Calif. Man May Get Life for Having Gun
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A man who went to prison two decades ago for setting his 6-year-old son on fire in a custody dispute was found guilty Tuesday of illegally possessing a gun &#151; a conviction that could send him to prison for life.
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A domestic dispute ended in the shooting deaths of three people early Tuesday and wounding of two others, including a sheriff's deputy, authorities said. Police were searching for a man who was believed to have several firearms.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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The spray of bullets that killed a police officer and hurt three others this week came from something increasingly common on this city's streets: a high-powered assault weapon, fast becoming the gun of choice for gang members and violent criminals.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Scott Peterson&#39;s fate could be in hands of a California jury by the end of the day. Yesterday, defense attorney Mark Geragos told jurors Peterson shouldn&#39;t be convicted of killing his
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The man convicted of killing Southern Californiaâs Ryan Francis was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. Louisiana District Judge Richard Moore III also sentenced the killer, 20-year-old DeAnthony Ford, to 10 years for aggravated battery in a shooting two days before the one that killed Francis.Francis, 19, was in Baton Rouge visiting his mother when he was shot and killed while riding in a car on May 13, 2006. Francis was the starting point guard for U.S.C. his freshman year.
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Stephen Jackson was expected Wednesday to admit to criminal recklessness in firing a gun outside a strip club and, if the plea agreement is accepted by a judge, pay a $5,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service.
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If a shooter came into some of the biggest classrooms at the University of California-Berkeley, recent graduate Scott Alto wonders whether students would be able to protect themselves.
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Spurred by the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the Democratic-led House of Representatives is expected to approve a bill to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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KIRKWOOD, Mo., Feb. 8 -- A gunman carrying a grudge against City Hall left a suicide note on his bed warning that "the truth will come out in the end" before he went on a deadly shooting spree at a council meeting, his brother said Friday.
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SAN JOSE, California  - A California official   admitted on Tuesday that state prison guards had bungled last   year's controversial execution of former gang leader Stanley   Williams, but denied that lethal injection constituted cruel   and unusual punishment.
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A man whose lawyer says he can testify that O.J. Simpson asked him to bring guns to a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers told a judge on Monday that he'll accept a plea deal
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A man shot dead by police reportedly threatened someone with a sub-machine gun, a police watchdog says.
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The gunman who killed three people and himself in a shooting rampage last month had small amounts of alcohol, marijuana and lithium in his system at the time of the attack, a toxicology report says.
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When Gov. Ernie Fletcher signed a death warrant for a convicted killer this month, he may have done more than start the clock ticking on an execution. Some say Fletcher, a doctor, may have put his medical license at risk.
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By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 11--If you were to walk around the Inner Harbor firing bullets wildly into the air, would you get a ticket and have your gun handed back the next day?   No way.
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CONFLUENCE, Pa. - A man missed a mouse he was trying to shoot with a small-caliber handgun and wounded his girlfriend instead, state police said.