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The Missouri House passed a bill that makes changes in the concealed weapons law. Currently, the law requires a holder to be at least 23, among other conditions. The existing law also allows Missouri universities to institute a policy to make them “gun-free zones.” When Missouri’s original conceal-and-carry law was passed, the University of Missouri promptly adopted the policy making the campus a gun-free zone. The proposed law would lower the age of a concealed-carry permit holder to 21 and take away the right of public colleges and universities to ban concealed carry weapons on campus. As this bill started...

At least 10 people were shot dead this morning and eight injured after a student went on the rampage at his campus in Baku, the capital of oil-rich Caspian state of Azerbaijan. The student opened fire after a dispute with other members of his college faculty, the Russian news agency Interfax reported this morning. He then shot himself. According to witnesses a quarrel erupted on the campus of the Azeri state oil academy in Baku. One student produced a pistol and started shooting at the others point-blank. He then ran into the academy building and continued to fire. The news...

'THE HOLSTER IS A STATEMENT,' says UConn sophomore Philip Axelrod, 20, of Meriden, who is organizing a weeklong campaign on the Storrs campus next week, in which he and about a dozen other UConn students will wear empty holsters to class to protest their inability to carry handguns on campus. (PATRICK RAYCRAFT / HARTFORD COURANT / April 16, 2009) Philip Axelrod and Sara Adler say they don't want to be defenseless targets. "There are people out there who are off-balance and who shoot up schools," Axelrod, 20, said. "I don't want to be caught up in a situation where I...

Ten years ago, Paul Lombardo was teaching at Eastlake Middle School. Like any other teacher, student or administrator who walked into a school on April 20, 1999, Lombardo had no idea that the day's events would forever change how safety was viewed at public schools across the country. That day two students walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., and proceeded to shoot and kill 12 of their classmates and one teacher before killing themselves. "Ten years ago, or even throughout my whole life, if you had told me that was going to happen in my lifetime or that...

CNN) -- Students at Radford University in Virginia locked their doors and were being warned to stay inside Thursday after a man was shot and killed near campus. A man was shot in the chest and killed in a residential area a couple of blocks from the school's Radford, Virginia, campus at about 9:10 p.m., according to university spokesman Michael Hemphill. He said authorities believe the shooter then fled onto campus. In a series of phone calls, e-mails and text messages, students were being warned that the university was on lockdown.

A 16-year-old charter high school student allegedly struck out against a classmate who had been bullying him Wednesday by stabbing the youth with a scissors in a school hallway. Chicago Public Schools officials said the stabbing happened during a "conflict resolution" session -- in which the perpetrator and his father had come to meet with the dean of academics over how to address threats from the alleged bully. CPS officials said the father and son had been meeting with school officials on the issue just before 9 a.m., when the son left the dean's office and encountered the alleged bully...

508 Chicago School Students Shot In 16 Months CBS News Interactive: Guns In America CHICAGO (CBS) ― Twenty-five Chicago Public School students have been murdered this year. As shocking as that number is, there is another figure that's very disturbing as well: the number of students who have been shot in a 16-month period is enough to fill an elementary school - 508 students, according to school officials. CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago's Chief Correspondent Jay Levine asks why, and what is being done to stop it. Think about it. By this time tomorrow, odds are at least one Chicago...

Report of man with gun in HR Bright bldg near Chem,Police searching. Seek shelter, avoid area. 5:26pm 3-06-09

The disarming this month of 25 knife-wielding teddy bears by UW-Platteville police has prompted a campuswide discussion on the boundary between free expression and campus safety. The bears were part of a student art display, propped up in neat rows on the floor of the main lobby of the UW-Platteville Art Building with sharp kitchen knives in their plush laps. A campus police officer who was securing the building on the morning of Feb. 7 — a Saturday — was alarmed by the artwork and chose not to open the building, instead calling the chairman of the art department. Because...

For CCSU student John Wahlberg, a class presentation on campus violence turned into a confrontation with the campus police due to a complaint by the professor. On October 3, 2008, Wahlberg and two other classmates prepared to give an oral presentation for a Communication 140 class that was required to discuss a “relevant issue in the media”. Wahlberg and his group chose to discuss school violence due to recent events such as the Virginia Tech shootings that occurred in 2007. Shortly after his professor, Paula Anderson, filed a complaint with the CCSU Police against her student. During the presentation Wahlberg...

(Undated) -- Virginia Tech will open an archive of documents related to the April, 2007 campus massacre to the public on Monday. The mass shootings left 32 students and professors dead along with gunman Seung-Hui Cho. Documents will include materials related to Cho and his academic career at Virginia Tech along with e-mails from university officials on the day of the massacre. It will not include any personal information about the victims. The 77-hundred documents were made available to families and victims of the shootings in mid-December as part of a negotiated settlement. The public archive will be available on...

Concealed weapons should be allowed on college campuses and other public gatherings, a lawmaker told a House committee on Friday, while opponents to a bill that would loosen gun restrictions say it could have violent, unintended consequences. North Dakota bars bringing permitted concealed weapons to public gatherings and places such as universities, but a measure introduced by Rep. Duane DeKrey, R-Pettibone, would change that. The bill would still prohibit concealed weapons on K-12 campuses. "We always have people that seem to be mentally ill or have other problems," said DeKrey, adding he introduced the measure in light of the 2007...

BLACKSBURG -- Virginia Tech police on Thursday released gruesome details of a killing in a campus cafe, as students wondered why a campus that went two decades without a murder before the April 16, 2007, shootings has become the site of so much tragedy. When police arrived Wednesday night at Au Bon Pain inside the Virginia Tech Graduate Life Center, they found a decapitated female victim who had arrived on campus just two weeks ago and a young man they have now charged with killing her. The events have shocked a campus still coping with the 2007 shootings of 32...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A female Chinese graduate student has been decapitated by a fellow student at Virginia Tech, the scene of the worst school shooting in US history in 2007, police said Thursday. At approximately 7:00 pm Wednesday (0000 GMT Thursday), Xin Yang, a 22-year-old graduate student from Beijing, was killed at an Au Bon Pain cafe on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, university officials said. They added that emergency contact records suggest that Yang and the student who murdered her, Haiyang Zhu from Ningbo, China, knew each other. According to officials, witnesses said Zhu, 25, attacked Yang...

No details yet. Alert sent to all students: VT Police have confirmed a murder in the Graduate Life Center. A suspect is in custody. Stay where you are and stay vigilant. Stay away for GLC. 8:16pm

A double slaying east of Colorado Springs on Thursday was the result of a gang-related clash over a stolen iPod, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said. The suspect, 19-year-old Juan Vasquez, was arrested early Friday in the shooting deaths of two male high school students at a park in the Cimarron Hills area, sheriff's spokeswoman Lt. Lari Sevene said. The victims were identified as 18-year-old Uriel Rascon and 17-year-old Luis Burciaga. Rascon attended Sierra High School, and Burciaga went to The New Horizons School, an alternative high school. Both schools are in Harrison School District 2. Vasquez is being...

Police thwart plot to shoot up schoolFriday, January 9, 2009 BREVARD, N.C. — Police in western North Carolina say they have derailed a 15-year-old's plot to shoot up his school, thanks to a tip from a teen in New York. Transylvania County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Brian Kreigsman said Thursday the suspect told a 16-year-old girl on Jan. 2 about plans to "shoot up" Brevard High School. The pair were chatting on the popular MySpace social networking Web site. Kreigsman said the girl notified her local sheriff's office, which contacted authorities in North Carolina. Officials there found a computer and DVD...

CHICAGO – At least five people were shot Friday as spectators left a crowded basketball game at a high school on the city's South Side, scattering panicked students. Five males — three in serious condition and two in critical — were taken from Paul Laurence Dunbar Vocational Career Academy around 8 p.m., said Chicago Fire Department spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez.

Canton (AP) - Canton's school board is being asked to end the policy of allowing police dogs to sniff student lockers and school parking lots for drugs. The American Civil Liberties Union asks for the end to the practice in a letter sent to Superintendent Kevin Case. Drug searches have been a focus of controversy in Canton since a random sweep at middle and high schools in June put classrooms in lockdown and resulted in the arrest of one student. False alerts have led to more than 15 students being pulled out of class to watch police officers search their...

Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee told the D.C. Council yesterday that the District needs to completely rethink its approach to preventing school violence, with a better trained security force but also by teaching students to manage conflicts before they spiral out of control. Rhee spoke to the council a day after fights among rival groups at Anacostia High School left five students injured, including three with stab wounds. Flooding school corridors with more police or private security guards is not the answer, she said. Students feel less safe in schools filled with guards, she said, and dollars are better invested in...