gun violence

What is journalists' role when covering America's mass shooting crisis? It's a crucial question to answer, says an expert who studies the impact that news stories have on the public.

"My own historically Republican mother told me she looked up her senators and called them for the first time in her life," Liz Hanks, who leads the Texas chapter of Moms Demand Action, told NPR.

As protesters demand changes to gun laws, a bipartisan group of senators announces consensus on gun reform policies.

Senate bargainers have announced a bipartisan framework responding to last month's mass shootings in New York and Texas. It's a measured breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.

On the night of Sept 7, a sleeping 3-year-old boy was shot and killed after 150 rounds of bullets were shot into his home, police said. Two days earlier, a 16-year-old also lost his life to gun violence; a 14-year-old was arrested for that homicide. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police suspect these cases are connected and have ties to area high schools. Local activists and violence experts join us to discuss how teens are getting guns, and what can be done to prevent the deadly violence.

A 3-year-old boy and a teenager were killed in a series of shootings last week that Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say might be connected. Police have made two arrests in the case so far, but WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, wonders if the shooting will ever stop.

The Salisbury Cease Fire initiative, once a summer program, will now take place all year. The program encourages residents to participate in conflict resolution to slow down gun violence.

After a year in which there were 108 homicides in Charlotte -- the most since 1993 -- Charlotte's City Council is looking at treating violent crime as a…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A school shooter who was 14 when he killed a first grader on a school playground in South Carolina was sentenced Thursday to life in…

A 25-year-old man was killed and another man was injured in a shooting in north Charlotte on Friday evening.Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say Tydarrien…