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Gun industry converges near Las Vegas mass shooting site
The gun industry is holding its biggest annual trade show this week just a few miles from the site where a gunman slaughtered 58 concertgoers outside his high-rise Las Vegas hotel room in October using a display case worth of weapons, many fitted wit...
Mass shootings aren't more frequent - but they are deadlier
ATLANTA (AP) — It can sometimes seem as though mass shootings are occurring more frequently. Researchers who have been studying such crimes for decades say they aren't, but they have been getting deadlier. In the five years since a gunman killed 2...
Texas massacre is seized on by both sides in gun debate
Gun-rights supporters have seized on the Texas church massacre as proof of the well-worn saying that the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, say the tragedy shows once more that it is too...
Vegas shooting doesn't change opinions on guns: AP-NORC poll
ATLANTA (AP) — The slaying of five dozen people in Las Vegas did little to change Americans' opinions about gun laws. The nation is closely divided on whether restricting firearms would reduce such mass shootings or homicides, though a majority f...
Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight
ATLANTA (AP) — The Las Vegas gunman possessed a little-known device called a "bump stock" that was not widely sold — until now. Originally created with the idea of making it easier for people with disabilities to shoot a gun, the attachments all...
No college? Smoked pot? The police still might hire you
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police departments are relaxing age-old standards for accepting recruits, from lowering educational requirements to forgiving some prior drug use, to try to attract more people to their ranks. The changes are designed to d...
Flesh-eating bacteria claimed vet's limbs, but not her drive
DACULA, Ga. (AP) — A year ago, Cindy Martinez was struggling to walk even just a few feet and lift just five pounds. A flesh-eating bacteria had ravaged the 35-year-old Marine veteran's body. She had a grim choice: Amputate both legs, an arm below t...
FBI data show increase in murder, violent crime in 2015
WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 26, 2016) — Are Americans safer? It depends on where you live. A report issued Monday by the FBI says the number of murders rose by more than 10 percent in 2015 from the previous year, while violent crime overall was u...
Time gap in offering aid after police shooting stirs concern
ATLANTA (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — Philando Castile. Eric Garner. And now Terence Crutcher. Each was a black man killed in a confrontation with an officer, with the aftermath captured on video. And each time, the video leaves the impression of a...
