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Brent Kiger, Olathe Public Schools' director of safety service, displays a panic-alert button while students at Olathe South High School rush between classes Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Olathe, Kan. The district introduced the buttons, which allow staff to trigger a lockdown that will be announced with flashing strobe lights, a takeover of staff computers and a prerecorded intercom announcement, at the start of this school year as part of $2.1 million plan to make district schools more secure. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Back to school, with panic buttons: The post-Uvalde scramble
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Sun,08/21/22-10:53PM , 158 Reads
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Melissa Lee comforted her son and daughter after a student opened fire in their suburban Kansas City high school, wounding an administrator and a police officer stationed there.
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This handout photo provided by The Roberts family shows Cooper Roberts who along with his twin brother and parents attended the July 4 parade in Highland Park, Ill. Cooper was struck in the chest in a hail of gunfire that left dozens of others wounded and seven dead, said Tony Loizzi, a family spokesperson. (The Roberts Family via AP)

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8-year-old paralyzed in parade attack awake, asking for twin
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Thu,07/07/22-5:20PM , 184 Reads
An 8-year-old boy whose spine was severed in the shooting at a Fourth of July Parade is conscious for the first time since the attack and asking to see his twin brother, his family said Friday.
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A section of a classroom door from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, is seen as Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testifies at a Texas Senate hearing at the state capitol, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Two teachers and 19 students were killed in last month's mass shooting in Uvalde. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Unlocked doors were 'first line of defense' at Uvalde school
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Tue,06/21/22-7:18PM , 141 Reads
The Uvalde massacre began after the 18-year-old gunman entered the school through a door that could only be locked from the outside then got inside a classroom that had a busted lock, experts testified Tuesday.
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University of Oregon students and staff protest on the steps of Johnson Hall on the UO campus in Eugene, Ore. Thursday May 8, 2014, against sexual violence in the wake of allegations of rape brought against three UO basketball players by a fellow student. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch, File)

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Campus sex assault rules fall short, prompting overhaul call
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Thu,06/16/22-9:11AM , 171 Reads
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What Karla Arango says started as a dorm-room sexual assault got even worse as word spread around campus. Her attacker’s fraternity brothers snubbed her, she says, whispering about her in the cafeteria, blocking her phone number and unfriending her on social media. Soon her grades were slipping.
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