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Peeved Patron Plugs Postal Worker Resident Shoots Chicago Postal Worker for Allegedly Delivering the Mail Too Late The Associated Press CHICAGO A postal worker in Chicago was shot in the leg late Tuesday after a resident along his postal route allegedly became angry that he was delivering the mail too late. Police said Denny Robinson, 31, was delivering mail around 6:30 p.m. in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood when he was shot in the thigh. Robinson was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment for the non-life-threatening injury. Authorities said witnesses reported hearing a person yelling the postal worker was delivering...

First Known Gunshot Victim in Americas Discovered Kelly Hearn in Buenos Aires, Argentina for National Geographic News June 19, 2007 The first known gunshot victim in the Americas was an Inca Indian killed by a musket-wielding Spaniard nearly 500 years ago in Peru, scientists announced today. (See pictures and watch video.) The casualty's skeleton was discovered in 2004 while excavating an Inca cemetery in the Lima suburb of Puruchuco—less than a mile from thousands of Inca mummy bundles discovered by Peruvian archaeologist Guillermo Cock. The individual may have been killed during an Inca uprising against Spanish conquistadors in 1536, according...

Bathroom Gunshot Stations: Note nature of the following Gun falls and fires when officer drops pants SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ This is a story they'll be telling around the San Antonio Police Department for a long time. A police spokesman says an off-duty officer was at a San Antonio auto auction house yesterday when nature called. Officer Craig Clancy strolled to the appropriate facility and was lowering his trousers when his pistol fell from his waistband. When Clancy fumbled for the falling firearm, it went off -- twice. One of the bullets nicked a bit of floor tile into the...

Glenwood Springs police officers responded to a call Saturday night from Valley View Hospital, where a man was being treated for a gunshot wound. The man told the officers that he'd been shot in a drive-by shooting in Carbondale. Then he told them the drive-by actually happened in Glenwood Springs. Eventually he admitted he shot himself in the left thigh trying to pull a handgun out of his pants while driving in Glenwood Springs. "He decided he better not have us out there pulling over cars that didn't have anything to do with shooting him," said Glenwood Springs Police chief...

Feb 3 2005 10:46AM Putin sends condolences on Georgian PM's death MOSCOW. Feb 3 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a telegram to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili offering condolences over the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, the Kremlin press service said. "I would like to offer my deep condolences on the sudden, tragic death of this prominent state and political figure, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania," reads the telegram. "Zurab Vissarionovich [Zhvania] was well known in Russia as a champion of the development of friendly and good-neighborly relations between the Russian and Georgian peoples," the message said.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday, January 22, 2005 TYLER -- A woman whose abduction was captured on videotape as she was leaving work at a Wal-Mart in Tyler on Wednesday was found shot to death Friday, hundreds of miles away, police said. A suspect was in custody Friday after police said he turned up at an Arizona hospital with a gunshot wound and authorities realized the woman's truck was parked outside. The body of Megan Leann Holden, a 19-year-old college student from Chandler, near Tyler, was found in a ditch alongside Interstate 20 on Friday morning near Stanton, police said. Stanton is...

Iris Chang, whose haunting childhood memories of oral stories about the rape and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians at the hands of Japanese soldiers compelled her to write an acclaimed book about the atrocity, was found dead Tuesday from a self-inflicted gunshot. Chang apparently drove down a road south of Los Gatos and shot herself to death in her car. Santa Clara County Deputy Terrance Helm said a motorist driving Tuesday morning on Highway 17 south of The Cats restaurant in unincorporated Los Gatos and noticed a car a short distance down a private water district road....

Just listened to Mike Grahams radio rant on WMAL. He was talking about the gunshot detectors that the DC police want to put up throughout the city. He made a couple of good points. One - that these devices replace the job the overpaid cops of DC are suppose to do. Two - the irony of a gunshot detectors in the most gun law restrictive city in America. And three - that the DC police couldn't find bones in the dumpster behind a KFC. That last one almost had me on the floor.

<p>A man in Granite Falls, Wash., who slept with a pistol beneath his pillow woke up one morning last week to find the gun had gone off and shot him.</p> <p>The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Saturday that the man, who was not identified, went to bed Thursday night with a loaded .22-caliber revolved tucked under his pistol. Sometime during the night, the gun discharged and shot him in the chest, but he apparently didn't realize he was wounded until he awoke early Friday.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's nominee to be secretary of the Navy, oil executive Colin McMillan, died on Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, the New Mexico medical examiners offices said. McMillan, 67, died at his ranch in southern New Mexico. "The manner of death was suicide," said Tim Stepetic, associate director of New Mexico's Office of the Medical Investigator. "Mr. McMillan died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head." Scot Key, a state district attorney in Alamogordo, New Mexico, said his office was looking into reports that McMillan may have had a recurrence of cancer. A...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier died after he was shot while guarding Baghdad University on Sunday, the U.S. military said. U.S. Central Command in Florida said in a statement the soldier from the 1st Armored Division suffered a "hostile gunshot wound" and was evacuated to a nearby military hospital. He later died of his injuries. Students near the scene said the soldier had been inside the university campus in the southern part of the city when he was shot. A U.S. military helicopter evacuated the soldier and troops sealed off the campus, they said. One student, Abdullah Saad, said...

KENT, Wash. - Two young men died Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide in this south Seattle suburb, police said. Police called to an apartment building found the gunshot victims inside. One, about 21, was dead of a gunshot wound to the neck. The other, 19 years old, died later Sunday morning at Harborview Medical Center of a gunshot wound to the head that was apparently self-inflicted, police spokesman Paul Petersen said. Their names will not be released until Monday at the earliest, said a spokeswoman at the King County medical examiner's office. Three other young men at the scene were...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — Three U.S. soldiers were injured in two separate incidents in eastern Afghanistan and B-52 bombers were called in to protect a U.S. base that came under rocket attack, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday. Two U.S. Special Forces soldiers were treated for facial lacerations Wednesday after an explosive detonated under their vehicle 30 miles northeast of Jalalabad. A second device exploded without hurting anyone and a third was discovered unexploded. Another U.S. soldier was hit in the abdomen by a gunshot Wednesday at Kandahar Air Field. Col. Roger King, a spokesman for the U.S. military in...

Latest News Saturday, Oct 05, 2002 Korean-American Says He Targeted U.N. to Bring Attention to N.K. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York, Oct. 4 (Yonhap) -- Steve Kim, the Korean-American arrested Thursday for firing seven shots into the air in front of the U.N. Headquarters compound, said he did it to bring international attention to the plight of the North Korean people. According to the local press, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report said Kim chose the United Nations as the site because he believed the United Nations is partially responsible for the suffering of North Korean citizens.

SAN DIEGO -- A vehicle carrying 23 illegal immigrants across the Mexico-U.S. border was shot at Friday, injuring eight men inside, authorities said. Three of the men were hospitalized in stable condition Friday with gunshot wounds. The sport utility vehicle was in a desert wash in northern Mexico when it was first attacked. It came under fire again after crossing into the United States, authorities said. Mexican and U.S. officials were investigating one man's claim that the shots may have come from a Mexican military unit, said Sgt. Manuel Garcia of the Imperial County Sheriff's Department. A spokesperson for the...