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PARKLAND, Fla. — A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut...

Wareham Police and neighboring law enforcement agencies are responding to a motel where an occupant has reportedly barricaded himself in a room.

City employees are undergoing training for a scenario they hope never unfolds. New Bedford Police Spokesman Lt. Amos Melo says starting this week, City employees have begun learning what to do in the event an active shooter storms their building...

Police say a man has been shot dead after entering a movie theater in southwestern Germany, apparently with a weapon. They say they believe that no one else was injured in the incident.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has been placed on a security alert after a shooting on a street outside. An armed man is in custody after being shot by a Secret Service agent near the White House. The shooting happened at a security station outside the White House complex...

Old Rochester Regional High School and Junior High School were cleared of a threat that was made Thursday morning. Douglas White, Superintendent of the Old Rochester Regional School District, says a threat was reported to Mattapoisett Police just before noon Thursday, with officers from Marion, Rochester, and Mattapoisett responding to the campus...

A security guard is dead after a gunman opened fire at a Federal building in Lower Manhattan. Police say the gunman is identified as 68-year-old Kevin Downing of Fort Lee, New Jersey. After entering the lobby, Dowing approached the metal detectors and shot a security guard at close range with a handgun...

A Massachusetts man accused of firing a gun near the Fitchburg State University campus has been held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing, but his lawyer questions the evidence. Twenty-eight-year-old Justin Beauregard was arraigned Friday on charges of carrying a firearm without a license, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building and possession of ammunition without a firearms I

(Antioch, TN)  --  Police are confirming that a gunman is dead after reports of a shooting at a movie theater in Antioch, Tennessee.  Police say the suspect had a gun and a hatchet when he entered the theater in the Nashville suburb.  The gunman reportedly opened fire on a police officer and was later engaged by SWAT officers...

The president of Florida State University says the campus is safe and there is no further threat. The university in Tallahassee was the scene of a shooting early Thursday in which three students were injured. FSU President John Thrasher released a message on Twitter this morning regarding the shooting, which he says has been established as "an isolated incident...