Updated February 13, 2024 at 8:27 PM ET Melody O'Connor is grateful her teenage daughter Angeleena O'Connor was arrested in the winter of 2022. "Isn't that a horrible thing to say?" Melody said. It ...

After some very disturbing shootings involving individuals who reportedly had been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, there has been increased attention to the possible link between autism ...

My heart goes out to the families of the children and educators who were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, those who witnessed this massacre and to the community of Newtown as well. Following ...

This situation could easily have gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and who school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without ...

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Special needs and safety advocate Mandi Furniss and Social Media Victims Law Center founding attorney Matthew P. Bergman discuss the dangers of AI chatbots after one allegedly influenced Furniss' son ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As with so many senseless acts of violence— including the shootings in Aurora, CO, last summer and Tucson, AZ, the year before ...