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☆ Footage shows police killing Nashville school shooter as investigators seek motive
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Sandra Stojanovic | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department began receiving calls about a shooter at 10:13 a.m., police spokesperson Don Aaron told reporters. Investigators were examining a "manifesto" written by the 28-year-old former student at the Covenant School, hoping to learn what motivated the latest U.S. mass shooting. Monday's violence marked the 90th school shooting – defined as any incident in which a gun is discharged on school property – in the United States this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman. He said the Covenant School was singled out for attack but that the individual victims were targeted at random. Also shot dead were Mike Hill, 61, a school custodian; Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher; and Katherine Koonce, 60, listed on the Covenant website as "head of school."
☆ Suspect Killed After Shooting at Nashville Christian School
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Covenant School is a private, Christian school that enrolls about 200 students from prekindergarten to sixth grade . Police killed a suspect who opened fire at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday morning, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. The Nashville Fire Department said first responders were treating multiple patients at the Covenant School at Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Green Hills neighborhood.
☆ Three children, 2 adults killed in Nashville school shooting, suspect dead
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
March 27 (Reuters) - At least three children and two adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday morning. Police "engaged" the suspected attacker, leaving the suspect dead, local officials said. The shooting happened at The Covenant School, where the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that the suspect was dead but did not specify what led to the death. Three children were pronounced dead after arriving at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds, John Howser, a hospital spokesperson, said in a statement. The Covenant School, founded in 2001, is a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville with about 200 students, according to the school's website.
☆ A Christian school that 'celebrates childhood' becomes killing scene in Nashville
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Sharon Bernstein | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/4] A child weeps while on the bus leaving The Covenant School, following a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 27, 2023. Nicole Hester/USA Today Network via REUTERSMarch 27 (Reuters) - The 200 young children enrolled at The Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, start each day with chapel, and study the Bible twice a week. "The beauty of a PreSchool-6th school is in its simplicity and innocence," the introductory paragraph of the school's website reads. The carnage made a stark and horrible contrast to the images of everyday life on the school's website and Facebook page. The private elementary school is affiliated with Covenant Presbyterian Church, part of an evangelical movement that branched off from the more liberal Presbyterian Church in 1981.
☆ Three children, 3 adults shot dead by ex-student at Tennessee Christian school
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Kevin Wurm | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 27 (Reuters) - A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee's capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. Drake said the school was singled out for attack but the individual victims were targeted at random. [1/6] Students from The Covenant School hold hands after getting off a bus to meet their parents at the reunification site following a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., March 27, 2023. Reacting in Washington to the latest school shooting, U.S. President Joe Biden urged the U.S. Congress again to pass tougher gun reform legislation. Nashville Mayor John Cooper expressed sympathy for the victims and wrote on social media that his city "joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting."
☆ Missouri's abortion ban declares 'Almighty God is the author of life.' Faith leaders beg to differ in new suit.
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Stephanie Russell-Kraft | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Missouri's abortion ban completely outlaws abortion with limited exceptions. The clergy, who come from denominations of Christianity, Unitarian Universalism, and Judaism, said the abortion ban violates their religious freedom and subjects them to "the religious dictates of others." "It came from religious leaders and communities, who have been explaining for decades that they see reproductive freedom as essential to religious freedom." But Missouri lawmakers openly discussed their religious beliefs on abortion while writing the abortion ban in 2019 according to the lawsuit, saying things like "Life begins at conception. There have also been more than a dozen cases challenging abortion restrictions on religious freedom grounds since the Supreme Court's decision, according to Platt.
☆ For this company, decorating Park Avenue for Christmas is a family tradition
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Molly Kaiser | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
The business has maintained the avenue's grassy medians – known as the Park Avenue Malls – for 50 years. Christmas tress installed by City-Scape Landscaping on Park Avenue in New York. "I don't think Park Avenue would have quite the same glamour if the median walls weren't in place," said Vincent Sofield's son, Dylan. "It's people's front yard, front gardens along Park Avenue," said the group's president, Barbara McLaughlin. Christmas tress installed by City-Scape Landscaping on Park Avenue in New York.
☆ Larry Page, Sergey Brin Post-Google Lives: Investments, Yachts, Islands
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +33 min
Even before their retirement from Google, Page and Brin relied heavily on their respective family offices to bring order to their worlds. The Bay Area headquarters of Koop, Larry Page's family office, is nondescript and gives little indication of the billionaire's empire. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show less Bayshore Global Management, Sergey Brin's family office, is based in Palo Alto and has a bit more of a public face. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show lessThe difference in styles holds true for Brin's family office, Bayshore Global Management. The CEO of Page's family office is Wayne Osborne, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church who attended Princeton Theological Seminary.
☆ The 12 most prestigious private preschools in New York City — and how to get in
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The private preschool landscape in New York City is arguably the most competitive in the nation. Education consultants Wendy Levey and Cindy Chanin selected the 12 most prestigious in the city. New York City has arguably one of the most competitive landscapes for private preschools in the nation. Why parents fight for a spot knowing the odds often comes down to reputation — maybe celebrities or well-known business leaders bring their kids there, or, possibly more importantly, the preschool's notorious for landing its graduates spots at the most prestigious private schools in the city. Levey and Chanin selected 12 preschools in Manhattan and Brooklyn that, in their experience, are the most prestigious programs around.
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