April 19, 2021
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — As protests intensified in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright, a group of Black men joined the crowd intent on keeping the peace and preventing protests from escalating into violence. …
March 9, 2021
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the explosion at 4 …
December 9, 2020
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Families of those killed and wounded in a rural California shooting rampage three years ago are suing manufacturers and sellers of “ghost gun” kits that provide easy-to-assemble firearm parts that make it difficult to track or …
March 13, 2019
Police say an employee of a Connecticut company that builds submarines for the U.S. Navy has been charged with making a “credible threat” against the lives of specific co-workers. Police say 39-year-old Edward Lesniak, of Coventry, Rhode Island, is charged …
June 25, 2013
Three Kansas community colleges have created an insurance consortium in response to higher insurance rates and new laws that allow weapons on campus. The Independence Community College board of trustees voted last week to join Coffeyville and Neosho community colleges …
December 6, 2012
Defending his agency’s expenditures on weapons and police vehicles for use by its anti-fraud unit, Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator said the purchases help ensure the safety of investigators and are not paid for with taxpayer money. The Oklahoma Insurance Department …
January 3, 2012
People heading out to bars in central Pennsylvania are increasingly being asked to show more than proof of their age. Some clubs in the Harrisburg area are passing a metal-detecting wand over customers to make sure they’re not carrying weapons. …
December 29, 2011
Lawyer David Huffman is taking the theft of weapons and other items from a veterans museum personally. Huffman’s law office in Parkersburg, W. Va., is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is …