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    Luz Belliard, her granddaughter Victoria Alverez, 9, and a cousin of her daughter outside Public School 4 in New York, May 25, 2022. A day after a gunman massacred 19 children in a classroom in Uvalde, Texas, parents and caregivers all over the country grappled once again with a troubling question: Are our children safe at school? (Gregg Vigliotti/The New York Times) XNYT178 XNYT178

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    Nancy Crampton Brophy was cross-examined in her trial on Tues., May 17, 2022.  Crampton Brophy is accused of killing Dan Brophy, her husband, at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he was an instructor, on June 2, 2018. 48221603P

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