In one of his first acts as governor, Florida's Ron DeSantis on Friday ordered the suspension of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.

In 2018, state legislatures passed the most gun-control laws in any year since the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting, a three-fold increase over 2017.

Florida's Broward County Sheriff's Office plans to change its policy on how to respond to shooters after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

From migrant caravans to West Coast wildfires and influential U.S. leaders who died, UPI photographers captured some historic and memorable moments in 2018.

The Trump administration said a federal commission on school safety is making several recommendations and an end to policies aimed at preventing discrimination.

A federal judge dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by student survivors of a shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school.

Teachers should be armed and schools should have better security to prevent attacks like the one in Parkland, Fla., this year, a special panel said in a report.

Nikolas Cruz, the confessed shooter at a high school in Parkland, Fla., faces additional charges on allegations he punched and tackled a jail deputy last month.

Smithsonian magazine's 2018 American Ingenuity Awards brought together the best of life science, performing arts, technology, social progress and the arts.

Teachers and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School staged protests after four staff members were reassigned in relation to a mass shooting.

Broward County Public Schools reassigned four staffers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after security failures during a fatal shooting.

Parkland High School shooter Nikolas Cruz attacked a police officer this week at his South Florida jail, court records showed Wednesday.

The teen survivors of the mass shooting at a Florida high school have launched a movement for gun control and school safety. Here's what's happened so far.

Despite Republican wins in Florida, gun rights advocates vow to keep fighting against well-funded gun control organizations that spend big money in the state.

Republican Ron DeSantis defeated progressive Democrat Andrew Gillum in Florida as Democrats hoped to win key gubernatorial races throughout the country.