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A county sheriff's deputy killed his ex-wife in a convenience store parking lot Monday, then shot a Virginia state trooper before being gunned down himself, police said.

Venezuelan prosecutors say a newspaper columnist who was also an opposition political activist has been shot to death.

Police block off the tenth Street garage where a homicide took place at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday, May 10, 2011.

Neighbors on a quiet Mid-Wilshire street expressed shock early Sunday over the shooting death of Gabriel Aron Benmeir, who worked for MTV.

Tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators march after Friday prayers in cities across Syria to demand the overthrow of the Assad regime. At least 57 protesters are reported killed as security forces respond to the unprecedented challenge with tear gas and bullets.

Six people were killed and at least 13 injured in a shooting incident at a shopping mall in the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn on Saturday, the town's mayor told reporters.

Security forces and plainclothes gunmen opened fire on crowds of Yemenis marching through a southern city Monday in an intensifying crackdown against the uprising.

Violence erupted as tens of thousands of Syrians took to the streets across the country, in the most widespread unrest in years.

A Taco Bell customer enraged that the seven burritos he ordered had gone up in price fired a BB gun at an employee and later fired an assault rifle at officers, police said.

Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean was recovering Sunday after he was shot in the hand, his publicist said.