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In mass killings, kids caught in the crossfire Eight-year-old Katrina Yuzefpolsky didn't even realize she had been shot.

USA Today study shows FBI inaccuracy When USA Today started investigating mass killings, it seemed fairly straightforward: How many times have at least four people died at the hands of another in a single incident? Yet marking the death toll of mass killings is anything but simple.

New Orleans police have arrested two men in the Nov. 13 shooting deaths of a 7-month-old infant and his father in an ambush near a New Orleans bridge spanning the Mississippi River.

A Nashville bar owner has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of singer-songwriter Wayne Mills.

A 97-year-old Cushing man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his granddaughter.

A man accused of killing his girlfriend and ex-girlfriend now faces additional charges of attempting to escape from jail.

A Minnesota resident says he won't fight extradition to Iowa to face charges that he killed his wife in Iowa City more than 16 years ago.

Scottie Fead and Dayquane Coley are charged with second-degree murder, robbery and assault in the shooting death of Steven Killings and the wounding of a second person.

"I can't bring myself to believe that Tennis Maynard just woke up one morning and thought, "I'm going to go kill the Sheriff today," stated Rosie Crum, the widow of former Sheriff Eugene Crum, who was killed on April 3rd of this year.

A South Florida man used a crossbow to kill his wife and teenage son in their townhouse, tried to kill a second son who is a student at Florida State University and wound up dead in a motel bathroom, authorities said Wednesday.

Southbound Interstate 5 in Stockton reopened hours after an officer-involved shooting shut it down during the busy morning commute.

Jeffrey Dingman, center, arrives with his lawyers for a parole board meeting at the State Prison Thursday Dec. 5, 2013 in Concord, N.H. .

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A convicted killer already serving a life sentence has been charged in the shooting death of an aspiring teacher gunned down for his iPod a month after moving to Philadelphia.

Authorities in North Carolina have arrested two men in a pair of shooting deaths near Wingate University that prompted a campus lockdown.

A 45-year-old Florida man has received a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after accepting a plea deal in the 1991 rape and killing of a mother of five at a suburban Detroit social agency where she worked as a custodian.

The motorcycle mechanic accused in a deadly shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport last month faces his first court hearing Wednesday.

A Connecticut college student arrested carrying two handguns on campus also had an assault rifle and bullets in his car, and police found 2,700 rounds of ammunition and newspaper clippings of the Colorado theater shooting at his home, authorities said Wednesday.

As memories fade from last December's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Conn., a new national poll indicates that support for stricter gun control laws appears to be fading, too.

An attorney says a New York train engineer experienced a nod or "a daze" before his train derailed at a curve, killing four passengers.