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CORRECTS TO A LAKE FOREST POLICE OFFICER, INSTEAD OF LAKE COUNTY A Lake Forest, Ill., police officer walks down Central Ave in Highland Park, Ill., on Monday, July 4, 2022, after a shooter fired on the northern suburb’s Fourth of July parade. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune via AP)

July 8, 2022 at 6:10 pm

The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings

The surge in gun violence comes as firearm purchases rose to record levels in 2020 and 2021, with more than 43 million guns estimated to...

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July 5, 2022 at 5:48 am

Threats from Highland Park suspect drew police attention in 2019

Robert Crimo III, detained as a "person of interest" in the Highland Park shooting, was a local rapper whose online presence contained tinges of violence.

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Victor Escalon, Regional Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety South, speaks to the press during a news conference outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Escalon says the 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 21 people at an elementary school entered the building “unobstructed” through a door that was apparently unlocked. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) TXDL111

May 26, 2022 at 9:13 pm

How the official accounts about the Uvalde shooting have changed

Since a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, authorities have provided an incomplete explanation of what happened.

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December 10, 2021 at 3:54 am

Many relatives of school shooters ignore glaring warning signs. This Everett grandmother didn’t

Unlike the parents in the Oxford, Michigan, school shooting, guardians are rarely held accountable when their children fire shots on campuses. In some cases, though,...

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November 22, 2021 at 9:48 am

After SUV slammed into Wisconsin parade and killed 5, driver to be charged with homicide

WAUKESHA, Wis. - The driver accused of plowing his SUV through a Christmas parade in this suburban Milwaukee city on Sunday will face five counts...

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November 15, 2021 at 5:14 pm

Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate is up to a jury tasked with deciding if he acted in self-defense

KENOSHA, Wis. - Jurors in Kyle Rittenhouse's homicide trial are set to begin deliberations on Tuesday, putting the fiercely divisive case and the teenager's fate...

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October 2, 2021 at 7:26 am

As coronavirus cases mount and vaccine mandates spread, holdouts plague police and fire departments

Despite the toll the pandemic has taken, tensions over vaccinations have only increased as unions and individual officers and firefighters have railed against mandates, filing...

June 30, 2021 at 12:08 pm

Florida officials vow rescue effort at Surfside condo will continue, despite time, storm threat

SURFSIDE, Fla. — Florida leaders vowed Wednesday that they will not abandon the search for survivors in the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condo...

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April 16, 2021 at 5:40 pm

Indianapolis shooter was former FedEx employee, had had gun seized by police, authorities say

INDIANAPOLIS - The gunman who carried out a massacre at a FedEx sorting facility, killing eight people before shooting himself, was a 19-year-old former employee...

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April 14, 2021 at 1:08 pm

Derek Chauvin defense expert blames heart disease and drug use for George Floyd’s death

MINNEAPOLIS - A prominent forensic pathologist testified for Derek Chauvin's defense Wednesday that George Floyd died of "sudden cardiac arrhythmia" because of existing heart disease...

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