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Newtown parents want police to stay at schools
Since the elementary school massacre in her hometown, Sarah Findley has found herself driving by her children's schools in Newtown, checking to make ...
Massacre-hardened Colorado a gun control test case
After the annual late-summer harvest on his farm in the eastern reaches of Colorado, Greg Brophy has a few friends over, breaks out the handguns and ...
Biden pledges urgent Obama action on gun control
Vice President Joe Biden vowed urgent action against gun violence in America Wednesday, pledging steps by the Obama administration that he said could ...
Arizona sheriff launches patrols outside schools
The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix has launched a plan to have as many as 500 armed volunteers patrol areas just outside schools in an effort to ...
Conn. moves cautiously on guns in Newtown's wake
A month after the Newtown school tragedy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is moving cautiously on gun control in Connecticut, a relatively liberal Northeastern ...
Self-portraits: Holmes sticks out tongue, has guns
The photos were chilling and enigmatic, just like their subject. In the pictures, taken on his IPhone hours before the Aurora movie theater massacre, ...
Violence plays role in shorter US life expectancy
The United States suffers far more violent deaths than any other wealthy nation, due in part to the widespread possession of firearms and the practice ...
Gun events show divide 2 years after Ariz shooting
Two dueling gun events played out in the hometown of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on the second anniversary of her shooting, illustrating the ...
'Gangster Squad' to debut after reality intervened
"Gangster Squad" director Ruben Fleischer was stepping out of the shower on the night of July 20 last year when he received a chilling phone call from ...
Gun dealers challenge rifle reporting requirement
A lawyer for two Arizona gun dealers argued Wednesday that the Obama administration in trying to halt the flow of U.S. guns to Mexican drug gangs ...
Officials talk guns, hold buybacks after shootings
The national gun debate swelled Tuesday as Arizona and the country commemorated the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., two years ago that killed six ...
Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effort
Tuesday was not just a day for Tucson to remember the victims of the deadly shooting that severely injured then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. It was ...
Fox: No content changes to drama on serial killer
Fox's entertainment chief said Tuesday that the network did not change the content of "The Following," its upcoming drama about a serial killer, ...
Utah town makes arming households a top priority
Officials in a small Utah town want to make sure every head of household has a firearm and knows how to use it, and they want to give school teachers ...
Conn. grants $500K for lost business in Newtown
For Vito Kala, owner of an Italian restaurant not far from a street leading to the grade school in Newtown where 20 children and six educators were ...
White House tries to keep momentum on gun control
Less than a month after a horrific elementary school shooting, the White House is fighting to keep the momentum for new gun legislation amid signs ...
Sheriff thinks Conn. tragedy a factor in bomb plot
An Alabama teenager who called himself a white supremacist is accused of plotting to attack classmates and a teacher with small homemade explosives, ...
CA school slaying suspect found unfit for trial
A man accused of killing seven people at a small Northern California Christian college is not mentally fit for trial, a judge ruled before temporarily ...
Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Calif. school
A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from a Southern California elementary school Monday while police searched buildings to ...
Conn. mayor: Name school for teacher in massacre
The mayor of a city near Newtown, Conn., on Monday proposed naming a school after Victoria Soto, a teacher who was killed in last month's elementary ...
Fewer gun buyers seen in US mass shooting states
People who lived in the two states that saw the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012 were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the ...
Fewer excited gun-buyers in Colo. and Conn.
In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of ...
Police among 13 suspects slain in Philippine clash
At least three police personnel were among 13 suspected criminals who were gunned down in a shootout with Philippine security forces at a highway ...
Indonesian anti-terror squad criticized for deaths
Indonesia's U.S.-funded police anti-terror squad has killed seven suspected militants recently, reviving allegations that the force is not trying to ...