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Hundreds of people joined elected officials in Kennedy Plaza on Monday to mourn the loss of 11 people who were murdered in the country’s deadliest anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27.
The city’s show of solidarity
By Bridget Downes bdownes@liherald.com “This is an attack — one we never imagined would happen on American soil against the Jewish people,” Rabbi Eli Goodman, of Chabad of the Beaches, … more
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Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.
Inside the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Part seven in an ongoing series. Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its familiar playgrounds, ball fields and band shell, and lit candles for the dead. Afterward, they sat on towels on the ground and talked for hours, struggling to put into words, to understand, the massacre perpetrated by a one-time student of their school, whom the Herald is not identifying. more
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Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, left, was joined by Gwen Gossler — the late Scott Beigel’s fiancée — Chief Executive Officer of the LGBT Network David Kilmnick and County Executive Laura Curran at Monday’s press conference.
Pride on the Beach returns to Long Beach
Pride on the Beach is returning to Long Beach next month, and survivors of the Parkland, Fla. shooting will lead the parade as grand marshals. The three-day festival, organized by the LGBT … more
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Roughly 70 Hofstra University students took part in a march across campus on March 14 to call for stricter gun control.
Hofstra students march to end mass shootings
Editor's note: Melanie Haid is a freshman journalism major at Hofstra University. This piece originally appeared in the Hofstra Chronicle, the student-run newspaper. Exactly a month after the mass … more
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About 400 students, rallied by junior Madison Gusler, sat in the football field bleachers for 17 minutes in silence on Wednesday to honor the 17 victims of the Parkland, Fla., shooting.
Students walk in national protest
Long Beach High School students were among the thousands of teenagers who walked out of their schools on March 14 as part of a national movement to honor the victims of the school shooting at Marjory … more
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There are security guard vestibules at the entrances of school buildings throughout the district as well as the entrance of the high school campus.
L.B. schools increase security
In the wake of last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., local school districts — including Long Beach — are taking a closer look at their emergency preparedness plans. Long Beach … more
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Country music star Jason Aldean’s performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Long Beach resident Denise Carroll was in the crowd. Above, the concert venue last Friday.
Long Beach resident survives Las Vegas mass shooting
“It felt like there were fireworks,” Long Beach resident Denise Carroll told the Herald on Monday. The death toll in Las Vegas was climbing that day, after a lone gunman opened fire with an … more
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Country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. In the crowd was 24-year-old Rockville Centre native Peter Meehan. Above, the concert venue last Friday.
Rockville Centre native ‘grateful’ to survive America’s deadliest shooting
The death toll was climbing steadily on Monday, less than 24 hours after a lone gunman opened fire with an assault weapon from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. In the crowd at the Aldean concert was Peter Meehan, 24, of Rockville Centre, who flew to Las Vegas last Thursday to attend the three-day music festival with his girlfriend. more
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Antonio Webb, 24, is on trial at Nassau County Court in Mineola, on second-degree murder and gun possession charges.
Murder trial opens for Long Beach man
A jury heard testimony last week in the trial of a Long Beach man who is charged with the murder of 28-year-old Tyrenzo Brown outside the Channel Park housing complex in 2014. Antonio Webb, 24, … more
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This isn’t a diatribe about guns
Dec. 14, 2013. It was nail-biting cold. The sort of cold that foreshadowed snowflakes in the coming days but still coddled them in gray-blanketed skies. more
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