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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s new priority bills focus on school safety, requiring districts to adopt active-shooter plans

More than nine months after the Uvalde school shooting, top GOP lawmakers maintain focus on school safety reforms and investments in mental health resources in hopes it will prevent future tragedies.

The Texas Tribune

Texas House prioritizes armed officer at each school and bolstering teacher quality

DALLAS — Every Texas school would have an armed officer and would-be teachers would receive extra support under legislation prioritized by House Speaker Dade Phelan.

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'No one is safe anywhere': Mother of Michigan State shooting survivor pleads for gun control reforms

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University student Troy Forbush called his mother on the night of Feb. 13 at 8:18 p.m. from Berkey Hall and told her that he had been shot.

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Biden to spotlight gun control in Monterey Park and meet UK, Australia leaders in San Diego

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will travel to California on Monday for a multi-day visit that will include meetings with the leaders of Australia and the United Kingdom in San Diego and a stop in Monterey Park, the site of one of two mass shootings that rocked California in January.

Los Angeles Times

Officer ambushed, shot from behind during traffic stop in a Miami neighborhood, police say

MIAMI — A police officer working an undercover narcotics operation in Miami was shot in the head area during a traffic stop Wednesday — the fourth Miami-Dade officer struck by gunfire in the past seven months.

Miami Herald

Virginia elementary school student who shot teacher won’t face charges

NORFOLK, Va. — The Richneck Elementary first grader who shot his teacher during class in January will not face charges, as first reported by NBC News on Wednesday.

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Jury finds Denver man guilty for role in killing of woman with AR-15 after fender-bender

DENVER — A Denver jury convicted a man of second-degree murder Wednesday for giving a 14-year-old boy permission to shoot at a woman with an AR-15-style rifle after a fender-bender two years ago.

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Senate votes to block changes to D.C.'s crime law

D.C. Council members and dozens of statehood activists marched to the Capitol in protest on Wednesday, decrying the intervention.

Axios

Police release footage of Utah man killed in traffic stop

A suburban Utah police department has released videos of five officers fatally shooting a man

The Independent UK

Report: 6-year-old won't be charged after shooting teacher

The top prosecutor in the Virginia city where a 6-year-old shot and wounded his teacher told NBC News that his office will not seek charges against the child

The Independent UK

Boy, 6, will not face charges for shooting Virginia teacher, say prosecutors

Abigail Zwerner was shot and injured on 6 January at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News

The Independent UK

Louisville police violated constitutional rights, DOJ finds. Consent decree coming

Nearly three years after Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by Louisville police, the U.S. Department of Justice says it found probable cause to believe the Louisville Metro Police Department has violated federal law and the Constitution.

Tribune News Service

Bid to block Illinois’ new assault weapons ban now before federal appeals court

The case of Naperville gunshop owner Robert Bevis appears to be the first to challenge the ban in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A federal judge found it constitutional.

Chicago Sun-Times

15-year-old boy who shot Commanders RB Brian Robinson gets maximum 6-year sentence

A teenager who admitted to shooting Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in juvenile detention.

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Man killed in South Shore double shooting

Both men were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center initially in critical condition. One of the men was later pronounced dead, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man dies weeks after shooting in East Garfield Park

Makel Polk, 23, was shot in the upper back on Feb. 17, 2023.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pregnant woman’s boyfriend left her for dead after she was wounded in shootout during a botched robbery in Belmont Cragin: source

Genesis Escobar, 21, had gotten into a car to rob someone during a drug deal near her home in the 5200 block of West Montana Street, according to a late enforcement source.

The Independent UK

Police interview footage shows killer Paul Flores with black eye after Kristin Smart’s 1996 murder

Killer set to be sentenced this week and faces up to life imprisonment for the 1996 murder

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Man wounded in shooting on CTA bus in Chatham

The man was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.

Liverpool Echo

Police make gun and drug arrests after raiding homes

A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm without a licence

Liverpool Echo

Jury see CCTV of wounded Joseph Nee carried into hospital by 'associates'

Murder trial jury played CCTV footage of his arrival at Whiston Hospital following shooting

Dublin Live

Caught on camera: Shocking CCTV footage shows horror beating in Dublin's Temple Bar

CCTV footage from the Temple Bar area of Dublin city - in which incidents of random violence occurred recent weeks

The Texas Tribune

Texas Senate passes first bill this session, a bipartisan effort to close teen gun loophole

In its first bill passed this session, the Texas Senate sought to ensure juvenile mental health hospitalizations are reported to the federal firearm background check system.

Orlando Sentinel

Suspect pleads not guilty in killings of 3 people including journalist, 9-year-old

ORLANDO, Fla. — The man accused of killing three people and injuring two others in a spree of shootings in Pine Hills late last month has pleaded not guilty to all charges, according to court records.

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The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happened.

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