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The owner of a funeral company has been charged with murder after police say he shot and killed a pallbearer before a burial service for a 10-year-old girl at a Prince George’s County, Maryland, cemetery.Wilson Chavis, 48, of Hughesville, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 30-year-old Ronald Steven Banks, of D.C., Prince George’s County police said in a news release Wednesday.The shooting happened about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday at Washington National Cemetery on Suitland Road, shortly before burial services for 10-year-old Ariana Davis. The girl was struck by a stray bullet while riding home...

The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies. About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

Two wounded in attempted holdup at Tacoma auto parts store THE NEWS TRIBUNE Published: September 29th, 2005 11:10 AM DEAN J. KOEPFLER/The News Tribune Tacoma police officers and investigators comb through evidence in front of the Schuck's Auto Supply store at 72nd and Portland Ave. in Tacoma Thursday morning at the scene of a double shooting. Two people were wounded Thursday morning in an attempted robbery at an auto parts store at 72nd and Portland Avenue in Tacoma. Police gave this account:A man with a gas can came into the Schucks Auto Supply store and began to fuel a motorcycle...