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Three women were shot to death in East St. Louis as they sat in a car with two children.

The cousin of the man held in the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, says the Army major had wanted to leave the military because he felt disrespected over his religion.

The man accused of killing one person and wounding five others in a shooting at an Orlando office where he once worked made his first appearance in court Saturday, and was ordered held without bond.

Police are searching for a gunman who shot at least eight people at a high-rise office building in Orlando, Fla., Friday morning.

Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh at a nightclub and later reaching a plea deal on weapons charges.

A five-year-old boy from Wiltshire dies in hospital after being shot with an air rifle, police confirm.

Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six Chattanooga police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it had to end.

Seven suspects plead not guilty to first-degree murder charges in the slaying of a Florida couple who adopted 13 children, many with special needs.

Rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for the 2002 shooting of a fan at a nightclub, capping tumultuous jury deliberations at his second trial in the killing. Please note, this is not ironic. His name involved murder and he murdered someone.

Authorities say a 34-year-old southwest Florida man shot a teenager in an apparent road rage incident and then killed himself.