Colleges offer survival training for shootings (Temple Daily Telegram)

Metropolitan Community College faculty members leave a campus shooting class Monday in Kansas City, Mo. Orlin Wagner/Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer.

South Bend FOP to offer handgun training (22 WSBT South Bend)

SOUTH BEND — Owning a gun comes with the responsibilities of knowing how to handle, clean and properly shoot it. Many first-time gun owners are often too timid to get the training they need. But the South Bend FOP 36 is offering a handgun class for beginners next week.

Oprah Winfrey academy teachers visit for training (The Sacramento Bee)

Two teachers from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa spent their first day in the United States at a Sacramento-area high school. Del Oro High School juniors, from left, Briana Holt, Carlee Spangler and Alexis Rockefeller, all 16, use hand-held devices in chemistry class. Teachers Inge Thakor Daya, left, and Carolyn Bercovich watch students at Del Oro ...