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One student died Tuesday, and another was critically injured after a shooting at St. Helena High School in Greensburg, Louisiana. One student died Tuesday, and another was critically injured after a shooting at St. Helena High School in Greensburg, Louisiana. The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. local time as school was being dismissed, a rep for the St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s Department told ABC News. A third student was injured. All three were students at the school, the rep said. MORE: El Chapo's wife set to be released from halfway house following prison sentence The student who was left in critical condition was airlifted to an area hospital. Their condition is currently unknown. Sheriff’s deputies and the crime lab are on the scene, as well as city police, according to officials. A suspect was taken into custody, ABC News has confirmed. Authorities told WBRZ in Baton Rouge that the suspect is a 14-year-old student. MORE: Elderly man, 74, pushed onto NYC subway trac...

Najmah Nash, the mother of the 6-year-old who died on her way to school while harnessed in her wheelchair, is speaking out against the school. A New Jersey mother is demanding answers from her local school board after her 6-year- old daughter who uses a wheelchair died on a bus ride to school . "What will be your course of action to ensure that this doesn't happen to any other family?" Najmah Nash, the mother, said at a Thursday board meeting, according to WABC in New York City. According to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office, the child, who used a wheelchair, was being transported on a school bus to an extended school year program on July at a local school in Franklin Township on Monday morning when she became unresponsive. MORE: Workplace inaccessibility is keeping disabled people from jobs During the ride, "a series of bumps in the road caused the 6-year-old to slump in her wheelchair seat making the 4-point harness which secured her to the chair to...

A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in northern Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling banning affirmative action in col... FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling Thursday banning affirmative action in college admissions. The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology , outside the nation's capital, routinely ranks as one of the best public school s in America; admission is highly com Pet itive. A coalition of parents, backed by a conservative legal foundation, filed a lawsuit in 2021 challenging the admissions policy at TJ, and the foundation is asking the Supreme Court to take up the case. The suit raises similar but not identical issues to those ...

The parents of children killed or traumatized by a mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville asked a court to prevent the killer's writings from being released. Arguing no one has suffered more than them, the parents of three children killed and those traumatized by a mass shooting in March at Covenant School in Nashville are asking a court to prevent the killer's writings from being released The request was filed Wednesday in Davidson County Chancery Court in response to three separate lawsuits asking that the journals of the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, be made public to shed light on a possible motive for the massacre. A woman pauses as she visits a memorial at the entrance to The Covenant School, March 29, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Wade Payne/AP, FILE In their court filing, the parents asked a judge set a hearing in which they would be allowed to give victim impact statements on how the deadly rampage has affected their lives. "No one was more traumatized o...

Three children have been hospital ized after falling sick when they found and ingested a container of what they thought to be candy. Three children have been hospital ized after falling sick when they found and ingested a container of what they thought to be candy. MORE: Man's attempt to kidnap child from school bus stop thwarted by group of kids: Police The incident occurred on Monday when three 7-year-old students became sick at College Gardens Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland -- approximately 15 miles north of Washington, D.C. -- and went to the nurse complaining of dizziness, according to the Montgomery County Police Department. “The investigation by detectives determined that a group of students found a container of blue items that they believed to be candy,” authorities said. MORE: High school mourns 2 seniors who died in tragic sledding accident The three children went to the school nurse who subsequently called emergency medical services. The children were taken to...

The shutdown of Jana Elementary School is among the issues facing North Saint Louis residents following years of nuclear contamination from Coldwater Creek. Last October, Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Missouri shut down after an independent study found radioactive lead dust in the school building. The incident brought light back on a decades-old issue in the community -- nuclear waste that has seeped into the environment throughout North St. Louis County. The waste is the product of the country's earliest nuclear programs. Starting in the 1940s with the Manhattan Project and continuing through the beginning of the Cold War, downtown St. Louis' Mallickrodt Chemical Works was responsible for processing uranium ore. "By July of 1942, they were producing one ton of purified uranium a day," Wendy Verhoff, a history professor at St. Louis Community College, told "Nightline." Jana Elementary School in Missouri closed down after it was discovered the groun...

Many questions remain after a 6-year-old student allegedly shot and injured a teacher during an altercation at a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school. Many questions remain unanswered after a 6-year- old student allegedly shot and injured a teacher at a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school . Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones said in a statement this weekend that police were "working diligently to get an answer to the question we are all asking -- how did this happen?" Police tape hangs from a sign post outside Richneck Elementary School, January 7, 2023, in Newport News, Virginia. Jay Paul/Getty Images MORE: Teacher injured in shooting at Virginia elementary school, 6-year-old suspect in custody: Police What we know A Richneck Elementary School teacher, described as a woman in her 30s, was shot with a handgun on Friday in a first-grade classroom, police said. She was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. The mayor told CNN on Sunday that she was in stable co...

After multiple mass shootings across the country this week, Uvalde families gathered Tuesday as Texas legislators introduced four new bills that would tighten gun laws. Austin, Texas -- After multiple mass shootings across the country this week, Uvalde families gathered Tuesday as Texas legislators introduced four new bills that would tighten gun laws in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting last May. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, introduced bills that, if enacted, would empower survivors of school shooting s to sue Texas state agencies, allow Texas law enforcement officials to be sued for their on-the-job conduct, create a permanent compensation fund for victims of school shooting s by imposing a tax on state gun sales, and repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a federal law that shields gun sellers and manufacturers from liability. Watchers of Texas Politics said gun reform has little chance of getting passed without support from Republic...