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Tracer bullets can help to improve accuracy.

A woman discovered the long snake hiding in her bedroom as it attempted to attack her kitten.

Research suggests that nearly 79 percent of schizophrenia risk is linked to genetics.

Clayman & Rosenberg and its partners gave more than $42,000 in campaign cash to Cyrus Vance, Jr. Several of the firm's clients with cases in front of the Manhattan DA's office avoided prison.

The Massachusetts teacher's husband was arrested and charged after she was found stabbed and strangled inside her home.

Marilou Danley was concerned about Paddock's mental health in the lead up to the horrific shooting, investigators said.

Court documents said the boy cried when he told them he had rolled the pillow on his sister’s legs and then accidentally rolled it onto her face. However, he was unable to move it because it had something zipped inside which made it very heavy.

October 6, 2017, World Smile Day, a celebration of cheerfulness, coined and initiated by commercial artist Harvey Ball. 

The Republican congressman announced Wednesday he would retire at the end of his term, next year; however, Speaker Paul Ryan said Murphy would retire on Oct. 21.

Abby Patterson was last seen in the area where three other women's bodies were found in the past few months.

A mother in Milwaukee has been accused of killing her autistic 4-year-old son by binding the child in belts and setting him on fire in a bathtub at their residence.

Democratic candidate in the Virginia Governor race served as a State Senator from 2008 to 2013. He was elected as Lieutenant Governor on Nov. 5, 2013.

Despite the tragedy that unfolded following the shooting incident, America found its heroes in various people including Matthew Cobos, a soldier in the United States Army, who laid on top of a woman to shield her from the onslaught of bullets. 

Parents expressed outrage at exercise called “Nazi Party Mascot” assigned to their children at Shiloh Middle School as a part of their social studies assignment.

His apology came a day after he received intense criticism for saying he found a woman using sports jargon "funny."

The conservative artist, Sabo, created posters of the host, looking like a young Johnny Depp from the 1990 movie, “Cry-Baby," after Kimmel delivered a heartfelt monologue for the Las Vegas mass shooting victims on his show Monday.

Illegal pills are sometimes delivered to random addresses.

Fourteen school districts are part of the investigation.

A Wyoming man claiming to be from the year 2048 warned of an extraterrestrial invasion this week.

After the Las Vegas massacre, a Columbine victim's father asks why alarms aren't sounded about shooters before they act.

Investigators are looking for a woman who was seen with suspected Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock prior to Sunday's attack.

"I may have very well been the last person to shake hands with that man."

“He’s the best. Racist jokes the whole drive home,” she once wrote.

At least 17 people have died so far from the outbreak.

Rodrigue has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Arizona State University. She graduated in 2014.

Stephen Paddock had apparently booked hotel rooms facing a third music festival.

Stephen Paddock's girlfriend called him a "kind, caring, quiet man."

As many as 2,000 died.

Lombard also represented an accomplice in the 1994 Oklahoma City bombing.