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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.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/2/18
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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 …
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By Melanie Haid
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3/29/18
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Parents and students filled the auditorium of the East Meadow School District’s administrative building on Feb. 27 for a Board of Education meeting that addressed school safety in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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3/8/18
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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.
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By Ben Strack, Jeffrey Bessen and Scott Brinton
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10/2/17
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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.
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1/13/17
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Just before noon on June 22, I finished a meeting in my office and turned on the TV to see the breaking news that would soon reach millions of people across the country: a group of my House Democratic colleagues, led by civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis, were staging a sit-in on the House floor . . .
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6/29/16
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It is hard to imagine that I would find myself writing about the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11 and the worst mass shooting in American history. Make no mistake about it. The mass shooting in Orlando . . .
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6/23/16
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The nation awoke last Sunday to horrifying news: 49 people were dead and at least another 50 injured after a gunman unleashed fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. The alleged perpetrator …
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By Ayyan Zubair
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6/15/16
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Omar Mateen — the 29-year-old man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., last Sunday in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history— may have lived for a time in …
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By Julie Mansmann
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6/15/16
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As the shocking details of last Sunday’s mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., emerged this week, local police and community organizations ramped …
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By Mary Malloy, Barbara Rubin-Perry, Julie Mansmann and Anthony Rifilato
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6/14/16
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