A New York imam and his assistant were gunned down in broad daylight Saturday after prayers at a nearby mosque, police said ( Read more... )

An unarmed black therapist is suing the Florida police officer who shot him while he tried to protect his autistic client ( Read more... )

Dylann Roof, accused of the racially motivated massacre of nine African American parishioners last year at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, was attacked and beaten Thursday by a black inmate in a South Carolina jail, authorities said.
Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon Jr. said that Roof, who is white, was out of his cell and on his way to the ( Read more... )

A German-Iranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said on Saturday.

The 18-year-old, born and raised locally, opened fire near a busy shopping mall on Friday evening, triggering a lockdown in the Bavarian state capital.

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When a 23-year-old autistic man carrying a toy truck wandered from a mental health center out into the street Monday, a worker there named Charles Kinsey went to retrieve him ( Read more... )

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Three officers are confirmed dead and three others wounded after a shooting in Baton Rouge, a sheriff's office spokeswoman said Sunday. One suspect is dead and law enforcement officials believe two others are still at large, the spokeswoman said ( Read more... )

Track Palin, son of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, reached a plea agreement in an Anchorage court this week on initial charges of punching a woman in the face at the family's home in January, the Alaska DaIly News reports ( Read more... )

Last night, after officers were shot, the Dallas police posted a photo of a person of interest. The photo showed a man in a camouflage shirt walking with a rifle strapped to his body. Immediately, Twitter sleuths began pointing out that the same man was visible in videos when the shots began. He was clearly not shooting. In fact, one video even ( Read more... )