Jessica Contrera

It抖阴ap been 20 years since the Columbine shooting. His job is to stop the next attack.

April 12, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

Jefferson County School District has built what is likely the most sophisticated school security system in the country: installing remote-controlled locks, cameras that track suspicious people; 24-hour dispatch center and...

First, this Pennsylvania town lost its Macy’s. Then Sears. Now, all eyes were on J.C. Penney.

January 1, 2018 at 6:15 p.m.

What might have been just a sign of the times in a bigger city was a life-changing and economy-altering loss for Hermitage, the kind of place too far from anywhere...

Plastic straws began replacing paper in ...

New movement asks you to give up plastic drinking straws

October 23, 2017 at 4:44 p.m.

Maybe it's that you don't want to put your mouth where other mouths have been. Or maybe you've been sucking for so long, sucking has become your default setting. You...

Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the shots started.

October 3, 2017 at 10:36 p.m.

Up-and-coming country star Luke Combs had just started his set on the smaller of the two festival stages when Kody Robertson, an auto-parts salesman from Columbus, Ohio, squeezed in at...

Kim Ash teaches the Newseum's "Fighting ...

“These are all fake news,” said the honor student; he was wrong

September 5, 2017 at 5:54 p.m.

The young people sitting before Ash had spent some of their most formative years hearing that the news is fake. For the teachers responsible for educating them, this is a...

Volunteers Brock Warnick, right, and Colten ...

Texas continues Harvey recovery efforts as Hurricane Irma looms in the Atlantic

September 4, 2017 at 9:56 p.m.

It is still too early to determine exactly where and when Irma will hit, but model forecasts indicate it is increasingly likely to affect the United States.

Lessons from son’s upbringing weren’t on display in Charlottesville, dad says

August 16, 2017 at 7:20 a.m.

On Sunday, that protester showed up at his door. He had just flown back from Charlottesville, Virginia. Tefft let him inside. This "pro-white" protester was still his son, after all.

The harsh truths of job-hunting amid a robust economy

August 7, 2017 at 9:04 p.m.

By the numbers, it was a good time to be a job seeker in America. And now, a few hundred -- black, white and Hispanic, young, old and middle-aged -...

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