Hundreds of people said goodbye Thursday to a vibrant 11-year-old boy known as “Smiley,” a week after he was shot to death at his Iowa school by an older student who also wounded seven other children and staff members before …

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A Wisconsin judge suspended charges against defrocked Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the 1970s, ruling Wednesday that the former cleric is incompetent for trial because of dementia. The decision will be reviewed at …

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Authorities in California fatally shot a suspect after they were responding to a domestic situation and he allegedly stormed out of the house and began opening fire on the officers. On Tuesday, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said deputies from …

California suspect armed with ‘assault rifle,’ body armor killed after opening fire on deputies Read more »

A man already facing federal gun charges was charged Wednesday with attempted murder in a Monday shooting that wounded a Chicago police officer responding to a burglary at a high-end store, police said. Deshawn Lucas of Chicago was charged with …

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The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence …

‘Simply devastated’: Parents of Iowa teen who killed 1 and wounded 7 in shooting release statement Read more »