WINDER, Ga. - Mass shootings have effects on communities that are felt long after the day’s tragedy. School shootings in particular can have physical, emotional and behavioral effects on kids ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For nearly a week, families whose lives were upended by a Nashville elementary school shooting took turns sharing dark details to Tennessee lawmakers. Their children thought ...

There were 46 school shootings in 2022, the most in at least the past 25 years. "These students that have past trauma or anxiety or don't realize that it's a simulation, these can be very ...

The massacre at Columbine on April 20, 1999, during which 12 students and one teacher were killed, wasn’t the United States' first mass shooting at a school, nor would it be the last. But media ...

DENVER (AP) — Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math ...

Eight years ago, Brenda Valenzuela survived a mass shooting. Now she must send her own children to school. Brenda Valenzuela and her family attended a middle school walk-through before the first ...

A second-grade teacher discusses her realization that she's no safer from school shootings now than she was as a kindergartener in 1999.

Loss, coupled with an increase in school shootings in 2022, has built up layers of trauma in some young people, said Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at University of ...

At state capitols, families are retelling tragedies caused by mass school shootings hoping lawmakers will reconsider firearm policies. Families share trauma in gun law push but get mixed results ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For nearly a week, families whose lives were upended by a Nashville elementary school shooting took turns sharing dark details to Tennessee lawmakers. Their children ...

Throughout the corridors of many state Capitols, families are sharing emotionally gutting stories of tragedy caused by mass school shootings with the hope that revealing their trauma will convince … ...