A 29-year-old Iola woman killed herself early Tuesday after barricading herself and her three children in her home for more than three hours, with law enforcement outside. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported the incident,…

It was easy to believe. A 7-year-old black girl had been shot to death while riding in a car with her mother and three sisters. Witnesses described the possible assailant as a white man. Immediately…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested several gang members and seized eight firearms after two people were wounded in a gang-related shooting in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports that the…

FLORISSANT, Mo. — A 6-year-old girl was accidentally shot and killed by an older sibling Friday while their parents were away at a Christmas party, police say. Maliyah Palmer died after being shot in the…

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — As Sunday came in Thousand Oaks, people turned to all the things that brought them comfort. Following a week of double tragedies — a bar shooting that killed 12 and a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities in Crimea were searching today for a possible accomplice of the student whose shooting-and-bomb attack on his vocational school killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 others, a top…