Suspected Alabama gunman holed up with boy in bunker after school bus shooting - CBS News

Suspected Alabama gunman holed up with boy in bunker after school bus shooting - CBS News: "A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 6-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said.

SWAT teams took up positions around the gunman's rural property and police negotiators tried to win the kindergartener's safe release.

The gunman, reported to be a 65-year-old retired truck driver, was known around the neighborhood as a menacing figure who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a shotgun."

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Atlanta School Shooting Update: Armed officer working at middle school disarmed suspect, says chief - Crimesider - CBS News

Atlanta School Shooting Update: Armed officer working at middle school disarmed suspect, says chief - Crimesider - CBS News: "Atlanta's police chief says an armed officer working at a city middle school where a student was shot was able to disarm the suspect, also a student, moments after the shooting. "

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Texas prosecutor killed near courthouse, report says - Crimesider - CBS News

ASSASSINATED IN TEXAS!

Texas prosecutor killed near courthouse, report says - Crimesider - CBS News: "Authorities say a Texas assistant district attorney has been shot and killed near the Kaufman County courthouse where he worked.

The shooting occurred just before 9 a.m. Thursday outside a building across from the main Kaufman County courthouse. Authorities say two suspects in the shooting are being sought. No motive has been released."

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Phoenix Shooter on the Lam - The Daily Beast

Phoenix Shooter on the Lam - The Daily Beast: "As former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was testifying on Capitol Hill Wednesday about the urgent need for gun control, a man in her home state was killed in an office shooting spree.

Steven D. Singer, 48, was the CEO of Fusion Contact Centers, a Scottsdale company that provides its clients with technical support, billing, and other services. Singer, whose company is involved in litigation with a man police have identified as a “person of interest” in the shooting, had been attending a mediation session at a law firm within a Phoenix office compex"

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Boy, 14, accidentally kills his 15-year-old brother with mother's handgun during tragic sleepover | Mail Online

Boy, 14, accidentally kills his 15-year-old brother with mother's handgun during tragic sleepover | Mail Online: "A 14-year-old killed his older brother by accidentally shooting him at their home near McDonough, Georgia, police say.

The 15-year-old Henry County boy died after he was shot in the chest with a handgun during a sleepover.

Police sergeant Joey Smith said that officers responded to a call at the unnamed family's home shortly before 3 am Saturday."

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Nehemiah Griego: Albuquerque pastor's son 15, 'shoots family dead with assault rifle' | Mail Online

Nehemiah Griego: Albuquerque pastor's son 15, 'shoots family dead with assault rifle' | Mail Online: "Nehemiah Griego, 15, arrested and charged with shooting his relatives
Said after killing his parents and three younger siblings he 'reloaded the weapons and then planned to drive to a busy place and kill more people'
Sheriff's office identifies victims as former pastor Gregory Griego, 51, his wife Sara, 40, and their three youngest children Zephania, 9, Jael, 5, and Angelina, 2
Each victim was shot multiple times and police found multiple weapons at the Albuquerque scene including a military-style assault weapon"

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Obama ‘will not oppose’ House GOP plan to suspend debt limit until May - The Washington Post

Obama ‘will not oppose’ House GOP plan to suspend debt limit until May - The Washington Post: "House Republicans are advancing a novel plan to suspend enforcement of the federal debt limit through May 18, a move that would lift the threat of a government default and relieve the air of crisis that has surrounded their budget battle with President Obama."

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Virginia Senate Redistricting Bill Causes Uproar - Business Insider

Virginia Senate Redistricting Bill Causes Uproar - Business Insider: "On a party-line vote, Virginia state Senate Republicans passed a controversial redistricting measure that could give the party an easier path to control in 2015 elections, leaving Democrats furious at what they called a "dirty trick.""

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Las Vegas police in shock after lieutenant kills wife, son, self - U.S. News

Las Vegas police in shock after lieutenant kills wife, son, self - U.S. News: "Las Vegas police were searching for answers Tuesday after one of their own killed his wife and son, called 911 to confess, then set his house on fire and committed suicide as rifle-toting cops moved in.
"I can't think of a reason for this, where something can get so bad that you'd do this," one veteran supervisor told the Las Vegas Review-Journal after the Monday murder-suicide.
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How Obama Can Become Our Era’s Reagan - The Daily Beast

How Obama Can Become Our Era’s Reagan - The Daily Beast: "Barack Obama’s speech was elegantly pugnacious, a fine articulation of civic-republican liberalism and a very clear statement of a political agenda, with its specific mentions of climate change and inequality and other concerns. As others have noted, it was his most openly liberal speech as president, and it tells us what he aiming for in term two. He wants to do for liberalism (without using the word of course; we’re still not at that point yet) what Ronald Reagan did for conservatism. And he can—but only if he understands and acts on the differences between his situation and Reagan’s, and not their similarities."

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