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38 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
82/99 — headlines create a clearly different first impression.
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CBS News · Center-left · News report
KGW8 (Tegna, Portland OR) · Center · News report
Daily Mail · Center-right · News report
SEE THE HEADLINES
A 36-year-old man saw the shooter enter Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, and pursued him into the school before police arrived.
Three children and a teacher were killed, and two others critically wounded, in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. The suspect was shot and killed by a bystander.
The aunt of the youngest child killed in a shooting at an Oregon elementary school said he was a fast runner and a fearless climber who loved reading.
After Thursday’s deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, community members are offering resources for victims, families and others impacted by the tragedy.
He was 16 years old and used a pump-action shotgun registered to his mother.
An initial investigation shows the shooter forced his way into the school by shooting at locked doors, according to police.
Officials are lauding the actions of a local who they say chased down and shot a teenage gunman who killed three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school.
Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and opened fire, authorities said.
Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and opened fire, authorities said.
Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and opened fire, authorities said.
Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and opened fire, authorities said.
Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and opened fire, authorities said.
Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and opened fire, authorities said.
The 16-year-old suspect was subdued by a teacher before being shot by a man who followed him into the school.
Authorities said Griffin J. John II had been a special needs student at Silver Rail Elementary and had attacked a classroom with special needs students
Police in Bend, Oregon, are still investigating the motive behind the deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School. Four people were killed, including three young children and a teacher...
Becky Drury is recovering from gunshot wounds to both arms.
Griffin John II, 16, killed three children aged five, eight, and 11, and their 25-year-old teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon.
Father of five-year-old Rhoam Summer says family ‘broken and lost’, while seven-year-old and 54-year-old in hospital Authorities are investigating a shooting at an elementary school in Bend...
The horrific day in Bend, Oregon yesterday left a teacher and three students dead, as well as two more injured. Thanks to a heroic father who heard the scumbag killer shooting his...
As the investigation continues into the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, we're learning new details about the suspect, victims and the man who stopped the shooter.
Three children and one teacher are dead after a shooter forced his way into a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and opened fire, authorities said.
BEND, Oregon, Oct 16 - A teacher in the Oregon classroom where a shooter killed three children and an adult threw her cellphone at the shooter, tackled him and fought him in an act that sav...
Authorities in Oregon will hold a press briefing Friday afternoon in Bend one day after a gunman opened fire, killing four people and wounding two others, according to police.
Police confirmed the identity of the teenager who killed three students and a teacher at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.
The teacher killed in a shooting at a Bend, Oregon, elementary school shooting was identified by police on Friday as 25-year-old Meghan, Lambert. The hero who took down the shooter was Kayl...
BEND, Ore. — A teacher threw her phone at the teenage gunman who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school, then tackled and fought with him — likely saving lives before he was shot...
President Trump commented on the Thursday Oregon elementary school shooting while speaking to reporters on Friday and lauded the "great hero" bystander who ran into the school to stop the s...
The Silver Rail Elementary School shooting unfolded in a special needs classroom and the suspected shooter was previously a special needs student, according to Bend-La Pine Schools Superint...
The man who stopped the Oregon elementary school shooter is the father of 2 daughters at the school, his mother says.
Police say the 16-year-old was tackled by a teacher before a father of two students followed him into the school and shot him
Three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and one teacher were killed in the shooting
A teacher threw her phone at the teenage gunman who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school, then tackled and fought with him - likely saving lives before he was shot by a father...
An armed bystander stopped a shooting at a school in Bend, Ore. We talk with experts about how rarely an armed civilian ends an attack like this and how gun rights groups are responding.
Rhoam Summer, five, was one of four people killed in the attack at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday
Thursday was just another day in Bend, Oregon, when carpenter Kaylub Giamanco got up, took his two daughters to Silver Rail Elementary School, and went to work. Then came a […]
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Oct 16, 9:08 PM: Western Journal joined the source map.
Oct 16, 9:09 PM: The Mirror UK joined the source map.
Oct 16, 9:11 PM: NPR Politics joined the source map.
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Now: Wording Gap is 82/99 and story health is stable · 55 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.