U.S. Gunmaker, Shop Settle with Sniper Victims
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The company that made the Bushmaster  rifle used in the Washington-area sniper killings and a gun  shop that lost track of the firearm agreed to pay $2.5 million  to victims in what lawyers said on Thursday was an  unprecedented settlement.
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The U.S. government has agreed to settle  a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust  survivors over a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property  seized by the U.S. Army at the end of World War II, lawyers  said on Monday.
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The US Department of Labor announced Wednesday that it had reached a $1.9 million settlement with a contractor for Target Corp. after finding that the contractor had not paid overtime
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A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement involving Holocaust victims, their relatives and an Italian insurance company that ends a lawsuit brought a decade ago.
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Victims of explosions in Slovakia rise to three    PRAGUE, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The number of victims who died in Friday's explosions in an ammunition storage facility of the Slovak Military Repairs Company rose to three, Slovak Defense Ministry spokesman Vladimir Gemela said on Saturday.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Nov. 18 -- The Illinois Supreme Court threw out two lawsuits accusing gunmakers of knowingly letting weapons fall into the hands of gang members and other criminals, in a ruling Thursday that the manufacturers cannot legally be blamed for street violence.
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LOS ANGELES  - The request: Someone in the U.S. wanted to ship guns to Abu Dhabi. True, they were Hollywood prop guns, but with Abu Dhabi smack dab in the middle of the Middle East, such a request might raise some eyebrows.
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The killing of 17 Iraqis by Blackwater contractors puts the spotlight on private security companies. Who are these guns for hire, and who pays when they mess up?
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday began offering tens of thousands of dollars in payments to the victims of the Sept. 16 shootings in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide security guards, according to relatives and U.S. officials.
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The department store where a teen gunman went on a rampage will reopen Thursday, about two weeks after the shootings, company officials said.
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Lee Boyd Malvo struck a deal Tuesday in which he avoided the death penalty and was sentenced instead to life without parole for a second of the 10 sniper slayings that terrorized the Washington area in October 2002.
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When her son was shot and killed in 2002, Sarah Dillon got a button that read &quot;Billy Gene Dillon is a very important person&quot; and vowed to wear it until a suspect was found. That button was still clasped above her heart Friday after Dillon learned that Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo reportedly told authorities that he and his one-time mentor were responsible for her son&#039;s death and three other unsolved shootings.
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MONTREAL (CP) - The widows of two pilots killed in a fiery 1998 plane crash north of the city have reached a cash settlement with the plane's manufacturers.
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DANAO CITY, Philippines  - With the whiff of elections in the air, the gunsmiths of Danao City are working overtime to meet demand for their signature .38-caliber revolvers.
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he United States Department of Labor announced yesterday that it had reached a $1.9 million settlement with a contractor for the Target Corporation after finding that the contractor had
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The US government has reached a settlement with Holocaust survivors over claims that US Army officers plundered a trainload of family treasures that had been seized by Nazis, both sides told a judge Monday.
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A ban on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons in the United States ends on Monday having been fatally wounded in the crossfire of the US presidential election.