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It was a judgment call that went horribly wrong. Experts weigh in on the decision by Oxford High School to return a troubled student to class before a shooting rampage. Like many districts, Oxford has a policy to discourage student suspensions.
‘We’re not going to just do nothing,’ Nessel says, after the district rebuffs her offer to investigate its handling of events in the hours before a mass shooting that killed four students.
Prosecutors say parents of the alleged school shooter didn’t secure the murder weapon. That isn’t a crime in Michigan, and it took nearly a decade to make it one in Oregon.
Some child-welfare and foster care advocates say the state too often ensnares innocent adults in its Central Registry listings of people flagged for child abuse or neglect. But others warn against tilting too far against vulnerable children.
Six months after most vaccinations, a quarter of all COVID deaths and hospitalizations are breakthrough cases. Most severe cases, though, are among the unvaccinated.
James and Jennifer Crumbley were found by Detroit police in a building on the city's east side. They had been missing since Friday, after they were charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Oxford school officials are coming under scrutiny for what they did, and didn’t do, following disturbing interactions with the 15-year-old suspect before the shooting spree.
