Shortly after the massacre at Columbine High School, a question popped into Peter Langman’s mind: What would possess a child to pick up a gun, take it to school and mow down his classmates?

The gunman said into the phone, “We have three foreigners, including women.” The response was plain and brutal: “Kill them,” the man said. Gunshots rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by a round of cheering.

Robert Mulligan, who directed the classic film “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has died at 83.

Police in the southern Australian city of Melbourne fatally shot a 15-year-old boy in a skate park after officers said he threatened them with knives.

Kill the LT-Mexico-Plane-Border Officials story. The governor’s office is retracting statement that four died in crash; now saying search continuing for plane.

The head of New Mexico’s Game and Fish Department could lose his hunting license for two years after he was accused of illegally shooting a deer on private land.

Federal authorities say a central Florida construction company owner tried to hire a hit man to kill an IRS agent to avoid paying $300,000 in taxes.

A south Alabama town that was the inspiration for the setting in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird” is finding itself as the backdrop for a real-life legal case involving allegations of racism at school.The parents of several black junior high...

Hundreds of protesters chanting “Kill, kill” set fire Monday to an Indonesian mosque belonging to a Muslim sect they claim is heretical, police said.A policeman was wounded in the head when the crowd stoned the mosque in West Java province before...

State and federal officials said Monday they were investigating the death of thousands of game fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta after a federal agency drained the water around a protected island during a levee repair.Masses of fish could be seen..