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A no-gun sticker is displayed a doorway at Oak Park and River Forest High School on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Oak Park, Ill. Despite laws banning guns from schools, educators in cities, suburbs and rural areas say keeping guns out of schools is difficult. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

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School gun case sparks debate over safety and second chances
By MARTHA IRVINE - AP National Writer
Thu,09/08/22-12:06AM , 130 Reads
Oak Park, Ill. (AP) — Keyon Robinson was just a month away from graduating from high school when he took a loaded gun, placed it in his backpack and headed to campus.
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A no-gun sticker is displayed a doorway at Oak Park and River Forest High School on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Oak Park, Ill. Despite laws banning guns from schools, educators in cities, suburbs and rural areas say keeping guns out of schools is difficult. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

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School gun case sparks debate over safety and second chances
By MARTHA IRVINE - AP National Writer
Thu,09/08/22-12:04AM , 426 Reads
Oak Park, Ill. (AP) — Keyon Robinson was just a month away from graduating from high school when he took a loaded gun, placed it in his backpack and headed to campus.
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Memorials for Irina and Kevin McCarthy, two of seven people killed in Monday's Fourth of July parade mass shooting, stands within a veterans memorial Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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In the midst of chaotic shooting, strangers save a young boy
By MARTHA IRVINE - AP National Writer
Wed,07/06/22-12:49PM , 132 Reads
CHICAGO (AP) — A woman — stunned and speechless in the chaos of a July 4 parade massacre — walked up to Greg Ring and handed him a 2-year-old boy, covered in blood.

Ring had fled the scene in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park with his wife and three children to an area behind a popular pancake house.
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Jonathan Annicks poses for a portrait with his wheelchair in front of his home in Chicago on Oct. 13, 2016, just a few feet from where a lone gunman shot him, leaving him paralyzed sitting in his brother's parked car. Six years later Annicks has received a bachelor's degree in communications and media and has become a part-time peer advisor for patients at the same rehabilitation hospital where he was a patient. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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Resilience Story: A bullet, a wheelchair, then perseverance
By MARTHA IRVINE - AP National Writer
Wed,06/29/22-11:09PM , 149 Reads
CHICAGO (AP) — There is a large photo of Jonathan Annicks on a wall at the rehab hospital where he was once a patient.

Sometimes when he rolls by in his wheelchair, he gazes at the black-and-white image, taken shortly after he was shot and paralyzed. He was 18 then, his cheeks a little rounder, his wavy hair shorter.
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