Victims of the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 people dead have filed a lawsuit seeking $27 billion against local and state police, the city and other school and law enforcement officials for failing to follow active shooter protocol because authorities waited more than an hour to confront the attacker inside a fourth-grade classroom, according to court documents.
Authorities struggled for weeks to find a funeral home willing to dispose of Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos' body after his May rampage that killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
Schools in a rural North Carolina county will now stock an AR-15 assault rifle as officials beef up security measures in the wake of May's deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The Senate on Thursday passed the first major federal gun control bill in decades, breaking the longtime Republican blockade against further restrictions on firearms and sending the legislation to almost certain final approval by the Democratic-run House.
A bipartisan gun-control bill cleared the Senate filibuster hurdle on Thursday, with Republicans providing the necessary votes to all but guarantee passage of the first major federal firearm laws in decades.