Author: Susan Svrluga
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The lives lost at Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas
At least 10 people were killed Friday in a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, a deadly rampage that has forced the Southeast Texas community to become the latest to grapple with gun violence in the nation’s schools. They were attending art class during first period — just after 7:30 a.m. — when a…
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Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing up to 10
SANTA FE, Tex. — Ten people were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a high school here in Southeast Texas by a student wielding two of his father’s guns, authorities said. Police were also investigating explosive devices found at the school and elsewhere in the community. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said that in…
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‘We will keep coming back:’ Richard Spencer leads another torchlight march in Charlottesville
Richard Spencer, who in August led white nationalists and white supremacists in a torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus that touched off a weekend of deadly clashes, returned Saturday night to Charlottesville. Spencer, a white nationalist, posted video on social media of followers carrying torches to the statue of Robert E. Lee, which…
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Otto Warmbier has extensive loss of brain tissue, no obvious signs of trauma, doctors say
CINCINNATI — Otto Warmbier, who was medically evacuated from a 17-month detainment in North Korea this week, has extensive loss of brain tissue and is in a state of unresponsive wakefulness, UC Health doctors said Thursday afternoon. Doctors said they don’t know what caused the brain damage. When asked whether it could be the result…
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Student Otto Warmbier, said to be in a coma, released from North Korea
CINCINNATI — A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night. The 22-year-old’s return marks an end to the ordeal that his family has been through, not knowing what had happened to Warmbier since…
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Penn State student said frat brothers ignored pleas to help classmate who died after hazing
At first, Cordell Davis thought his fellow pledge had just had too much to drink, he said. They were new initiates to Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State and had just run the gantlet — a series of stations where they guzzled beer, wine and vodka as fast as they could. But Tim Piazza…
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Yale renames Calhoun College because of historic ties to white supremacy and slavery
Yale University will rename one of its residential colleges, replacing the name of an alumnus remembered for his role in the Confederacy and advocacy of slavery with that of an alumna who was a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist who helped transform the way people use technology. The decision to rename Calhoun College reverses one…