JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three separate police shootings in Mississippi in 2022 were justified, the state Attorney General's Office said Tuesday.In one episode, a woman was hit by a stray police bullet while lying in bed. In another, a woman was shot and killed inside a Walmart after taking an ...
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A man accused of shooting and wounding a New Hampshire bishop and the bride at a church wedding ceremony in 2019 fired at the couple just as they were being pronounced husband and wife, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.“With just a few shots, the defendant turned ...
In a country shadowed by the threat of mass shootings and neighborhood violence, courts have embraced an increasingly absolute reading of the right to guns. That raises difficult questions about how to protect the <a ...
RUMFORD, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement officers in Maine killed a man late Monday after he allegedly confronted officers outside a police station with a rifle.Sean Dyment, 23, of Canton, Maine was shot by deputies from the Oxford County SheriffĢƵ Office as they talked with a resident outside ...
LISBON FALLS, Maine (AP) — Most survivors of the mass shootings at a Maine bowling alley and a bar heard the gunfire and tried to escape.For a group of deaf bowlers, the shattering din of bullets fired from a high-power rifle reached them only as a jolt. There were nine deaf bowlers Oct. 25 ...
BRISTOL, Vt. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in a fatal shooting of another teenager in Bristol, Vermont State Police said Tuesday.The teen from Burlington was in possession of a handgun while sitting in the backseat of a vehicle parked outside a home in Bristol on Monday night ...