MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL

The MSD Safety Commission discussed a new training policy in hopes a tragedy like what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School could be averted.

Valentine's day next month will mark five years since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Essay on gun violence and Paul Auster's book Bloodbath Nation

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School band has been shining around the world in memory of Alex Schachter, a 14-year-old band member killed during the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School evacuated one building and placed the rest of the campus under a lockdown after an envelope containing a “suspicious substance” was received in the front office, officials say. The substance was deemed not to be a threat, and the actions were precautionary.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who handled the Parkland mass shooting case, is so biased in favor of the prosecution that she cannot be trusted to oversee cases handled by the Public Defender’s Office, according to dozens of motions filed in court last week.

A judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sentenced Nikolas Cruz to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Families of the victims of the Parkland school shooting and a survivor address the killer before he is sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.

A Broward County judge will formally sentence the Parkland school shooter after a jury recommended life in prison for the 2018 killing of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Watch Day 2 of the proceedings live.

Ines Maria Hixon said the U.S. Navy deployed her on a U.S. Aircraft carrier off the coast of Iran. The day her father-in-law Christopher Hixon died while trying to stop the Parkland school shooter, she said she was flying a military plane and didn’t get to check her e-mail.

A Broward County judge will formally sentence the Parkland school shooter after a jury recommended life in prison for the 2018 killing of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Watch the proceedings live.

Since the day of his arrest, confessed Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz has been housed and supervised inside the Broward Main Jail, which has cost the Broward Sheriff’s Office nearly $2.6 million, according to a court motion filed Friday.

The state of Florida spent more than $2 million trying to obtain a death sentence for the man who killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office. Broward taxpayers will foot the bill for the defense, too.

Prosecutor Carolyn McCann said during a brief hearing that they are not trying to invalidate Thursday's jury vote.

After the jurors in the Parkland school shooter’s case were dismissed Thursday, the foreman Benjamin Thomas said only three of the 17 jurors disagreed with the death penalty.

Twitter reacts to the life in prison recommendation by a Fort Lauderdale jury in the Parkland shooting trial of Nikolas Cruz.

The families of 17 people killed at Marjory Stonemen Douglas High School in 2018 expressed shock after the confessed Parkland gunman was spared the death penalty on Thursday.

Watch from inside the courtroom as the jury reads their verdict: Will Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to death or life in prison? Jurors are deciding whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

These are the 17 counts that Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer read to the jury on Wednesday before deliberations began.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 60 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Coral Springs Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a missing, endangered 84-year-old man.

Watch from inside the courtroom as the prosecution and defense give their closing statements in the sentencing trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. Jurors are deciding whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 17 of first-degree murder.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 15 of first-degree murder.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count six of first-degree murder.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 58 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Eleven people working for one of the nation's leading turkey producers have been charged with animal cruelty in Pennsylvania after state police said they were caught on video kicking, stomping and beating turkeys at several farms.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 57 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 56 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 55 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Democrats in Florida are trying to make inroads with Latino voters by focusing on gun safety.

The final phase of the sentencing trial for confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas gunman Nikolas Cruz begins Tuesday. Here's what you can expect as the prosecution conducts its rebuttal.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer refused to step down from the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz, the confessed gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

To ease overcrowding, school district officials say they want to trim Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s enrollment by as many as 500 students. And eventually, other overcrowded schools also could face adjustments.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 54 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 52 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

The Parkland school shooter’s defense warned the judge and the prosecution on Thursday that they have grounds to put a stop to the trial’s death penalty phase.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 51 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Broward Sheriff’s Gregory Tony said his investigators were able to get a potential school shooter off the street by nabbing him for defacing the shrine for Parkland shooting victims at the site of the high school.

The Parkland gunman’s middle school language arts teacher was so troubled by his schoolwork that she kept a meticulous record of her interactions with Nikolas Cruz, knowing from the time she met him that he was going to be a problem.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 49 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 48 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Four school board members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in one of Florida’s most Democratic counties were sworn into office on Tuesday. The state's Department of Education on Monday voiced “significant concerns" about the school system's actions before, during and after the shootings of 17 people by Nikolas Cruz, a troubled former student who attacked the high school's campus on Valentine's Day in 2018. In a letter sent to Superintendent Vickie Cartwright, the state cited the grand jury's finding of mismanagement of the $800 million voter-approved bond to renovate schools, the underreporting of criminal activity to the state, the district's “almost fanatical desire to control student data” and use it to manipulate public perception, and the practice of allowing students with serious felonies back on school campuses.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 47 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' newly appointed school board members prepared to take their seats.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 46 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 45 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

Here’s what you need to know from Day 44 of the Parkland school shooter’s sentencing trial.

The defense for the gunman who killed 17 students and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School argued he's a "damaged human being."

Watch the opening statement from the defense in the sentencing trial of the Parkland school shooter, which resumes on Monday. Aug. 22, 2022. The prosecution rested its case two weeks ago after trying to convince jurors why they should sentence the shooter to death.

As the Parkland jury walked through the 1200 building on Aug. 4, students, teachers and graduates remember the classes they had in the building, the items they abandoned as they fled, and having to walk by the mass shooting crime scene so many times over the past few years.

The Parkland building where a teenage gunman shot and killed 17 people will continue to stand at least until next year, even though the jury deciding the gunman’s fate has already finished its tour of the crime scene.

Twelve jurors and 10 alternates who will decide whether Cruz gets the death penalty or life in prison made a rare visit to the massacre scene.

Jurors in the Parkland trial viewed the scene of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday. In one corner of one room, books lay on the floor, caked in dried blood. One was titled “Tell Them We Remember.”

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been sealed and preserved since the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staffers dead.

Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are preparing to visit the still-bloodstained building where he murdered 17 people four years ago

Jurors aren't allowed to converse with each other - when they retrace the path Cruz followed on Feb. 14, 2018.

Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz have toured the still-bloodstained building where he murdered 17 people four years ago.

Parkland school shooting testimony: Watch videos of survivors injured

'I wish every single day this is a nightmare I can wake up from,' a tearful Max Schachter told a jury considering the fate of confessed Marjory Stoneman Douglas gunman Nikolas Cruz. Schachter's son Alex was killed at the Parkland school.

Watch Day 11 of the sentencing trial of the Parkland school shooter, which resumes testimony on Wednesday, Aug. 3. The prosecution, which is getting close to resting its case, is presenting its case for why the jury should sentence the shooter to death.

The 17 teenagers and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school who were murdered by a school shooter each have a story. On Tuesday, emotional testimony from their families resumed in front of the jury who will decide the fate of confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz.

Watch Day 10 of the sentencing trial of the Parkland school shooter, which resumes testimony on Tuesday, Aug. 2. The prosecution, which is getting close to resting its case, is presenting its case for why the jury should sentence the shooter to death.

The jury viewed photos of three of the victims of the Feb. 14, 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland during Nikolas Cruz’s death penalty trial on Monday in Fort Lauderdale.

Watch Day 9 of the sentencing trial of the Parkland school shooter, which resumes testimony on Monday, Aug. 1. The prosecution is presenting its case for why the jury should sentence the shooter to death.

The Broward County prosecution team that is seeking the death penalty for the Parkland school shooter called Broward Sheriff’s Office Detective Nicholas Masters on July 27 to testify in court about the digital evidence his team uncovered.

Watch Day 8 of the sentencing trial of the Parkland school shooter, which resumes testimony on Wednesday, July 27. The prosecution is presenting its case for why the jury should sentence the shooter to death.

The state spent Thursday’s shorter hearing speaking to more witnesses and discussing how Nikolas Cruz was trying to blend in with the public after fatally shooting 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Kyle Laman said he has undergone five to six surgeries just so he could have some mobility. He was a freshman when Nikolas Cruz shot him with his AR-15.

As of Wednesday afternoon, 29 of the prosecution’s witnesses had testified during Nikolas Cruz’s death penalty trial for the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The 12 jurors chosen to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.

Sign sealed and delivered on Saturday was the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

It's the final phase of interviewing prospective jurors for the Parkland school shooting case and the attorneys turned to probing them on a number of issues.

Family members of the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are reacting to U.S. lawmakers' proposed gun safety bill.

A South Florida wellness center formed in the wake of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland is collecting letters from the community to present to families affected by last month’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The Uvalde, Texas school massacre has forced family members of the victims of the Parkland shooting to relive the horror of what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago.

The massacre at a Texas elementary school that left at least 19 students and 2 adults dead Tuesday is hitting close to home with families and survivors of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer said Monday in court that she didn’t know what Juneteenth was.

Deputies protecting Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz had to pull him aside and surround him after members of a jury pool became potentially threatening.

Jury selection is scheduled to resume the week of April 25, the days between now and then reserved for attorneys on both sides to wrap up depositions.

Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder of 17 people on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. A jury will have to decide if he deserves the death penalty or life in prison.

Over six hours, prospective jurors filed in and out of a Broward County courtroom in Day 1 of the Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's life or death case.

Nikolas Cruz pled guilty in October of last year to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in which 17 people were killed and 17 others were injured.

Nicholas Dworet was a star swimmer and had signed a scholarship letter of intent to swim for the University of Indianapolis when a shooter killed him and 16 others on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He was 17 when he died and would have celebrated his 22nd birthday last week.

A Parkland senior will be honored at Broward Wak the Talk event in Hollywood. The Miami walk is set for April 2.

40 civil cases settled filed against the government surrounding the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Federal officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed and wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.

The tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School created a deep pain across a community that prompted a district-wide discussion on how to better secure school campuses.

Hunter Pollack has his sister Meadow in his heart every moment.

Broward County is marking four years since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy with a day of service and a moment of silence Monday.

Florida government buildings, parks and other facilities will fly their flags at half-staff on Monday in honor of the 14 students and three staff members killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre.

Penny Pagano suffered from panic attacks after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty in October to the 17 murders and 17 attempted murders during the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Feb. 14 will mark four years since the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a day 17-year-old son Nick Dworet was among 17 lives taken.

A defense motion has passed to allow former Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Scot Peterson to visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff members were killed in February 2018 under his watch, his attorney confirmed to Local 10 News on Friday.

A South Florida school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed in the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The defense attorneys who are representing the man who confessed to the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wanted to prevent the 12-member jury from listening to the victims’ families.

Manuel Oliver traveled from South Florida to Washington, D.C., about eight days ago and he has been standing in front of the White House to demand action on gun violence. Dozens of other students and parents joined the protest on Thursday.

Deputies identified a 12-year-old girl who they say was responsible for a threat on Instagram about a shooting at Deerfield Beach Middle School.