Investigators on Friday were still struggling to understand why a 16-year-old student had pulled a handgun from his backpack at school, they say, shooting five of his classmates, killing two, in Santa Clarita, California, before turning the gun on himself.
Investigators on Friday said they had not identified a motive for the 16-year-old student who they say pulled a handgun from his backpack at school and shot five of his classmates, killing two, in Santa Clarita, California, before turning the gun on himself.
The 16-year-old student who killed two of his classmates in Santa Clarita, California, died from his self-inflicted gunshot wound on Friday, complicating investigators’ efforts to understand why he pulled a handgun from his backpack and shot five other people.
The 16-year-old student who killed two of his classmates in Santa Clarita, California, died from his self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday, complicating investigators’ efforts to understand why he pulled a handgun from his backpack and shot five other people.
Investigators on Friday were still struggling to understand why a 16-year-old student had pulled a handgun from his backpack at school, they say, shooting five of his classmates, killing two, in Santa Clarita, California, before turning the gun on himself.
What does it mean to complete a sentence of life in prison? One prisoner claims he has done it by serving time until the moment of his death — plus another four years since — and said it is well past time to set him free.
As firefighters worked to contain wildfires across California on Saturday, residents began returning to their homes, business owners surveyed the damage and officials shifted their attention to what had gone wrong and what could be done to prevent — or at least temper — what has become a near-constant threat.
Firefighters in Southern California were battling yet another fast-moving fire Friday, with the new blaze destroying at least two buildings and leading authorities to order 8,000 people to evacuate.
More pedestrians and cyclists were killed last year in the United States than in any year since 1990, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
BALTIMORE — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings was firmly rooted in Baltimore, but for decades his voice extended far from his brick rowhouse on the city’s west side. On Friday, the legacy of his tireless advocacy brought powerful leaders from Washington and elsewhere to his city.
BALTIMORE — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings was firmly rooted in Baltimore, but for decades his voice extended far from his brick rowhouse on the city’s west side. On Friday, the legacy of his tireless advocacy brought powerful leaders from Washington and elsewhere to his city.
The FBI ruled out poisoned alcohol as the cause of two American tourists’ deaths in the Dominican Republic in May, bolstering the country’s findings that a spate of tourist deaths this year were not the result of foul play, a State Department spokesperson said Friday.
Hurricane Dorian, the storm that devastated the Bahamas and put much of the southeastern United States on edge, made landfall over the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday morning.
Hurricane Dorian remained a catastrophic Category 5 storm early Monday as it moved over the Bahamas, although its winds weakened slightly, to 165 mph. Gusts blew at up to 200 mph.
Forecasters’ warnings grew increasingly dire Thursday as they ratcheted up their expectations for Hurricane Dorian, saying it could hit the Florida coast as a Category 4 storm, with winds of at least 130 mph.
Forecasters’ warnings grew increasingly dire Thursday as they ratcheted up their expectations for Hurricane Dorian, saying it could hit the Florida coast as a Category 4 storm, with winds of at least 130 mph.
Richard Ross Jr., the Philadelphia police commissioner, abruptly resigned Tuesday after what the city’s mayor described as a failure to stop harassment and discrimination in the department.
The surprise announcement elicited disbelief, then jubilation from the crowd of 396 graduates at Morehouse College’s commencement in May, and from onlookers like Xavier Antoine, a junior who was photographing the celebration.
Shortly after midnight May 8, a man slipped into an administration building at Johns Hopkins University with a pair of bolt cutters. In a dark stairwell, he got to work, sweating through his shirt as he struggled to cut through the metal chains attached to a first-floor door.
The suspect in the El Paso, Texas, shooting stepped out of a vehicle with his hands up and declared “I’m the shooter” when he was arrested minutes after the massacre at a Walmart that killed 22 people, police said in an affidavit filed Friday.
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