Police arrested a 28-year-old man this morning and charged him with capital murder in the deaths of two motorists who were shot in their cars on Mississippi highways.
The trial of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik got underway in Oslo today, with the defendant admitting that he killed 77 people last July, but that he was acting in self-defense and doesn't recognize the authority of the court anyway.
Police in Tulsa announced that the two white men accused of shooting five black people last Friday confessed to the shootings almost immediately after they were arrested.
Police have arrested two men in Tulsa for the murders of three black men and the shooting of two others that happened on Friday.
A bizarre gang war erupted at a funeral in Miami. Two are dead, 12 injured.
We had a hunch Al Jazeera would decide not to air the video footage it received from Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah, and on Tuesday the network tersely confirmed that while an official source told the AP that the video came from an accomplice, not Merah himself.
Police finally stormed the apartment of the man accused of shooting seven people in France and the gunman is now dead after a bloody shootout.
Reuters is reporting that Mohammed Merah has turned himself in. Merah is the prime suspect in the shootings last week which claimed the lives of three French soldiers and shooting four people (three children) at a Jewish school on Monday.
Whoever opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, Southern France, used the same gun as the one that shot four paratroopers last week.
Four people, including two children, are reported dead after a shooting outside a Jewish school in France, in an attack that resembles the murders of three French soldiers last week.
We couldn't imagine how the story of the murder-suicide that left seven dead on Christmas Day could be even more heartbreaking -- not until we read the Associated Press's retelling of the events based on text messages sent by a 22-year-old victim.
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