One of the worst school shootings in US history has left 20 children and eight adults dead. The children were all aged between five and 10.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are just the latest in the US’s long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

The mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold prayed for him to commit suicide when she was told he was a suspect during the shooting spree at a Colorado school that killed 13 people, the woman said in a new book.

Seventy-one people were shot in the Colorado cinema during midnight screenings of the new Batman movie, police said.

Police have released a written statement from the family of the man arrested after today's shooting at a crowded Colorado cinema.

US police say two high school students had a pair of loaded handguns, a drawing depicting a killing and the intention of randomly shooting people on campus.

A hate-filled teenager collected enough supplies to kill dozens in a suicide bomb attack on his school, police said today.

A high school in Colorado was locked down today after a cafeteria worker saw two men in camouflage and ski masks enter the building more than an hour before classes, a district spokesman said.

The families of Columbine school shooting victims pledged to appeal against a judge’s decision to seal information about the two killers that they say might have helped prevent the Virginia Tech massacre.

THE killings at Virginia Tech university will stir fresh US debate over gun control and what drives people to go on shooting rampages through schools and colleges.

IT is a college where guns are treasured as much as human life, according to a Co Monaghan professor working for the tragic Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Columbine High School, site of the US’ deadliest school massacre eight years ago, was evacuated today after officials received at least one call about a bomb threat, authorities said.

An 18-year-old man suspected of plotting a murder spree at a high school in southern California was sentenced to five years in state prison.

A gunman took six girls hostage at the high school in the Colorado mountain town of Bailey, using them as human shields for hours before he shot and fatally wounded a girl and then killed himself as a SWAT team moved in, authorities said.

A teenager accused of killing his father and then shooting two students at his former high school in Hillsborough, North Carolina, said today he had been obsessed for years with the mass killing at Columbine High School.

A teenager has been arrested in connection with last week’s shootings on a Minnesota Indian reservation, according to a police source.

THE suspect in the worst US school massacre since Columbine smiled and waved as he gunned down five students, a teacher and a guard, asking one of his victims whether he believed in God, witnesses said.

A “grinning and waving” high school pupil went on a shooting rampage on an Indian reservation, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his Minnesota school.

The September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States have brought a new language into the classroom.

The families of five US high school students killed in a 1999 massacre have asked that a federal grand jury investigate their claims of a cover-up by authorities.

An 18-year-old student accused of shooting five people at his high school made a reference to the 1999 massacre at Columbine High in Colorado during class earlier this year and simulated guns with his hands, a classmate said.