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A nationwide Amber Alert has been issued for a 14-year-old Georgia girl kidnapped by two gunmen who shot the family dog during a home invasion robbery, police said.
Here are some of the stories we're following Wednesday at NBC News:Woman shot in head, hand during Navy Yard rampage returns homeA survivor of the massacre at the Washington Navy Yard has been released from the hospital after being shot in her head and hand by Aaron Alexis.
RIDGELAND, Miss. -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal secretary is selling a collection from the early civil rights movement, including handwritten notes by King and a page from his "I Have a Dream" speech, what the auction house calls an unprecedented historical trove.
As attention turns to the aftermath of Colorado’s record floods, people have been warned to stay out of the lingering water because it may contain harmful chemicals and sewage, officials said.
Among the dozen people gunned down at the Washington Navy Yard shooting Monday were mothers, fathers, husbands and wives whose families waited anxiously to hear whether their relatives were among the victims in the deadliest mass shooting since Sandy Hook Elementary School.
A survivor of the deadly rampage at the Washington Navy Yard has been released from hospital -- just a day after being shot in her head and hand by Aaron Alexis.NBC Washington reported that the woman was discharged late Tuesday.
Aaron Alexis, the Washington Navy Yard shooter, rented an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and used it for target practice at a Northern Virginia gun range and store less than two days before his shooting spree, according to the lawyer for the store.J.
President Barack Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of government contractor and employee protections, according to the White House.The move comes in the wake of the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, which raised concerns about security procedures at U.S. military installations.
When President Vladimir Putin recently banned “homosexual propaganda” in Russia, he joined sides in a new global culture war: a struggle to stop the march of gay rights abroad even as advocates wave rainbow flags in America.
NEW YORK — Starbucks says guns are no longer welcome in its cafes, though it is stopping short of an outright ban on firearms.
