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137 police shots, 2 dead: Many questions in Ohio

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 16th

By By THOMAS J. SHEERANAssociated Press CLEVELAND (AP) - A chase that ended with 13 officers firing 137 rounds, killing two people, began with a pop - perhaps a gunshot or backfire from a car speeding past police headquarters. For the next 25 minutes late in the night of Nov. 29, the car

Lieberman, Democrats want ban on assault weapons

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 16th

By By ANNE FLAHERTYAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic lawmakers and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that military-style assault weapons should be banned and that a national commission should be established to examine mass shootings in the United States. The proposals were

Lieberman, Democrats want ban on assault weapons

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 16th

Some of the deadliest school shootings in the US

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 16th

By By The Associated Press A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, 20 of them children, and himself on Friday. A look at some other school shootings in years past: - April 2, 2012: A gunman killed seven people in a rampage at a Christian university in California. The

Conn. victims: Lively youngsters, devoted adults

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 16th

By By The Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering

Suspect in Mo. deputy shooting death apprehended

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 16th

MINERAL POINT, Mo. (AP) - A man shot and killed a sheriff's deputy in Missouri early Saturday as emergency workers loaded an unconscious person into the back of an ambulance, authorities said. Christopher Parsons, who became a deputy in October, was shot and killed while responding to a call

Father of Conn. school gunman: We too ask why

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 16th

By By The Associated Press Peter Lanza, the father of 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who shot to death his mother in their home and then slaughtered 26 people in an elementary school before killing himself, issued the following statement Saturday: "Our hearts go out to the families and friends who

US returns Guantanamo prisoner's remains to Yemen

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 15th

MIAMI (AP) - U.S. authorities say the remains of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who died in September have been returned to his native Yemen. A spokesman for the military's Miami-based Southern Command said Saturday that the medical examiner ruled Adnan Latif's Sept. 8 death a suicide. Col. Greg

Conn. dad recalls loving, creative 6-year-old

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 15th

By By BRIDGET MURPHYAssociated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Fighting back tears and struggling to catch his breath, the father of a 6-year-old gunned down in the school shooting in Connecticut told the world Saturday about a little girl who loved to draw and was always smiling, and he also

Okla. teen arrested in school shooting plot

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 15th

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) - Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him. Police in Bartlesville, a community about 40 miles north of Tulsa,