Spartan Echo

  MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities say a man opened fire while attempting to rob a gun store in a southwestern Russian town, killing at least six people before fleeing. Officials said Monday, Apr. 22, that the man, Sergei Pomyazun, opened fire in the store, killing four employees. Pomyazun then started shooting on the street outside, killing a [...]

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed at the campus outside Boston, authorities said early Friday. No arrests had been made, and a manhunt was on for the shooter. The officer was responding to report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple times, [...]

  CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The 18-year-old man suspected of shooting and wounding two women at a community college in Virginia is scheduled to make his first court appearance. Neil Allan MacInnis is due in Montgomery County General District Court on Monday. He is being arraigned on four felony charges related to the shooting incident [...]

  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — New questions are confronting the university that Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes attended amid disclosures that a psychiatrist warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts. Court documents made public Thursday cited Dr. Lynne Fenton, a psychiatrist at the University [...]

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Police in northeast Ohio are investigating a shooting outside a church that left one man dead after an Easter service. A member of the Hiawatha Church of God in Christ said the man was shot soon after Easter services ended, around 1:15 p.m. Sunday. Joan Crockett said the man knew the [...]

    CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — After a week of legal twists and turns, James Holmes will find out Monday if he could face execution if convicted in the Colorado theater attack that killed 12 people. Behind-the-scenes maneuvering erupted into a public quarrel between prosecutors and the defense over Holmes’ public offer to plead guilty, [...]

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Newly released search warrants in the Newtown school shooting have revealed that gunman Adam Lanza’s home was packed with weapons and ammunition, but the documents do not shed any new light on what could have driven him to massacre 20 children and six educators inside an elementary school. [...]

  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former basketball standout and two other young men will serve nearly three decades behind bars for killing a high school drug dealer. Media outlets report that 19-year-old former Atlee High School star Kevin Drayton, 19-year-old Da’Von Byars and 20-year-old Xavia Highsmith were sentenced Monday, Feb. 18, in Hanover Circuit Court. [...]

  NEW YORK (AP) — The author of the children’s classic “Sarah, Plain and Tall” is teaming up with an acclaimed illustrator for a tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook school shootings. Random House Children’s Books announced Monday that it will publish the picture story “Snowflakes Fall,” by Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan [...]