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2 Students, Suspect Injured in Shooting Inside Md. High School (NBC Washington)
A student pulled out a gun and shot two other students at a high school in southeast Maryland Tuesday morning before the shooter was wounded, the St. Mary’s County sheriff says.
The gunman entered Great Mills High School in Great Mills at the beginning of the school day and shot a female student in a hallway, Sheriff Tim Cameron told News4. A male student also was hit by a bullet. [Read More]
Package believed bound for Austin explodes at Texas FedEx facility, police say (The Washington Post)
A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility early Tuesday, law enforcement officials said, opening another potential front in investigations into a series of blasts that have left the Texas capital gripped with fear.
The explosion happened shortly after midnight at the facility in Schertz, Tex., just northeast of San Antonio. But few other details were immediately available, including where the package entered the FedEx system, its specific destination and the composition of the device.
Schertz police said the explosion came from a package in the sorting area of the facility. One person was treated by medical teams and released at the scene, the police department said in a statement posted on Facebook. [Read More]
James Comey weighing film or TV deal for highly anticipated memoir: Report (Washington Examiner)
Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly weighing selling the rights to his highly anticipated memoir to the TV or film industries.
“A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” is set to hit store shelves on April 17.
The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday that Comey’s agents were in Los Angeles last week accepting pitches.
Comey had not previously thought about a film or TV deal “until a flood of people in Hollywood called” after the book deal was announced in August, the report said. [Read More]
Mississippi imposes toughest abortion ban in US; clinic sues, hearing set (USA Today)
Mississippi moved quickly toward a legal confrontation over the nation’s most restrictive abortion law Monday.
Within six hours, the governor signed a bill banning most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, the state’s lone abortion clinic sued, and a federal judge set a Tuesday morning hearing to consider blocking the restrictions.
Abortion opponents sought the confrontation, hoping federal courts will ultimately prohibit abortions before a fetus is viable. Current federal law blocks such restrictions by states. [Read More]
Police and parents in California were reportedly outraged after students at a high school magazine published cartoons depicting President Donald Trump as a Nazi and an officer wearing KKK garb while aiming a gun at a black child.
“The Pawprint,” a student publication at the prestigious Bonita High in LaVerne, featured two provocative cartoons that were apparently pulled from Google Images, Fox Los Angeles reported.
One drawing shows a swastika hiding underneath Trump’s hair. Another portrays a uniformed police officer in a white hood pointing a pistol at a baby-faced black child holding a bag of skittles, in an apparent reference to Trayvon Martin – the teen who bought the candy before being shot by George Zimmerman in 2012. [Read More]
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