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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.

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.

Two men including a US soldier have been shot dead at Frankfurt airport. The gunman, believed to be from Kosovo, opened fire on a bus containing US troops in front of Terminal 2. The bus driver and a soldier were killed and two others, thought to be soldiers, were seriously injured.

A shooting that left a teacher dead in downtown Los Angeles occurred in a class teaching vocational students how to become security guards.

Four people were shot late Sunday afternoon outside a Walmart in Washington state, Kitsap County Sheriff's Department spokesman Scott Wilson said.

Police official says a gunman opened fire inside a Detroit police precinct, shooting at least three officers including a commander...

Clay Duke approached the front of the room, spray-painted a red "V" on the wall and brandished a small handgun. He ordered the room cleared of everyone but six men, witnesses say.

Well-known Hollywood publicist Ronni Sue Chasen was shot to death Tuesday in her Mercedes-Benz near Sunset Boulevard, authorities said. Chasen, 64, of Los Angeles was the publicist for movies such as "Driving Miss Daisy" and "On Golden Pond."