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Police: College student disarmed Seattle gunman

SEATTLE (AP) — A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and knife opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally...

Man facing 3 charges after Ga. college shooting

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A man apprehended after a shooting at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, is facing charges that include aggravated assault. Richmond County...

Obama offers solace to nation at Fort Hood

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — President Barack Obama returned to the grieving Army post Wednesday where he first took on the job as the...

Despite safety emphasis, school shootings continue

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's been no real reduction in the number of U.S. school shootings despite increased security put in place after the rampage...

Excerpts of editorials from Illinois newspapers…Something must be done – soon

January 20, 2014 Edwardsville Intelligencer Something must be done - soon There are heroes and there are victims. There are those who go to prison and those...

3 Brashear students shot; suspect calls it retaliation

This photo provided by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013 shows Anjohnito Willet arrested as the shooter of three Pittsburgh high...

After Kenya mall attack, children’s trauma lingers

14-month old Azzurra sits with a lipstick kiss on her cheek from her mother Cynthia Carpino, both of whom were caught up in the Westgate Mall attack, at their apartment in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) by Rukmini CallimachiAssociated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When the shooting began at the Nairobi mall, Cynthia Carpino and her husband hid in the parking lot. But their 1-year-old daughter wouldn't stop crying. To muffle her cries, her father placed his hand over her mouth so hard she almost suffocated. Little Azzurra fainted in his arms, and three weeks later she's still not right.

Obama laments shooting as gun debate has gone cold

President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) by Nedra PicklerAssocitaed Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday wearily lamented "yet another mass shooting," this time in the nation's capital where the debate that raged earlier this year over tightening firearms laws has stalled amid opposition from gun-rights advocates.

Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice

In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)...

Obama lambasts Senate gun vote as ‘shameful day’

ANGRY--Neil Heslin, father of Newtown victim Jesse Lewis, left, and former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., stand with President Barack Obama as he pauses while surrounded by Newtown families and speaking about measures to reduce gun violence, in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) by Nedra Pickler WASHINGTON (AP) — A visibly infuriated President Barack Obama surrounded himself with tear-stained parents of Connecticut school shooting victims Wednesday after the Senate voted down a measure designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and declared it a "pretty shameful day for Washington."

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