gun violence

Local and state officials met Friday to discuss gun violence in Hillsborough County, as well as possible solutions.

The Gunfire Response Investigations Team, or GRIT, will specifically investigate non-violent shootings, including drug-related violence.

If no clear winner emerges on election night, experts in global conflict warn conditions are ripe for potential violence in the U.S.

Anxieties multiplied quickly across Baker County, a mostly rural community of 28,000 in northern Florida, when news spread that a 15-year-old had planned…

Dozens of students from across Florida descended on their state Capitol demanding action on gun control Thursday, a day when a deadly school shooting in...

The National Rifle Association condemned a proposed constitutional amendment that aims to do away with assault weapons in Florida as a “classic example of…

The state wants kids to understand the trouble they can get into by making school threats. So, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has launched...

With a 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for casting votes, the Republican-controlled Legislature overwhelmingly rejected a Democratic proposal to hold a special...

Florida House Democrats say they’ve rounded up more than enough support to require votes from both Republican-dominated chambers of the Legislature to…

After failing in past years, a proposal to allow people to care concealed weapons on campus will go before legislators again during the 2020 session.Rep.…

More than 200 mayors, including two anguished by mass shootings in Texas and Ohio as well as Tampa’s Jane Castor and St. Petersburg’s Rick Kriseman, are…

It may not be a coincidence that several mass shootings took place in one week. Research shows perpetrators are often inspired by media coverage of other shootings.