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Officials at Forbes Regional Hospital in Pennsylvania describe the condition of patients they received from the mass stabbing at Franklin Regional High School.

Wednesday’s mass stabbing at a Pennsylvania high school occurred on the anniversary of one of the bloodiest school knife attacks in U.S. history — a rampage in which a Texas college student injured 14 fellow students.

Most Republican lawmakers say they believe in fair and equal pay for women. But a day after Equal Pay Day, when Republican senators had a chance to vote for a bill that would have gone a long way to achieving that goal, not a single one cast a vote to just allow debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, let alone pass it.

UMass guard Derrick Gordon has come out as the first openly gay Division I basketball player.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett issued a statement regarding the high school stabbing spree at Franklin Regional High School on Wednesday morning:“I was shocked and saddened upon learning of the events that occurred this morning as students arrived at Franklin Regional High School.

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania's Director of Emergency Management, Dan Stevens, tells the media that all victims, as well as the accused stabber, were students at Franklin Regional High School.

The FBI is searching for a sniper in the Kansas City area after a string of 14 frightening highway shootings there in one month. NBC’s John Yang reports.

Lacey Holsworth, the 8-year-old who formed a close bond with Michigan State basketball star Adreian Payne, lost her battle with cancer Wednesday morning.

When workers at Walmart began mobilizing to make changes at the world’s biggest employer—one with the deserved reputation of disrespecting its workers and slapping down any attempt by workers to influence workplace policies—most folks’ initial reaction was “well, good luck with that.”But it wasn’t good luck that brought about some recent workplace changes at Walmart. 

A student at Franklin Regional High School in Pennsylvania described the panic that ensued when a student started stabbing people in the halls."I was walking into the school and a stampede of people were running after me," said Kari Lee. "They were screaming, 'Go to your cars!