'It's everyone's responsibility': School safety initiative heavy on detection, prevention

Education October 6, 2022

No one paid the weapons detector any mind on a recent, bustling mid-weekday at Morgantown High School. Students and teachers, already in the building, walked by the gray sentinel’s twin posts without looking over. The devices that are now also in place at University High and ...

Group wants metal detectors at MHS in response to threats

Community December 10, 2021

When Brandie Miles was a high school student back in Waldorf, Md., she passed through a metal detector every day on her way to class. She didn’t think anything of it, she said. It was the neighborhood. After all, she said, her hometown of 75,000 isn’t necessarily the safest place in ...