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Glencoe's District 35 to decide on security measures
Glencoe School District 35 has received two of the three security audits it commissioned on school safety, and when the third comes in this month, the audits will include recommendations on issues such as security cameras and armed guards for schools,...
Tags: Photography and Video, Photography Supplies and Services, Accounting and Auditing, Health and Safety at School, Services and Shopping
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In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control
HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Michael F. Bennet, Barack Obama, Max Baucus
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Firearms, Behavioral Conditions
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Gun control fervor high, but as usual it will soon pass
This week the U.S. Senate will discuss the expansion of criminal background checks for gun buyers. Just months after one of the deadliest mass shootings by a single American, leading lawmakers suggest support for gun control legislation is bleak, and...Tags: Gun Control, Lake Worth, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Adam Lanza
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California Assembly OKs $24 million to speed seizure of guns
SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly approved $24 million Thursday to speed up the confiscation of guns from Californians who are not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. A day earlier, lawmakers rejected a...
Tags: Schools, Criminals, Gun Control, Teachers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Senate rejects gun background check measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...
Tags: Jeff Sessions, Joe Manchin III, Chuck Schumer, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: Joe Manchin III, Rupert Murdoch, Republican Party, Gun Control, Labor Legislation
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Elmhurst library board rejects request to stop carrying M-rated video games
Rejecting claims of a direct link between violent video games and violent behavior, Elmhurst Public Library board members Tuesday turned down requests by a small group of residents to change the library's selection policy for violent video games....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Libraries, Wii, Gaming, PlayStation 3
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Senate votes down Feinstein's assault weapons ban
WASHINGTON — In a final appeal to her colleagues to reinstate an assault weapons ban, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) displayed on the Senate floor Wednesday a New York Daily News front page from the day after her ban was pulled from a broader...
Tags: Harry Reid, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Mark Kirk
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Assembly panel rejects arming teachers against campus intruders
A state legislative committee on Wednesday rejected a proposal to allow school districts to train teachers and administrators to use guns to protect campuses against armed intruders. Only one member of the seven-member Assembly Education Committee voted...
Tags: Schools, Teachers, Tim Donnelly, Education, Joan Buchanan
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Biden speaks about gun control at University of Baltimore event
Vice President Joe Biden, speaking Tuesday at an event in Baltimore, said he was unsure whether there is enough support in the Senate for what would be the biggest change to federal gun laws in decades. "We may not get it this week, but we will prevail,...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage, University of Baltimore
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Memories of shootings return for Newtown runners
BOSTON (AP) — Laura Nowacki rushed to help the shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. As a first responder, the pediatrician was stunned at the horror she encountered. Four months later, she hurried out of Boston with...
Tags: Massachusetts General Hospital, Martin Richard, Running, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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