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FILE - A Texas Department of Public Safety officer keeps watch on June 3, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, near a memorial outside Robb Elementary School created to honor the victims killed in last a school shooting. As public pressure mounts for more information on the deadly Uvalde school shooting, some are concerned that Texas officials will use a legal loophole to block records from being released — even to the victims' families — once the case is closed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Texas Shooting Records Could Be Blocked by Legal Loophole
  • 13 June 2022
Some are concerned that Texas officials will use a legal loophole to block records from...
Texas Shooting Records Could Be Blocked by Legal Loophole
A back door at Robb Elementary School, where a gunman entered through to get into a classroom in last week's shooting, is seen in the distance in Uvalde, Texas, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Texas Police: Teacher Closed Propped-Open Door Before Attack
  • 31 May 2022
An exterior door at Robb Elementary School did not lock when it was closed by...
Texas Police: Teacher Closed Propped-Open Door Before Attack
FILE - Rescue crews work at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building after the remaining structure was demolished Sunday, in Surfside, Fla., Monday, July 5, 2021. Attorneys for the families who lost relatives or homes in last year’s collapse of a Florida condominium tower that killed 98 people finalized a $1 billion settlement on Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
Judge Gives Initial OK to $1B Deal in Florida Condo Collapse
  • 31 May 2022
A Florida judge gave initial approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion to...
Judge Gives Initial OK to $1B Deal in Florida Condo Collapse
Vincent Salazar, right, father of Layla Salazar, weeps while kneeling in front of a cross with his daughter's name at a memorial site for the victims killed in this week's elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Official: Kids to 911 During Siege: ‘Please Send the Police’
  • 27 May 2022
Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during this week's attack...
Official: Kids to 911 During Siege: ‘Please Send the Police’
The archbishop of San Antonio, Gustavo Garcia-Siller, comforts families outside the Civic Center following a deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Governor: Texas Gunman Said He Was Going to Shoot Up School
  • 25 May 2022
The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas...
Governor: Texas Gunman Said He Was Going to Shoot Up School
FILE - Demonstrators hold a banner to protest the visit of President Donald Trump to the border city after the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 7, 2019. A gunman killing multiple elementary school children and adults in Texas on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, adds to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
School Massacre Continues Texas’ Grim Run of Mass Shootings
  • 25 May 2022
Once again, one of America's deadliest mass shootings happened in Texas.
School Massacre Continues Texas’ Grim Run of Mass Shootings
A woman cries as she leaves the Uvalde Civic Center, Tuesday May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing multiple children and a teacher and wounding others, Gov. Greg Abbott said, and the gunman was dead. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)
Gunman Kills 19 Children, 2 Adults in Texas School Rampage
  • 25 May 2022
An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom at a...
Gunman Kills 19 Children, 2 Adults in Texas School Rampage
FILE- In this Dec. 14, 2012, file photo, parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Once again, multiple people were killed in a shooting at an elementary school, this time in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Sen. Murphy Begs for Gun Compromise After Texas Shooting
  • 24 May 2022
Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who came to Congress representing Sandy Hook, begged his colleagues...
Sen. Murphy Begs for Gun Compromise After Texas Shooting
FILE - Residents watch as a China Eastern passenger jet prepares to take off on a test flight from the new Beijing Daxing International Airport on Monday, May 13, 2019. State media are reporting a Chinese airliner from China Eastern with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, sparking a mountainside fire. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Chinese Airliner Crashes with 132 Aboard in Country’s Southern Province
  • 21 March 2022
China Eastern turned its homepage black and white after the crash.
Chinese Airliner Crashes with 132 Aboard in Country’s Southern Province
Golf balls adorn a makeshift memorial at the Rockwind Community Links, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, in Hobbs, New Mexico. The memorial was for student golfers and the coach of University of the Southwest killed in a crash in Texas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
9 Dead in Crash Involving U. of the Southwest Golf Teams
  • 17 March 2022
The University of the Southwest students and the coach were returning from a golf tournament.
9 Dead in Crash Involving U. of the Southwest Golf Teams
Emergency personnel work at the scene of a fatal fire at an apartment building in the Bronx on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)
Bronx Apartment Fire Kills 19, Including 9 Children
  • 10 January 2022
Trapped residents broke windows for air and stuffed wet towels under doors as smoke rose...
Bronx Apartment Fire Kills 19, Including 9 Children
Bystanders watch as the Philadelphia fire department works at the scene of a deadly row house fire in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Firefighters and police responded to the fatal fire at a three-story rowhouse in the city's Fairmount neighborhood around 6:40 a.m. and found flames coming from the second-floor windows, fire officials said. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
13 Dead, Including 7 Children, in Philadelphia House Fire
  • 5 January 2022
Officials said that there were four smoke detectors in the building but that none were...
13 Dead, Including 7 Children, in Philadelphia House Fire
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