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Former acquaintances and social-media postings have begun to paint the picture of Christopher Harper Mercer as a withdrawn young man.
A Vatican spokesman distanced the pontiff from the Kentucky clerk's case, saying Francis met with "several dozen" people at the Vatican's embassy.
Doctors were operating on a young victim of the Oregon community college shooting rampage after a bullet lodged near her spine, her mother told NBC News.
The sheriff overseeing the investigation of an Oregon college shooting has been vocal in opposing state and federal gun-control legislation.
Two communities have approached the artificial turf debate in very different ways.
Hurricane Joaquin will be heading north as a second weather pattern threatens to bring historic flooding to eastern states.
Mike Flowers is retiring after a 35-year career as a police officer without ever having taken a sick day.
The Outer Banks of North Carolina are under mandatory evacuation order, with ferries working through the night. Jonathan Rodriguez of WNCN reports.
Joaquin roared through sparsely populated islands of the eastern Bahamas on Thursday, packing sustained winds of 130 mph.
A Connecticut high school has outlawed "grinding and other forms of inappropriate dancing and touching" at Saturday's homecoming dance.
