An 18-year-old accused of firing the shot that wounded an employee outside a middle school building in northeast Las Vegas is facing multiple felonies, police said Tuesday. The gunfire on Monday “took place a few blocks away from the school …
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Half of Chicago residents have experienced a shooting by the time they reach 40, according to a new university study. The study, conducted by several college departments including Harvard University, Nuffield College and University of Cambridge, found that 50% of …
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School shootings are on the rise. Last year was the highest number of shootings since EdWeek began tracking the issue in 2018. So far this year, there have been 19 shootings in K-12 schools resulting in 30 people killed or …
A student who shot two administrators at a Denver high school in March before later apparently killing himself had been seen with a gun there in the weeks before, according to one of them. Another student reported the sighting to …
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A rookie police officer who was critically wounded while responding to a mass shooting at a Louisville bank last month and remains hospitalized is making steady improvements and “remains on the correct path to recovery,” the Louisville Metro Police Foundation …
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A Louisiana man has been charged with aggravated assault and battery after shooting at children who had been playing hide and seek outside his home, striking a 14-year-old girl, officials said. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the back …
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A former U.S. Homeland Security special agent was sentenced to life in federal prison Monday for sexually assaulting two women he silenced by telling them he was “above the law.” John Jacob Olivas, 48, of Riverside was sentenced by a …
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A suspect was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting outside a popular New Orleans restaurant that left a waiter dead and a visitor from Chicago wounded, police said. The suspect was arrested without incident in Houston by U.S. marshals …
A U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of an armed protester in a Black Lives Matter march in Texas faces up to life in prison when his sentencing hearing begins Tuesday, even as Gov. Greg Abbott …
State lawmakers in Texas advanced a bill Monday to raise the age to buy certain semi-automatic rifles, a move that came days after a gunman killed eight people and injured several others at an outdoor shopping mall. The Community Safety, …
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