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The records that emerged Tuesday add up to at least three missed opportunities that might have offered law enforcement a way to stop the shooter from having access to guns long ago.

Former President Barack Obama is to appear for jury duty in downtown Chicago.

Man convicted of killing two people in 1991 becomes 3rd inmate executed in Florida since state in August resumed carrying out the death penalty after a hiatus.

Though Democrats control a cluster of state governments in the Northeast, Republicans control state legislatures across the entire South, all but one state in the Midwest and the vast majority of the mountain West.

From an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater to Sunday's massacre at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, mass shooters have amassed their arsenals by exploiting lapses in the background check process and limited weapons laws.

The massacre appeared to stem from a domestic situation and was not racially or religiously motivated, an official said.

An 84-year-old doctor who has cared for patients in this tiny New Hampshire town for nearly 30 years is going to court in the hopes of winning back her license.

Among the 26 people killed in an attack at a small South Texas church were tight-knit neighbors and family members, ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old.

Slow the sands of time, reverse the second hand, pause the pendulum _ standard time is returning again.

U.S. authorities have released a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was detained after undergoing surgery last month and placed in a facility for unaccompanied immigrant minors.

A militant in Libya accused of playing an instrumental role in the Benghazi attacks is scheduled to appear Friday in federal court in Washington.

A Florida couple got an extra treat on Halloween _ a baby Frankenstein.

Ex-middle school football coach convicted of raping and killing 10-year-old Missouri girl he kidnapped in front of horrified witnesses.

Allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein have led to a cascade of harassment allegations against other entertainment industry figures, including actors Jeremy Piven and Kevin Spacey.

Police say a shooting inside a suburban Denver Walmart is not an "active shooter" situation.

Eight people were killed and 11 seriously injured in a Halloween afternoon attack that the mayor called "a particularly cowardly act of terror."

Police in suburban Denver say they are responding to a shooting at a Walmart with "multiple parties down."

Prosecutors presented evidence that the wounds to the troops who searched for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who faces up to life in prison, merit stiff punishment.

As time goes on, new details emerge in the women's account, and other details change.

A Connecticut college student has been charged with smearing body fluids on her roommate's belongings.