Two other birds fly into columbine lore. Its scientific name, Aquilegia caerulea, harks to the eagle, and its common name stems from “columba,” Latin for dove. In 1899, schoolchildren chose it ...

At the time, the shooting at Columbine was the deadliest at a K-12 school in U.S. history. There hadn’t yet been massacres at schools in Newtown, Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, or Uvalde, Texas.

No other event, not even the gut-wrenching school shootings at Sandy Hook (10%), Parkland (5%), or Uvalde (2%), which were the next most cited, respectively, came close to this level of recall, des… ...

In this photograph taken through a fisheye lens, people visit the Columbine Memorial, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Littleton, Colo. Trauma still shadows the survivors of the horrific Columbine ...