Sarah Hendry, Current Events Beat Writer
• October 7, 2024
The Chicago Transit Authority recently began testing security technology from an artificial intelligence security company as a part of ongoing efforts to address gun violence. The tech, from company ZeroEyes,...
Nineteen people were killed and at least 63 others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago’s most violent weekend of the year so far, the Chicago-Sun-Times reported.
More than half of the weekend’s...
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — Investigators worked to figure out why a boy known as a “regular kid” opened fire outside a Southern California high school on his 16th birthday, killing two students...
A Chicago man has been arrested on felony charges of disorderly conduct after he allegedly made a false report about a gunman on a local college campus.
Fifty-one-year-old Michael Gallo was arrested...
Patsy Newitt, Multimedia Editor
• October 28, 2019
DePaul professors W. LaVome Robinson and Leonard A. Jason received a $6.6 million grant from National Institute of Mental Health for a research program combating violence amongst African American youth...
On a quiet street on Chicago’s South Side, Freddrica Nicholas sits at the kitchen table of her home that also functions as a daycare. Kids of all ages can be heard playing in another room, a mix of her...
There is a weird angst about Chicago, and it comes almost entirely from people outside Chicago.
Two weeks ago, a group of five avid Trump-supporters traveled all the way from Fresno, California to Chicago...
An impromptu 12-hour bus ride isn’t generally considered an ideal weekend activity. But with the U.S. reaching 312 mass shootings in 2019 as of Sept. 29, according the the Gun Violence Archive, many...
The mayor of the California city where a gunman killed three at an annual food festival says the community will mourn the tragedy but will get through it.
Gilroy Mayor Roland Velasco told a press conference...
Tens of thousands of Illinois residents whose gun licenses have been revoked could still be in possession of firearms, according to an analysis of state records by the Chicago Tribune.
The failure of...
Bianca Cseke, Online Managing Editor
• February 25, 2019
With so much attention paid to those who have died from shootings, whether it is mass shootings like last week’s in Aurora, Illinois or the day-to-day violence in Chicago, it can be easy to forget about...
Carina Smith, Nation & World Editor
• February 5, 2018
The first month of 2018 is over, and there have already been over a dozen school shootings across the U.S., raising questions for many about what can be done to stop the violence on campuses.
According...
