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U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 10:56am neoform

www.kptv.com -- The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office has launched an investigation into allegations that a local corrections deputy bragged about using a Taser gun on people in an Internet chat room. FOX 12’s news partner, the Portland Tribune, was the first to b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A customer at an Arby's wrestled a gun away from a prison inmate Monday, about an hour after the escapee used it to kill a corrections officer during a medical appointment, authorities said. Curtis Allgier, whose heavily tattooed face has a swastika an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 24, 2007 @ 12:09pm neoform

FOX News -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested Saturday at a demonstration outside a south suburban gun shop and charged with one count of criminal trespass to property. Jackson was arrested when he refused to move away from the entrance to Chuck's Gun Shop in Ri.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 10:18pm neoform

FOX News -- A man who doused himself with gasoline then caught on fire after police fired a Taser stun gun at him died from his injuries Tuesday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Juan Flores Lopez, 47, was hospitalized after the confrontation with officers in his yard.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:40am neoform

FOX News -- A former Navy lieutenant living in northwestern Wisconsin has been illegally selling military equipment, including laser gun sights, and hoarding automatic weapons, federal prosecutors said. Federal agents and police discovered more than 65 machine gun.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

FOX News -- It was just a little stun gun fun, but a police officer who demonstrated his Taser by zapping a willing subject in the genitals has drawn a warning from his bosses. Officer Randy Reynolds ran into trouble when video of the incident last spring was post.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

FOX News -- More than 200 firearms enthusiasts — most of them openly armed — packed a normally sedate government building Thursday night, hoping to win a pistol or rifle and at the same time send a defiant message to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and othe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 11:17pm neoform

MSNBC -- Phil Spector stepped out of his mansion with a gun in his hand at 5 a.m. four years ago and said, “I think I killed somebody,” a chauffeur testified Tuesday in the record producer’s trial on charges of murdering an actress. It was the first time.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 2:04pm neoform

CNN -- A young man shot himself without using a gun. Damion M. Mosher, who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings, was hit in the abdomen by one of the shots, authorities said. Warren County deputies said they.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 7:41am neoform

Washington Post -- Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell is warning New York to stop, by the summer, sending private agents into Virginia to look for illegal gun sales, saying that the agents could face legal action. Because of a Virginia law that goes into effect in July.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

ABC News -- This past Tuesday the governor of Virginia announced he would close the loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people — and himself — on the Virginia Tech campus. OK, it's a good idea to keep guns out of the hands of pe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 8:39am neoform

www.newschannel5.com -- Some people in a Nashville neighborhood are furious over a new rule that makes it illegal to own a gun. Residents in Nashboro Village said it's unconstitutional and leaves them defenseless. Two weeks ago, residents received a letter from their home.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

FOX News -- Amid the Confederate flags, anti-Yankee bumper stickers and Civil War relics on display at Bob Moates Sport Shop, a counterattack against the North is under way. "Ask about the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway" reads a sign taped to the gun shop's register, beck.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 10:00am mrmdc

ABC News -- A man fatally shot his 8-month old daughter and gravely wounded his 3-year-old son before turning the gun on himself, police said. Police spokesman David Tull said officers found Hector Rolondo Medina in the front yard of a home shortly after 6:30 p.m... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 6:32pm neoform

SF Gate -- An Albany father used a 100,000-volt stun gun on his 18-month-old son, police said Monday. Rian Whittman, 23, has been accused of assault and criminal mistreatment. Police said he used it "multiple times" over three weeks. A police spokesman said there.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 3:12pm neoform

Mercury News -- Repeated vandalism at the Islamic Center of the East Bay over the past two years has some local Muslims concerned... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 21, 2006 @ 10:20am mrmdc

Los Angeles Times -- The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 16, 2006 @ 9:24am mrmdc

Mercury News -- A camera phone captured a UCLA student being shot with a stun gun by a police officer after he allegedly refused repeated requests to show his student identification and would not leave a campus library, university police said Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- A robber's clumsy pursuit of cash left him staring at the barrel of his own shotgun after he set it on the convenience store counter and the clerk snatched it up, officials said. A surveillance video captured the man in sunglasses and a hooded sweat sh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A 7-year-old boy fatally shot an 8-year-old cousin while they were playing with an illegal, unregistered gun at home in Boston, authorities said. Police were still searching for the child and his mother following the Sunday night shooting of LaQuarrie.. Read More