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Madison paramedic Brandon Schultz will never forget turning to look at his coworker when the 911 calls first came in late that December morning.
Schultz was in one of the ambulances that rushed to the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison.
A 15-year-old student had opened fire in a study hall, killing 42-year-old teacher Aaron West and 14-year-old Ruby Vergara.
Her father is now facing felony charges after prosecutors say he gave his daughter access to two handguns.
For NPR News, I'm Sarah Lear in Madison.
Over the last several years, the Wisconsin Historical Society says it's found a total of 16 ancient canoes lurking at the bottom of Lake Mendota in south-central Wisconsin.
Tamara Thompson is a maritime archaeologist who helped lead those discoveries.
She suspects that, for millennia, Indigenous people returned to that section of the lake.
She says they may have been stashing their boats for later by burying them under sediment near the shoreline.
What we're seeing really is a parking lot.
The cluster of canoes includes a red oak vessel discovered earlier this year.
It's believed to be 5,200 years old.
That makes it the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region and one of the oldest found in North America.
For NPR News, I'm Sarah Lear in Madison.
Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes says the first law enforcement officers arrived at the school on the east side of the city of Madison within four minutes of a second grader calling 911.
Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes says the first law enforcement officers arrived at the school on the east side of the city of Madison within four minutes of a second grader calling 911.
Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes says the first law enforcement officers arrived at the school on the east side of the city of Madison within four minutes of a second grader calling 911.
Police believe the shooting happened inside a study hall where there were students gathered from multiple grades. The two people killed by the shooter are a teacher and a teenage student.
Police believe the shooting happened inside a study hall where there were students gathered from multiple grades. The two people killed by the shooter are a teacher and a teenage student.