Parkland School Tragedy

The family of a teen murdered at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is launching a campaign where re-created voices of gun violence victims will call federal lawmakers. The parents of 17-year-old Joaquin Oliver launched the project on Wednesday, the massacre’s sixth anniversary. Oliver and 16 others died in the shooting. Th...

Seventeen white doves took flight from a parking lot in Coral Springs on Wednesday afternoon. Families and friends of the 17 victims killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School watched the birds and appreciated the symbolism. The annual gathering at the Eagles Haven Wellness Center, which includes an emotional candle-lighting ceremony, has becom...

Wednesday marks six years since 17 students and staff were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, and across Broward schools are honoring the victims and survivors.

Six years later, there is a small memorial on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. There is a lovely tribute garden at the corner of the school grounds. There is, however, no public memorial to the 17 people murdered on Feb. 14, 2018.

Manuel and Patricia Oliver, say the pain of missing their son, Joaquin, is ever-present, and it only gets worse as Feb. 14 approaches.

A lawsuit filed against the Florida sheriff’s deputy who was on campus during the 2018 Parkland school massacre can go forward. Fired Deputy Scot Peterson had moved to dismiss the case before trial. Peterson is being sued by the 17 families of the victims and by survivors of the Valentine’s Day attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Sc...

The attorney for a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is arguing that his client had no legal duty to confront the gunman who murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School nearly six years ago. The attorney asked a judge on Monday to dismiss the lawsuit filed against Scot Peterson by the families of those....

The bipartisan tour was the second one organized by Rep. Jared Moskowitz, each with a closed-door discussion session afterward.

A California man who pleaded guilty to cyberstalking a parent who lost their child in the Parkland school shooting has been sentenced to prison. James Catalano, 62, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by a federal judge, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said Monday. The parent became an outspoken gun control ad...