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“You never think it’s going to happen to you the first time, you certainly never think it’s going to happen to you twice,” said Stephanie Horowitz, a 22-year-old graduate student at Florida State University.

David Hogg emerged on the political scene as an outspoken survivor of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland. No the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he said his party must squelch a pervasive “culture of seniority politics."

Under an agreement signed by Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips, survivor Anthony Borges, the families of slain students Meadow Pollack, Luke Hoyer and Alaina Petty and fellow student survivor Maddy Wilford now control any attempt by shooter Nikolas Cruz to profit off his name or likeness or grant interviews. Each of the five parties has veto power.

Authorities told Miami's WPLG-TV Local 10 that Saturday was the last day people would be able to tour the building, which has been preserved as evidence.

The Joy app designed by Kai Koerber, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, uses artificial intelligence to suggest bite-sized mindfulness activities for people based on how they are feeling.

A former Florida sheriff's deputy is about to be tried on charges he failed to confront the gunman who murdered 17 at a Parkland high school five years ago. Scot Peterson could get a nearly 100-year sentence if convicted of felony child neglect.

The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of the Parkland mass murderer is resigning. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sent a resignation letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis saying she will step down June 30.

The new law took effect immediately and represents a major change in Florida’s death-penalty system. Lawmakers moved forward with the issue after the Parkland shooter was sentenced to life in prison last year.

House panel supports a bill would reverse part of a 2018 law that set the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The Florida Senate voted 6-2 to approve a state bill that would allow judges to sentence defendants to death based on the recommendations of only eight of the 12 jurors — --instead of requiring a unanimous vote.

Five years since the 2018 Parkland school shooting, many have decided to honor the lives that were lost due to this act of violence through non-profit organizations and passing legislation in the state and across the country.

The gunman who carried out the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been ordered to serve 34 consecutive life sentences. Family members of victims say they hope it's a fate worse than the death penalty.