A would-be mother was killed in a shooting Friday night in North Philadelphia that also left a man very seriously wounded, police said. Medical workers performed an emergency cesarean delivery on the woman, who was six months pregnant, but the baby did not survive, police said. The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. near North Ninth and West York streets….

A father who police say fabricated a story of a robbery and home invasion after his 4-year-old son accidentally shot himself in the head in their North Philadelphia home faces involuntary manslaughter charges.

One person is dead and three others were injured after a shooting in Ottawa. Police are still searching for the suspect.

Three people — one of whom was in a motorized wheelchair — were shot on Christmas Eve in broad daylight in Southeast D.C. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports they are all expected to survive.

A Spring Valley man who posted graphic videos online of himself pointing assault rifles at unknowing pedestrians from a room in the Sofia Hotel in Downtown San Diego is now in police custody on felony weapons charges. Steve Andrew Homoki, 30, was booked into jail on Dec 5, hours after San Diego Police Department investigators seized 14 registered firearms, including…

Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg unveiled a gun control policy on Thursday just steps from the site of one of Colorado’s worst mass shootings, calling for a ban on all assault weapons, mandatory permits for gun purchasers and a new position in the White House to coordinate gun violence prevention.

Since the start of the year, nearly a dozen young people have died due to violence in Washington. Anacostia High School students rallied on Friday to demand city officials do more to protect their classmates.

Two men were fatally shot early Saturday at a South Carolina sports bar and eight other people were wounded in the gunfire, authorities said. A suspect was being sought. The shooting occurred in Lancaster, a community about 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of Charlotte, North Carolina. Coroner Karla Deese told news outlets that the dead have been identified as Henry...

Authorities in Seattle say gunfire at a light-rail station has killed one person and wounded two others, and that police are searching for suspects. The Seattle Times reports that the shooting happened on the northbound tunnel platform of the Westlake station at about 9:20 p.m. Friday. The newspaper quotes a witness as saying a shooter wearing a dark hoodie yelled,...

A total of 25 people were shot in a span of less than four hours on Sunday morning in Chicago, and police are scrambling to increase patrols to address the spasm of violence.

Almost three months after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a handgun found under a pillow, 4-year-old Na’vaun Jackson is back at his Oakland home.

A group of high school students in Kensington, Maryland, are working to create a yearbook to memorialize high school shooting victims from across the country.

Some local high school students are putting together a yearbook to make sure that school shooting victims aren’t forgotten. The “Yearbook of the Fallen” is for the students who never saw their senior prom, graduation or got to write one last “have a great summer” inside the pages of their own. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

The Minnesota Legislature braced Wednesday for its first hearing this session on gun control, with testimony scheduled on bills to require universal criminal background checks for gun purchasers and to let families and police ask courts to take guns from people judged to pose a threat to themselves or others. The hearing before the House public safety committee was set...

Authorities say an off-duty Indiana State Police trooper has been shot and wounded by his son at the trooper’s home in northern Indiana. The St. Joseph County prosecutor’s office says the trooper was shot late Thursday in Granger and was taken to a hospital in semi-stable condition with a single gunshot wound. The prosecutor’s office says the trooper’s son, who...

A man who was charged Sunday with killing a Milwaukee officer during a drug raid on his home told investigators that he didn’t realize it was police trying to break down his door, authorities said. Jordan P. Fricke, 26, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide and other crimes in the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Officer Matthew Rittner, who was part...

A prosecutor says he plans to seek the death penalty for a man arrested in the fatal shootings of five women at a Florida bank last month. State Attorney Brian Haas said at a news conference Friday that he had reached the “unquestionable conclusion” that he should seek the death penalty against 21-year-old Zephen Xaver. Haas also said a grand...

A 13-year-old Ohio boy who stole a handgun from his grandfather’s gun cabinet and fatally shot his 11-year-old brother has been sentenced to seven years in a youth prison. The Record-Courier reports a judge in northeast Ohio’s Portage County on Friday decided not to classify the 13-year-old as a serious youthful offender, which means he can’t be sent to adult...

NBC’s “This Is Us” cast and crew are among the many commemorating last weekend’s mass shooting in Pittsburgh, which is also where the show is set. Eleven people were killed and four police officers injured when a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire on the city’s Tree of Life Synagogue congregation during its Sabbath services on Sat., Oct....