In Other News: 20 years on, Columbine survivors tell Parkland students: ‘We’re sorry we couldn’t stop it.’; California city votes to keep American flag on police cars

Published 1:13 pm Wednesday, April 17, 2019

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20 years on, Columbine survivors tell Parkland students: ‘We’re sorry we couldn’t stop it.’

Columbine and Parkland. Two high school massacres, two communities changed forever. Two fateful days, two decades apart. Tragic bookends in American history. In all, 30 lives lost: 13 in Colorado in 1999, 17 in Florida in 2018. Hundreds more survived the gunfire. Most escaped the bullets. Still, they carry invisible scars. Any loud sound can shatter their day: sirens sounding, fire alarms ringing, a car backfiring. Time has done little to heal the triggers. Three recent suicides — two Parkland survivors and the father of a 6-year-old girl killed in a mass school shooting at Sandy Hook, in Connecticut — only heighten the struggle. — CNN

California city votes to keep American flag on police cars

A southern California coastal city voted Tuesday to keep the American flag on its police cars despite some residents’ objections that it might offend immigrants. The Laguna Beach City Council voted to retain a new logo for its 11 police vehicles that uses stars and stripes running through the word “police” on the doors. Some in the small community thought the flashy red, white and blue decal was too aggressive, while others were surprised that anyone would object to the American flag. The council considered whether to keep the design or choose another. — Fox News

Attorney: ICE deported the husband of a soldier killed in combat even though he had been cleared to stay in the U.S.

The husband of a U.S. Army soldier killed in combat was detained and deported to Mexico last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement even though he had been granted permission to stay in the United States, according to his attorney. The man, who is now back in Phoenix, Arizona, where he lives, had been granted “parole in place,” clearing him to remain in the United States after his wife was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, the attorney said. Jose Gonzalez Carranza was arrested by ICE agents at his home in Phoenix on April 8 and was taken to Nogales, Mexico, on the border two days later, his lawyer, Ezequiel Hernandez, told CNN. Carranza was brought back to Phoenix and released Monday, hours after his deportation was first reported by The Arizona Republic. — CNN

Report: Texas advances bill that would penalize doctors for not providing care to babies born after abortion try

The Texas House of Representatives has preliminarily approved a measure that says any doctor who does not care for an infant born alive after an abortion will be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly serve prison time in cases of gross negligence, a report said. The “Born Alive” act passed 93 to 1 mostly along party lines, the Dallas Morning News reported, and will now advance to the state Senate. — Fox News