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A man was taken to the hospital after police responded to two shootings around the same time in Lynn, Massachusetts Tuesday night. Police received several calls for gunshots in the area of East Highland Street just after 11 p.m. Shortly after, an officer was flagged down by a driver with the victim on Eastern Avenue. An 18 year-old man was in...

Police received several calls for gunshots in the area of East Highland Street just after 11 p.m. Shortly after, an officer was flagged down by a driver with the victim on Eastern Avenue. An 18 year-old man was in the car with several gunshot wounds to his legs. He was taken to Mass. General Hospital.

Eight people were hurt in three separate shootings in Boston over a span of 24 hours, according to authorities. The latest shooting happened after midnight Monday on Jette Court in Brighton. Three men were taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Several hours earlier, two people were shot in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood, Boston Police said. Investigators found multiple shell…

Eight people were hurt in three separate shootings in Boston over the past 24 hours.

After someone attempted to kill Monica Cannon-Grant’s son, she quit nursing school, became an activist and started Violence in Boston Inc. to help victims of violence. Last week, the organization opened its first physical space to provide free legal and mental health assistance, a food pantry and other services for victims and families in need.

A private security guard working for a TV station was in custody Saturday after a person died from a shooting that took place during dueling protests in downtown Denver

Recent shootings of police officers and protests that have left scores of officers injured are stark reminders of the dangers facing law enforcement as the country grapples with police killings of African Americans.

Police opened fire at suspects as they ran from the scene of a shooting in Roxbury that put a man in the hospital with life-threatening injuries overnight.

Shootings are up by more than 20% in Boston this year and more than 15% over the five-year average through the same period last year, according to police data. An impassioned Mayor Marty Walsh addressed the violence Thursday, spurred by this week’s shooting of an immigrant convenience store clerk during a robbery in Roxbury and the fatal shooting of a…

A security force member was injured during an active shooting Thursday morning at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.

Protesters marched through the Satilla Shores neighborhood of Brunswick, Georgia Tuesday, demanding justice for an unarmed black man shot to death while jogging. Demonstrators carried signs chanting “I run with Maud” as they demanded justice for 25-year old Ahmaud Arbery.

A mass shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Company headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the latest on a list of deadly shootings that have rocked the country. Here are some deadly mass shootings over the past few years.

A suspected far-right extremist has killed at least nine people in separate attacks on two hookah bars in western Germany before killing his mother and himself. Prosecutors say they are treating the case as domestic terrorism.

A school officer and a student were injured at Wisoonsin’s Oshkosh West High School Tuesday morning, when the student was shot after attempting to stab the office with a sharp object. The shooting comes just one day after a school resource officer at Waukesha South High School shot a 17-year-old armed student who refused to drop his weapon.

Officials will beef up security as usual for the ceremony to remember those lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor 78 years ago, with service members and dignitaries confronting a fresh tragedy after a U.S. sailor killed two civilians, wounded another and then turned the gun on himself at the storied military base. The National Park Service, which is hosting…

A Navy sailor shot three civilians, killing two of them, before taking his own life at Pearl Harbor just days before thousands were scheduled to gather at the storied military base to mark the 78th anniversary of the Japanese bombing that launched the U.S. into World War II. Rear Adm. Robert Chadwick, the commander of Navy Region Hawaii, said...

Two people were killed and one was injured before a gunman killed himself in a shooting at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii Wednesday.

Police in Fitchburg, Massachusetts are investigating two reported shootings that happened within 30 minutes.

Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker will stop in Boston Friday afternoon, outlining how he plans to prevent gun violence if elected. The New Jersey senator’s visit to Boston comes after 17 shootings in five days.

Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker will stop in Boston Friday afternoon, outlining how he plans to prevent gun violence if elected. The New Jersey senator’s visit to Boston comes after 17 shootings in five days.