South Carolina’s top education official wants online digital maps as part of $38M school safety ask

GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top education official plans to ask lawmakers for $5 million…

Incoming Philadelphia mayor taps the city’s chief of school safety as next police commissioner

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker, who won her post by promising gun-violence-weary residents to…

Four weapons found by scanners in Henrico schools in first couple months after installation

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Four weapons have been found between two high schools in the…

Richmond leaders to consider metal detectors in middle schools

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond schools are considering a proposal to put metal detectors in city…

Mass shooting renews gun control, school safety debate in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A tragic mass shooting at a Texas elementary school is renewing debates…

Bus driver to boy: ‘You can walk home.’ OPS student dropped off at wrong address

Seven-year-old Quincy Walker is seen on the doorbell video crying and looking confused.He was hot, tired…