizing the amendment, called Amendment 3, was unfair and ...Read more

Talking about her daughter every day helps Oneida Oliver-Sanders cope with her grief. She tells those who want to know about Sgt. Kennedy Sanders that she was a three-sport athlete. She worked as a middle school community basketball coach and collected tennis shoes. She read Marvel comics. Listened to Beyoncé. Watched the “Abbott Elementary�...Read more

Another EEE case has been reported in the Bay State, raising the risk levels in several communities as health officials remind people to keep using bug spray and reschedule outdoor evening events.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Thursday announced an additional human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and one more human ...Read more

Over the past decade, Georgia Republicans have muscled through a series of measures loosening firearms restrictions while more limited bipartisan proposals aimed at deterring gun violence have stalled.

The mass shooting at Apalachee High School in northeast Georgia on Wednesday that left four dead and a 14-year-old suspect in custody has raised...Read more

ATLANTA — Jackelyn Garcia’s daughter called her from Apalachee High School on Wednesday morning and told her she had been shot.

“Today has been one of my worst nightmares,” Garcia wrote on Facebook. “From sending my baby off this morning to school, to receiving her call saying, ‘Mommy, I’m shot.’”

Melany, her daughter, is ...Read more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead an investigation into the cross-border sewage crisis, measuring the potential health impacts on people who live and work near where millions of gallons of sewage spill over the U.S.-Mexico border from Tijuana, county officials said Thursday.

In cooperation with the county, state and San ...Read more

Dozens of cattle and a moose dropped dead amid an anthrax outbreak in southeastern Wyoming, officials say.

The bacterial disease was detected in multiple beef herds for the first time since the 1970s and in a moose for the first time since 1956, state livestock and wildlife officials said in news releases.

The Wyoming State Veterinary ...Read more