13 h. ago Suspect at large after turning the tables and shooting two men sent by sex worker following payment dispute, police say

Police have arrested three people following the double homicide, none of them being the suspected shooter

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15 h. ago A US pastor abducted in South Africa has been rescued after a police shootout

South African law enforcement officials have rescued an American missionary who was abducted by armed and masked men as he was preaching in the Eastern Cape province last week

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32 h. ago Multiple people fired weapons in shooting at an Arkansas park that killed 2, police say

Police say multiple people fired weapons during a weekend shooting at a city park in Arkansas that killed two and injured nine others

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33 h. ago At least four injured at Dallas high school shooting prompting massive police response

Emergency responders were seen arriving at the school after reports of the shooting

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33 h. ago Shooting reported at a Dallas high school, and officials soon after say campus secured

School officials in Texas say police have responded to reports of a shooting at a Dallas high school where students were seen leaving the campus

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34 h. ago One teen shot at Dallas high school prompting ‘active shooter’ calls and massive police response

Multiple emergency responders were seen arriving at the school upon a report of a shooting incident

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35 h. ago Wilmer Hutchins High School 'shooting': Huge police response in Dallas after 'gunshots'

Wilmer Hutchins High School in Texas has evacuated pupils following a reported shooting. This is a breaking news story.

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60 h. ago 2 killed, 9 injured in shooting at a city park in Arkansas, police say

Two people have been killed and nine others injured in a shooting at a city park in Arkansas

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3 d. ago Autistic boy, 17, with cerebral palsy dies a week after he was shot by police

Victor Perez, a 17-year-old boy described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled, was gunned down by Idaho police from behind a chain-link fence.

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4 d. ago Weezer bassist confirms Coachella gig in bizarre response to wife's shooting and arrest

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner is moving forward with the band’s Coachella performance, despite his wife Jillian’s recent shooting and arrest in a police incident

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5 d. ago Weezer bassist Scott Shriner speaks out after wife's police shooting

Lauren, 51, was taken into custody on Tuesday after an incident in a residential neighbourhood involving police and a group of hit-and-run suspects

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6 d. ago Weezer bassist's wife filmed morbid reality TV show about famous serial killer before shock police shooting

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner's wife Jillian Lauren Shriner took her interest in dark subjects to new extremes when she appeared on an episode of the reality series Ghost Adventures.

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6 d. ago Father killed mum and three children then uttered three chilling words

Damien Bendall, 32, has been handed a whole-life sentence after he admitted murdering his partner Terri Harris, 35, her daughter Lacey Bennett, 11, son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey's friend Connie Gent, also 11, at the home they shared in Derby

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7 d. ago Chilling truth about 'screaming' Egyptian mummy with face locked in horror for 3,500 years

The mummified woman was believed to have died during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt - and the cause of death may have been horrific given the frozen look of terror displayed on the mummy's face

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7 d. ago Weezer bassist's wife shot by police 'after pointing gun at them' in Los Angeles

Jillian Lauren, 51, was shot after allegedly refusing to drop her gun when ordered to do so by police

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7 d. ago Mum's chilling three words to police after shooting her three children while driving home

Diane Downs claimed a "bushy-haired stranger" had flagged her down and opened fire on her and her three children, one of whom tragically died

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8 d. ago Woman gets 12 years in prison for shooting up Connecticut police department lobby

A Connecticut woman who walked into a police department lobby and fired a handgun five times has been sentenced to 12 years in prison

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8 d. ago 'Doomsday cult' mum's 10 chilling words as she faces trial for husband murder plot

Lori Vallow Daybell is on trial in Arizona for conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, having been convicted of murdering two of her children - Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, 7

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9 d. ago Autistic teen fighting for life after being shot multiple times by police in Idaho

The shooting sparked protests outside the Pocatello Police Department on Sunday

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1 week ago Four hospitalized after man sets upon group of children with meat cleaver, prompting police shooting

The shooting happened after the unidentified man attacked 'a number of children' aged 8 to 16 with a meat cleaver at a home in Bensonhurst, commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

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