Witness recounts Vegas Strip rampage: ‘It was gas the whole way’
Eric Pitkanen had been in Las Vegas for less than nine hours, and he already missed his 15-month-old son back home in Oregon. As the athletic trainer and his team...
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A century ago, fear of a Roman Catholic plot to take over America
The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo., had grown so quickly in its first four years that rail officials had to build extra tracks for...
Two police killings of young black men, and how two cities responded
A young black man dies at the hands of police. Community members grow angry as officials limit the release of information to a trickle. The city governments of Baltimore and...
Va. mayor advocates refusing refugees, citing Japanese internment
A Virginia mayor ignited a backlash Wednesday after he cited America's mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II as support for his call to deny Syrian refugees the...
Man arrested in Mizzou threats had ‘deep interest’ in Oregon mass shooting
The white college student arrested on suspicion of posting a social media threat to shoot black University of Missouri students expressed a "deep interest" in the Umpqua Community College massacre...
Tension and fear continue to roil the University of Missouri
On the desolate Arts & Sciences mall, 18-year-old freshman Kyra Guerrero sat alone Wednesday, sipping a cup of coffee. The University of Missouri's normally bustling sidewalks were eerily empty. The...
St. Louis area shaken by 7 church fires in two weeks
It was about 6:30 a.m. when a priest texted a strange message to Dale Wunderlich: "Sorry to hear about the fire at the Shrine.""What — what — what?" thought Wunderlich,...
Rare defeat in court ‘puts gun dealers across America on notice’
Strict federal protections couldn't save the firearms industry from an unusual defeat in court this week. In a nationally watched case, a Wisconsin jury ruled Tuesday that a Milwaukee-area gun...
Police officers reportedly shot during protests in Ferguson
Two police officers were apparently shot outside the Ferguson Police Department during another night of protests in the troubled Missouri city, according to local media and witness accounts. The Ferguson...
1 dead, dozens hurt when smoke fills Washington, D.C., subway station
One person died and dozens more were taken to hospitals after smoke mysteriously filled a subway tunnel and a major Metro station in Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon and forced...