Diane Toscano, one of her attorneys, said the verdict sends a message that what happened at the school “was wrong and is not going to be tolerated, that safety has to be the first concern at school”....

A former Virginia schoolteacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student two years ago has been awarded $10m (£7.6m) in damages by a jury.

“A gun changes everything,” a lawyer for the teacher, Abby Zwerner, told jurors Wednesday, stressing it was the job of defendant Ebony Parker, then an assistant principal, to make sure everyone on cam...