The Latest Breaking News from Ralph Yarl

We know now that Andrew D. Lester, the 84-year-old Northlander who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, did not act alone.

There’s an old cliché in America’s gun debate that is so anathema to common sense — Guns don’t kill, people kill — that politically serious defenders of gun culture seldom even invoke it anymore. Like “thoughts and prayers,” it has become a dark and self-defeating punchline. Yet former President Donald…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In explaining his decision not to file a hate crime charge against the 84-year-old man accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said Monday he did not want to risk double jeopardy.

Daniel Ludwig told the Kansas City Star that his grandfather’s account of the events ‘hasn’t been reported’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Theo Davis moved from Washington, D.C., to help pastor a church in Kansas City’s predominantly white neighborhoods north of the Missouri River, a Black church elder called him with a warning:

Three shootings have occurred over the last three weeks in states that have stand-your-ground laws.

In one key respect, Ralph Yarl was fortunate. The wounds the 16-year-old suffered after being shot twice on April 13, 2023, by the owner of the house whose doorbell he rang, thinking it was where he was due to pick up his two younger brothers, did not prove fatal.

Evidence revealed in the Dominion case exposed the channel as the hostage of its viewers’ fantasy: a Trump election victory, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

They were shot after pulling into the wrong driveway, ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car in a parking lot.

As Ralph Yarl begins a long road to recovery and Andrew Lester faces the possibility of a life sentence on felony charges, Io Dodds explains what we still don’t know about the shooting

It took years to break our society; we’ll be a long time making repairs.