Civil charges against companies connected to the lone gunman who killed 12 people and wounded eight at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard in 2013 have been dismissed by a federal judge, except for a claim that the companies may have erred by hiring the murderer.
Read moreTaking the stand after his editorial for The New York Times drew legal fire, an opinion editor said Wednesday that he “didn’t remotely intend” to implicate former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a mass shooting.
Read moreSarah Palin sued The New York Times on Tuesday, claiming it defamed her in a June 14 editorial that blamed her for inciting Jared Loughner’s 2011 shooting rampage in Tucson that wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed a federal judge and five other people.
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Dylann Roof on Tuesday asked the Fourth Circuit to overturn his conviction and death sentence stemming from his murder of nine black worshipers in a racist attack on a Charleston, South Carolina church in 2015.
Read moreA man who plunged off a jet bridge in the panic following the January mass shooting at a Fort Lauderdale airport wants to hold United Airlines and its employee liable for the fall.
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A former nursing student who shot and killed seven people at Oikos University in Oakland has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the massacre.
Read moreThe wife of Orlando nightclub massacre gunman Omar Mateen pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of aiding and abetting her husband and obstruction of justice.
Read moreVictims of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando filed a lawsuit in Florida federal court, claiming the shooter’s wife and his employer stood by idly as he showed ever more alarming signs that he was planning a terrorist attack.
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A French police official says a high school principal and two others have been shot by a 17-year-old student, and authorities believe there is no reason to suspect the attack is related to terror.
Read moreThe en banc Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons, overturning a panel decision last year that said the ban placed a substantial burden on the right to bear arms.
Read moreA police officer who responded to the 2016 mass shooting in Dallas that killed five of his colleagues last year has sued Facebook, Twitter and Google, accusing their services of conspiring to aid and abet terrorism.
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The man suspected of fatally shooting five people and wounding six others at a Florida airport was ordered held without bond until his trial at a hearing Tuesday that also revealed some new details about the investigation.
Read moreA federal judge formally sentenced Dylann Roof to death on Wednesday, a day after a jury handed the down the sentence for his killing nine black worshippers in a bloodbath at a church in downtown Charleston.
Read moreA federal jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death on Tuesday for the murder of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina church in 2015.
Read moreConvicted Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof addressed the jury that will begin weighing whether to give him the death penalty Tuesday saying, “from what I’ve been told, I have the right to ask you to give me a life sentence, but I’m not sure what good that would do anyway.”
Read moreThe Iraq War veteran accused of killing five people at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday had undergone a mental health evaluation two months ago after telling an FBI office in Alaska that his mind was being controlled by a U.S. intelligence agency, the FBI said.
Read moreDylann Roof is so consumed by his white supremacist beliefs that he even wore shoes to court this week that had racist symbols drawn on them, an FBI agent testified Friday.
Read moreAt least five people were killed and another 8 wounded in a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in South Florida Friday afternoon.
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The sentencing trial of Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof stalled briefly Thursday morning after he filed a motion objecting to the number of witnesses testifying and one his former defense attorneys tried to intervene in the case.
Read moreFederal prosecutors opened the penalty phase of Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof’s trial on Wednesday by reading from a journal entry he wrote after his arrest in which he brazenly stated, “I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”
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