Shooting in Perry, Iowa: Sixth Grader Killed and 5 Injured at High School
A gunman killed a sixth-grade student and injured five other people at a high school in Perry, Iowa, early Thursday morning just as students were arriving back to school after their winter break. Four of the injured were students, and one was an administrator, Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, […]
He Killed His Molester as a Teenager. Should He Be Spared Deportation?
Marco Flores was months away from finishing his prison sentence when an immigration agent showed up last spring at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, west of Boston, and handed him a sheaf of papers. The documents confirmed what he had long feared: Upon his release, the U.S. government planned to deport him to his native […]
Czech University Shooting: At Least 15 Are Killed in Prague Rampage
At least 15 people were killed during a shooting rampage in the Czech Republic on Thursday, including 14 people at Charles University in Prague and the suspect’s father, the authorities said. Twenty-four other people were wounded at the university. The gunman, a 24-year-old student in world history at Charles University, also killed himself after the […]
Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Killed at Historic Pace
More women and children have been reported killed in Gaza in less than two months than the roughly 7,700 civilians documented as killed by U.S. forces and their international allies in the entire first year of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to estimates from Iraq Body Count, an independent British research group. And […]