A shooting during a morning church service outside St. Louis has left at least one person dead -- the church's pastor -- and several others wounded, officials said. The Rev. Fred Winters was at the pulpit at the First Baptist Church ...Read More
(AP) CHICAGO — Chicago's school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said as his death was met with disbelief by civic leaders and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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Chicago police said an investigation into the death of the city's school board president would continue even as an autopsy concluded the longtime civic leader shot himself in the head on a Chicago River embankment. Chicago Board of Education President Michael ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A gunman opened fire at a group of fighting men, injuring 12 people outside a concert hall, authorities said Monday. The gunfire erupted Sunday night near the Regency Ballroom after several men were involved in a fist ...Read More
A son of Washington state's lieutenant governor has been wounded in a workplace shooting in Kent, Wash. A spokesman for Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, Brian Dirks, says Mark Owen was wounded in the shooting Monday afternoon at the auto body shop ...Read More
SEATTLE -- Washington state's lieutenant governor, Brad Owen, says his son is in satisfactory condition after being shot by one of Owen's close friends in a workplace dispute. Owen says his son, 37-year-old Mark Owen, was shot Monday afternoon in the ...Read More
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.—Investigators on Sunday captured a man they believe opened fire on a car parked at a gas station, killing three women, including an acquaintance of the suspect, state investigators said. Children inside the bullet-riddled vehicle escaped harm. All ...Read More
The Iraqi father accused of running over his daughter and another woman is back in Arizona.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, was booked Saturday into the Fourth Avenue Jail on two charges of aggravated assault, according to a Peoria police ...Read More
Norfolk, Va. -- One service member was killed and eight others injured after an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during a training exercise, the Navy said in a news release. The crash aboard the USNS Artic occurred ...Read More
An Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training, killing one service member and injuring eight, the Navy said. Service members were rappelling down a rope from the helicopter to the USNS Arctic around 8 p.m. Thursday off ...Read More
One service member was killed and eight others injured after an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during a training exercise, the Navy said in a news release. The crash aboard the USNS Artic occurred around 8 p.m. ...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS -- A liquid propane tanker exploded on an Indianapolis highway ramp on Thursday, shooting a fireball of flames and black smoke into the sky and closing a section of one of the city's major expressways for what could be ...Read More
Rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to second-degree weapons possession charges on Thursday in a New York City courtroom, changing his previous not-guilty plea.
Under the terms of the plea bargain the rapper, 27, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., ...Read More
PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too "Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values. Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki ...Read More
A judge says a man accused of gunning down a pastor during his sermon in a southwestern Illinois church is mentally unfit to stand trial. Madison County Circuit Judge Richard Tognarelli made the ruling Tuesday after receiving a court-ordered psychiatric examination ...Read More
Charlie Davies, a starter for the U.S. national soccer team, underwent several hours of surgery for non-life threatening injuries suffered in a fatal auto accident early Tuesday on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, the U.S. Soccer Federation said. Details of the ...Read More
(CNN) -- A man has been arrested and charged with murder in the case of a central Illinois family found beaten to death in their home last month, police said. Christopher Harris, 30, is being held at the Logan County Jail ...Read More
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif.—James and Phyllis Fish did everything together. The Indiana natives both served in World War II -- she was a nurse -- and they filled their ensuing decades of marriage with golfing, world travel and community service at the ...Read More
TOKYO - A bear injured nine people at highway rest stop in central Japan before being shot dead in a souvenir shop, a firefighter said Sunday. The black bear seriously injured four men Saturday afternoon in Nyukawa, a small mountain town ...Read More
A bear injured nine people at highway rest stop in central Japan before being shot dead in a souvenir shop, a firefighter said Sunday. The black bear seriously injured four men Saturday afternoon in Nyukawa, a small mountain town about 140 ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- A teenage boy was struck and killed by a subway train in Washington, D.C., and investigators believe he may have stepped in the train's path on purpose. Metro transit system officials said the unidentified boy was struck about 2 ...Read More
