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MANDEVILLE, La. - St. Tammany Parish deputies have arrested three 15-year-olds on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism after they say they thwarted a plan for a possible attack on Lakeshore High school Monday. Deputies said the alleged attack was to include shootings that would have coincided with the start of classes on Monday. Deputies became aware of the plan on July 17th, when school officials notified the Sheriff’s Office of the existence of a group, called “Day Zero,” members of which were all students at the school. Sheriff Strain credited school officials for helping to avert a potentially deadly...

Video Shows Dramatic Septa Bus Shooting The case is heading to trial later this month but a preliminary hearing was held Thursday. Four people will head to trial after Penny Chapman, allegedly upset that another passenger criticized her for spanking her child, called and asked for acquaintances to shoot at the passenger when the bus got to her stop. Chapman was on the Route 47 Septa bus heading north on 7th Street. The video shows her son running up and down the aisle. Finally she grabs the squirming child, and appears to slap him. A man sitting behind her doesn't...

First on Fox: Dramatic video shows gunmen shooting right into a Septa bus in Philadelphia and threatening passengers during an incident in July. Slideshow: Dramatic Bus Shooting Images The case is heading to trial later this month but a preliminary hearing was held Thursday. Four people will head to trial after Penny Chapman, allegedly upset that another passenger criticized her for spanking her child, called and asked for acquaintances to shoot at the passenger when the bus got to her stop. Chapman was on the Route 47 Septa bus heading north on 7th Street.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A teen charged in a mass shooting after Indiana Black Expo's Summer Celebration in 2010 was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison and two years of community corrections. Shamus Patton agreed to a plea deal last month in which he agreed to plead guilty to most of the charges he faced...

Carthage, N.C. — The police officer credited with ending a shooting rampage at a Carthage nursing home that left eight people dead and three others injured two years ago testified Wednesday that he stopped the gunman with one shot.

You just can’t make this up. Oaf Joe Biden told reporters he joked with shooting victim about “cracked heads.” Vice President Joe Biden, with a big smile on his face, walked to the House floor and said, “I came to see Gabby, that’s why I’m here.” …When Biden was asked about what he spoke with Giffords about, he joked, “She’s now a member of the cracked head club like me.”

(Cleveland) -Tragedy and panic struck the Family Unity in the Park concert when shots rang out after a performance by George Clinton. Investigators report, at approximately 9:57 p.m. on Saturday, Fourth District zone cars responded to Luke Easter Park at Martin Luther Boulevard & Reservoir Place for shots fired. Once on scene zone car personnel located four victims with gunshot wounds. EMS was notified, responded to the scene and all four victims were conveyed to MetroHealth Medical Center, where they are being treated for their injuries.

I think that is one lesson that should be learned from the Norway massacre. Public opinion polls in Norway reveal a great deal of dissatisfaction with the country's aggressive Muslim minority. But, outside the anonymity of a poll, you had better not say so. Norway's penal code (Straffeloven, section 135 a) prohibits "hate speech" and defines it as publicly making statements that threaten or ridicule someone or that incite hatred, persecution or contempt for someone due to their skin colour, ethnic origin, homosexual life style or orientation or, religion or philosophy of life. So criticism of Muslims is illegal in...

The Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who shot dead more than 90 young socialists at their summer camp on Friday after mounting a huge bomb attack on the centre of Oslo, has been described as a fundamentalist Christian. Yet he published enough of his thoughts on the internet to make it clear that even in his saner moments his ideology had nothing to do with Christianity but was based on an atavistic horror of Muslims and a loathing of "Marxists", by which he meant anyone to the left of Genghis Khan. Two huge conspiracy theories form the gearboxes of...

KENT -- At least 11 people were injured in a mass shooting Saturday afternoon that may have started with an argument over a paint job at a low-rider car show off Pacific Highway.

After reading the manifesto over several hours the first thing that struck me was just how meticulous Anders Behring Breivik had been. The 1500 page document reveals a chilling obsession with what he saw as being destructive to the world. He dismisses concepts such as political correctness, feminism and major religions and philosophies including Islam and Marxism and defends his views by quoting people he views as authoritative. His writings are done in such a detached man they reveal a man who prided himself on attention to detail, a narcissist who is extremely disciplined. He would have seen his work...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called on people to renounce hatred in the face of the “deep sorrow” felt over the terror attacks in Norway. The pope urged people to pray for the dead, the wounded and their loved ones as he spoke to pilgrims and tourists from the balcony of his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo near Rome. “Unfortunately, yet again comes news of death and violence,” Benedict said at the start of his greetings to the faithful. “We all feel deep sorrow for the grave terrorist acts.” “I want to again repeat my grief-stricken...

A fight at a crowded Kent car show escalated Saturday afternoon, leaving 10 people shot as cars sped away from the scene and frightened spectators ducked into the safety of nearby businesses. Hundreds of people packed the La Plaza parking lot all day before the shooting. At least one shooter fired from the front of the shopping center into the crowd. Patrons and employees in nearby shops and restaurants locked the doors and crouched in back rooms as the crack of gunfire filled the air like fireworks. “First I heard like six shots, then they kept going,” said Alejandro Lara,...

GRAND PRAIRIE (CBSDFW.COM) – A shooter opened fire at a skating rink during a private family event Saturday night, killing five and wounding four before turning the gun on himself, Grand Prairie Police spokesman John Brimmer said.

Iran on Saturday night denied that a man who was shot earlier in the day was a nuclear scientist, as had been reported. According to a statement, a reader on Iran's state-controlled English-language Press TV mispronounced the name of the victim. The name that was announced is indeed a nuclear scientist, but the victim had a different, but similar name. Initial reports had the dead man as 35-year-old Dariush Rezai, a physics professor whose area of expertise was neutron transport, but, the statement said, the actual victim was Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electronics student at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology...

A fight at a crowded Kent car show escalated Saturday afternoon, leaving 10 people shot as cars sped away from the scene and frightened spectators ducked into the safety of nearby businesses. Hundreds of people packed the La Plaza parking lot all day before the shooting. At least one shooter fired from the front of the shopping center into the crowd.

As many as eight people were wounded in a shooting at a car show in Kent, Washington, late Saturday afternoon, according to a King County fire and rescue dispatcher. "We have a ton of medical staff on the scene and are transporting people to local hospitals," the dispatcher said. A witness who works at a business near the shooting site told CNN affiliate KOMO that she heard about 10 shots.

LONDON — A report that Norway's bomb and gun rampage may be the work of a far-right militant confronts Europe with the possibility that a new paramilitary threat is emerging, a decade after al-Qaida's Sept. 11 attacks. One analyst called the attacks possibly Europe's "Oklahoma City" moment, a reference to American right-wing militant Timothy McVeigh who detonated a truck bomb at a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people. Police forces in many western European countries worry about rising far-right sentiment, fueled by a toxic mix of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigotry and increasing economic hardship.

A man was left dead and eight others were wounded in separate overnight shootings on the city's South Side, officials said. The first shooting happened about 11:54 p.m. on the 500 block of East 65th Street in the city's Woodlawn neighborhood. The victim, later identified by the medical examiner's office as Marquis Strong, 26, of the 7100 block of South Yates Avenue, got into a verbal altercation with another man, police said. The second man pulled a gun, shot Yates, and then fled the scene on a bicycle.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A 6-year-old girl critically injured in a drive-by shooting Wednesday night was struck twice by gunfire, the latest in a string of Yakima shootings that have claimed innocent victims.Neighbors identified the girl as Sitlaly Calva-Acevedo and said they had been told she was hit twice in the chest or abdomen when a gunman opened fire on a group of adults and children in the front yard of her home at 905 N. Third St.The shooting occurred at about 10 p.m. Wednesday. The girl’s home is across the street from Barge-Lincoln Elementary School. No arrests have been made...