Mexican shootout occurs near Texas border
Nia Gill, Staff Writer
December 20, 2019
On Saturday, Nov. 30, 14 members of a presumed cartel assault force were killed by Mexican security forces in Villa Union, a town about 35 miles southwest of the border city of Eagle Pass, Texas. The following day, seven more gang members were killed, causing the death toll to rise to 21. The Coahuila ...
Mass shooting at local bar in Kansas City
Paige Abbott, Staff Writer
October 29, 2019
On Friday, Oct. 6, a shooting in Kansas City killed four and injured five at a local bar. Police have determined two possible suspects from eyewitness accounts, citing the motive as a fight that occurred only hours earlier at the same bar. Despite the severity of the incident and its nationwide coverage, a...
Community responds to Parkland shooting
Shania Lao, Staff Wrtier
March 28, 2018
“My head jerks now whenever I hear the announcements or fire alarms go off at school,” said 17-year-old Lexi Mousaw, a junior at Coral Springs High School in Florida. “I keep thinking that one day they’re going to tell us to hide, that this is a code red and not a drill.” Lexi is one of t...
Time is ticking for new gun control laws, for us
Beatriz Caldas, Editor-in-Chief
February 23, 2018
Kalina Migliavasca saw her world change in just a matter of hours on Feb. 14, 2018. At 2:47 p.m., she received a text message from her youngest son, Noah. “Mom,” he wrote, “This is important.” She replied back asking what was happening, to which Noah only replied, “Look at the news.” Migliavasca...
News in Brief
Aarushi Ahuja, World & Nation Editor
November 10, 2017
United States On Sunday, Nov. 5, a gunman opened fire at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. At least 26 people were killed. According to CNN, the youngest was 17 months old and the oldest was 77 years old. The shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound...
Letter to the Editor: In response to the shooting of three American Muslims
Audrey Berlowitz, Guest Writer
February 20, 2015
Though we may not yet know with certainty the killer’s motives in taking the lives of three young Americans, practicing Muslims in their prime, we do know the crime was not motivated by “an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking.” This initial statement released by Chapel Hill police is an insult...
Al-Shabaab turns Kenyan mall into a slaughterhouse
Renee Dehart, Staff Writer
October 4, 2013
On Sept. 21, al-Shabaab insurgents stormed Nairobi’s Westgate mall, killing at least 72 and leaving 175 injured. Affiliated with al-Qaeda as of last year, al-Shabaab claims that the attack was in response to a prolonged Kenyan military presence in Somalia. Kenya first intervened militarily in 2011,...
