Mom of Florida high school massacre victim wins board seat

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The mother of a Florida high school massacre victim easily won a school board seat Tuesday, but the father of another victim was trailing an incumbent and a former teacher lost to another in an election seen as a referendum on district policies before and after February's shooting.

Lori Alhadeff defeated two other candidates for an open Broward County school board seat representing the Parkland area, which includes Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Her daughter was one of 17 killed in the Feb. 14 shooting at the school.

"I know Alyssa would be so proud, and I want to make sure what happens to my daughter doesn't happen to another family,"Alhadeff told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.