A student’s backpack triggered a weapons detection system at Ballard High School, revealing a gun.

East Baton Rouge Parish deputies arrested a mother Thursday after a gun was found in her child’s backpack at a local school.

According to the sheriff's office, deputies responded to Baton Rouge FLAIM after the gun was reported on Thursday, March 6.

One month after a 9-year-old boy brought a gun to school that accidentally discharged inside his backpack, a relative faces charges. The Billingsley Elementary School student was in class around 10:30 ...

An 11-year-old Montessori school student who reported a gun they found inside their backpack is facing charges.

School officials confirmed a gun was removed from Doyle Elementary School’s campus early Tuesday morning, Feb. 24.

A gun inside a third-grader’s backpack went off in a classroom in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on Monday morning, authorities say. No students or staff were hurt after the gunfire at Lee Hill ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — A third-grade classroom was evacuated Monday at a Fredericksburg elementary school after a gun went off unexpectedly from inside a student's backpack. Officers from the ...

MADISON, Wis. — A gun was found in the backpack of an 18-year-old La Follette High School student Tuesday afternoon, according to an incident report from Madison Police Department. Officers were ...

A gun was found in a student’s backpack at Ballard High School on Thursday afternoon.

A gun was found inside a student's backpack at Ballard High School on Thursday.