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A couple and their toddler son have been found shot to death in their Orange County apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said today.

A fire chief in Massachusetts is looking in to why it took nearly 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at the scene of a fatal shooting at a baby shower over the weekend.

Six people were killed — including four children — after a shooting at a home in an upscale California neighborhood, police said on Monday.

Police are looking into whether a gunman accused of killing eight people in a North Carolina nursing home may have targeted the facility because his estranged wife worked there.

Eight people have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting at a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, police said.

Three officers and a suspect are dead and another officer is in grave condition after related shootings, the police said.

Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.

No delinquency charges will be filed against the 11-year-old accused of shooting to death a 7-year-old last week — but criminal charges could still be filed against others.

Police are searching this afternoon for a man suspected of fatally shooting his aunt outside an Old East Dallas apartment Saturday night.

Cobb County police are trying to identify a man who hid from authorities inside a van during a standoff with officers, then shot and killed himself.