Cops: Loaded Gun Hid in Child's Bag: 3 Suspects Allegedly Tried to Conceal .357 Magnum in 8-Year-Old's Backpack Before Arrest
520454
By Danielle Furfaro, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  May 31--SCHENECTADY -- Three adults were arrested for allegedly trying to stash a loaded handgun in a backpack worn by an 8-year-old boy, police said Wednesday.
329667
An American woman with ties to the U.S. Embassy was detained at the La Paz airport for attempting to enter Bolivia with 500 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition, officials said Thursday. Donna Thi, 20, was taken into custody by Bolivian immigration officials Wednesday night.
13473
An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman's house denies buying drugs there, authorities say. Undercover officers raiding the 88-year-old woman's house shot her to death after she fired on them while they broke down her door in a high-crime neighborhood. Federal prosecutors will investigate the case, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington has announced.
723376
PERUGIA, Italy (BBC News) - The American flatmate of murdered Briton Meredith Kercher has claimed she covered her ears as the British student screamed, Italian police have said. Amanda Knox, 20, has given a partial confession, but keeps changing her story, police in Perugia say. Knox, her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 24, and Congolese immigrant Patrick Lumumba, 37, are all being questioned about the murder.  Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was found with her throat cut.  The police chief said all three suspects would go before a judge on Thursday to be formally arrested.
90949
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Guns and poisonous materials are more likely to be improperly stored in homes where young children are only visitors, says a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.
640308
COLUMBUS, Miss. - It wasn't tough for police to thwart two would-be Grinches - they just followed the telltale trail of wrapping paper.  Two unidentified boys, ages 14 and 12, were charged with burglary after they were accused of stealing Christmas presents from a family home, police said.
643127
Boston police questioned a 7-year-old boy on Tuesday who shot and killed his 8-year-old cousin with an illegal gun, the latest example of the toll of gun violence in U.S. cities.
527065
By Mark Agee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 21--WATAUGA -- A third suspect in a GameStop robbery this month surrendered to police Tuesday, making another dent in a ring of up to 20 teenagers that police believe committed a string of robberies in Tarrant County.
423133
NEW YORK - Margaret Johnson might have looked like an easy target. But when a mugger tried to grab a chain off her neck Friday, the wheelchair-bound 56-year-old pulled out her licensed .357 pistol and shot him, police said.
272594
Gabe: You might have seen this story on CNN about the teens that murdered a homeless guy and then equated it to the sort of thrill one might get from a violent video game. There will be plenty of articles focusing on these kids and their crime. I"d like to take a second and talk about the parents of these teenagers instead. It is the job of a parent to teach their children certain rules. Obviously the rules themselves and the emphasis each family places on them will vary, but there are certain universal constants that these parents obviously failed to pass on.
336411
Girls: you may have one tucked secretly  in your handbag. Boys: you may have stumbled on a stack of them  in your girlfriend's closet. Go ahead. Don't be shy.
79643
A teacher police believe was the target of a shooting rampage that killed her mother and a school colleague had planned to seek a restraining order against the suspect that day, court records show.
400452
By Donovan Slack and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | October 27, 2004. Two officers who fired pepper-pellet guns near where a 21-year-old college student was fatally shot last week were not trained to use the
640612
Two schools were evacuated Wednesday after a gunman claiming to have a bomb opened fire and took hostages at a high school near Bailey, Colorado, officials said. Several shots were fired at the school, and the gunman is inside, said a Jefferson County Sheriff's spokeswoman.
65794
A pregnant Marine missing from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, was the victim of a crime and was to testify about it, the Onslow County sheriff told CNN affiliates. A search is under way for 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, who has been missing from Camp Lejeune since December 14.
626692
Gabe: 0:05  The shit about Ian and Matt. Basically Matt made some comments at work about shooting people in the face and he got fired. Then he referenced the incedent in his journal comic and the cops showed up at his house.
447979
By Rusty Marks  rustymarks@wvgazette.com  Tuesday was a bad day to make methamphetamine.  A countywide drug sweep sent at least three people to jail on drug charges.