President Donald Trump struck a solemn tone Thursday after the deadly school shooting in Florida, describing a “scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil” and promising to “tackle the difficult issue of mental health.” Trump spoke from the White House Diplomatic Room in a slow, deliberate style, he sought to… Read More
MLB star travels to his former Florida high school to offer support
Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo is departing spring training for his home in Parkland, Florida, to offer support in the wake of a deadly shooting at his former high school. Rizzo was traveling Thursday, the team said. He had been an early arrival in Arizona, where Chicago’s position players… Read More
Florida governor promises stricter gun laws
An orphaned 19-year-old with a troubled past and his own AR-15 rifle was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday morning following the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. in five years. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that Nikolas Cruz legally purchased the assault weapon used in… Read More
HERO! Coach dies protecting students from shooter
A football coach who also worked as the school’s security guard is among the dead in a school shooting that claimed 17 lives in Parkland, Florida. The Sun Sentinel reported that assistant coach Aaron Feis, acting as a school security guard, responded to the original call on a school walkie-talkie…. Read More
U.S. takes home Olympic gold medal in delayed event
The nervous energy accumulated for Mikaela Shiffrin while she waited, waited, waited for these Olympics — the ones that so many are expecting to be HER Olympics — to finally get started. First one race was postponed. Then another. And so it was not until a week into the Pyeongchang… Read More
Hollywood star a ‘hero’ in deadly Los Angeles car crash
Actor Luke Wilson played a real-life hero in the aftermath of a Los Angeles car crash that also involved golfer Bill Haas, a witness said Wednesday. Wilson, whose own car was clipped in the three-vehicle accident, pulled a 50-year-old woman from the smoking wreckage of her BMW. “He was the… Read More
Illegal immigrant kills 3-year-old boy in ambulance
An illegal immigrant was “grossly impaired” and driving without a license when the car he was driving struck an ambulance, killing the three-year-old American boy inside and injuring the boy’s mother. Jose Duran Romero, a 27-year-old illegal immigrant, was found to have more than twice the legal alcohol limit —… Read More
House panels launches investigation into former White House aide
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to know how former presidential aide Rob Porter was allowed to work at the White House under an interim security clearance — despite allegations of spousal abuse. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to the… Read More
BREAKING: Three shot at NSA headquarters, one in custody
This story is developing. Stay with The Horn News for all the latest information, which we will share as it becomes available. Police responded to a shooting Wednesday outside the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, where authorities surrounded a handcuffed man after a black SUV ran into a… Read More
1 climber dead, others rescued after Oregon’s tallest peak turned deadly
One climber fell to his death and several others had to be rescued after conditions turned treacherous on Oregon’s tallest peak. More than a half-dozen people had been climbing near Mount Hood’s peak when a climber fell about 1,000 feet, (304 meters) said Sgt. Brian Jensen, a Clackamas County sheriff’s… Read More