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Chaos ensued after the police encountered a gunman in a thickly wooded area on Tuesday.

An explosion brought down a house in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least five people, but the cause of the blast was not immediately known, a police said.

Ten months after a multimillion-dollar Florida lottery winner was last seen, police Wednesday said they fear he has met with "an untimely death."

Police are trying to find a motive today behind a shooting on the city's east side Monday night that killed three people and wounded one. According to Detroit Police 2nd Deputy Chief John Roach, the incident occurred at about 9 pm at home in ...

Oregon police say at least one person has been killed in a shooting reported at a suburban Portland office park.

Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six Chattanooga police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it had to end.

A man has been arrested in connection with the July shooting death of former boxing champion Vernon Forrest, Atlanta police said Tuesday night.

Police are investigating multiple shootings reported at a Texas Southern University event.

Police shot dead two Uighurs on Monday in renewed unrest in China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang, Reuters reported state radio as saying.

A man suspected of killing five people and terrorizing a South Carolina community was shot to death Monday by police investigating a burglary complaint at a home 30 miles away.