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Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice

The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a life, says an expert in the field. ...

This undated photo provided by the Nassau County Police Department shows Dalton Smith of Hempstead, N.Y. On Saturday, May 18, 2013, police identified Smith the alleged home invader involved in the fatal slaying of a New York college student early Friday morning. Police say that Smith, who was currently on parole for robbery in the first degree, was the person attempting to rob the off-campus home where Andrea Rebello was shot and killed. (AP Photo/Nassau County Police Department)

Authorities: US student was killed by police

A New York college student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to a report of the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head Friday ...

In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)

Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

A Hofstra University student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Junior public relations major Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head early ...

Child accused of firing BB gun at school bus

A Fairburn child has been accused of shooting a BB gun at a school bus south of Atlanta. CBS Atlanta reported (http://bit.ly/11IlK7K ) that the shooting happened May 10, as the bus was headed North on Highway 29. Police say a silver-colored Kia Sorento pulled up alongside the bus and ...

Weld County, Colo., Sheriff John Cooke, left, with El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, center right, and other sheriffs standing behind him, speaks during a news conference at which he announced that 54 Colorado sheriffs are filing a federal civil lawsuit against two gun control bills passed by the Colorado Legislature, in Denver, Friday, May 17 2013. Among other claims, the group of sheriffs and others joining the suit argue that the laws violate the 2nd and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions

Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional. The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado's 64 counties, most representing rural, gun-friendly areas of the state. The sheriffs say the new state laws ...

Mass. US Senate hopefuls spar over gun control ad

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Gabriel Gomez defended his stance on gun control Friday and lashed out at Democratic nominee and veteran Congressman Edward Markey for alluding to the Connecticut school massacre in a TV campaign ad that criticized Gomez on the gun issue. The Markey ad uses excerpts of Gomez ...

Father of Illinois school shooter gets probation

The father of a central Illinois teenager who pulled a gun in his class and fired shots into the ceiling has admitted giving the boy the weapon. Forty-three-year-old Rodney Kinder pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawful delivery of a firearm to a minor. He was given two months of probation. The ...

OR attorney general opposes Kinkel appeal

Oregon's attorney general's office is opposing an appeal from Kip Kinkel who killed his parents and two high school students in 1998 in Springfield. A response filed in Marion County Circuit Court says Kinkel has exhausted his appeals and it's too late to overturn his 112-year sentence. The Oregonian reports ...

Officer kills Ohio motorist during traffic stop

The University of Akron says an officer fatally shot a 64-year-old man during a traffic stop after he produced what later was determined to be a BB pistol. The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man shot at about 11 a.m. Thursday as James Genda of Akron. University spokeswoman ...

Advocacy group, Newtown families criticize Ayotte

Two men who lost relatives in last year's shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school urged New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Thursday to change her position on a gun control measure that would expand background checks. Neil Heslin and Gilles Rousseau spoke at a news conference held by advocacy ...

State Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, whose violence-awareness measure was approved by the Senate, talks with seat mate Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, May 16, 2013.  Calderon's SB552, which would allow school districts to include violence-awareness and prevention lessons as part of social science classes for students in grades 7 through 12, was passed by a 29-7 bipartisan vote and sent to the Assembly. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Bill promotes violence-awareness in Calif. schools

The state Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would require education officials to create lesson plans about violence in American culture — the Legislature's latest reaction to mass shootings last year elsewhere in the nation. Under SB552, individual schools could decide whether to include the lessons in curriculum. The ...

FILE--In this photo taken on Dec. 14, 2012, Alissa Parker grieves with her husband, Robbie, as they leave the firehouse staging area after receiving word that their daughter was one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown, Conn. The moment Alissa Parker learned of a shooting at her daughter's school, she suddenly regretted not pointing out what she had seen as security gaps at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was among 20 first-graders killed in the Dec. 14 massacre, had thought security could have been tighter, although she never could have guessed it would be tested by a gunman with a military-style, semi-automatic rifle. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Newtown parents seek more focus on school security

The moment Alissa Parker learned of a shooting at her daughter's school, she suddenly regretted not pointing out what she had seen as security gaps at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was among 20 first-graders killed in the Dec. 14 massacre, had thought security could have ...

Conn. lawmakers seek federal funds for Newtown

Members of Connecticut's congressional delegation announced plans Thursday to try to secure federal funds to help Newtown build a new elementary school after last year's massacre — and they say senators owe the residents after failing to support legislation that would have expanded background checks for certain gun purchases. U.S. ...

Families arrive at the school after a man committed suicide at a private Catholic school in central Paris by shooting himself in the head, Thursday, May, 16, 2013. The shooting took place shortly before noon as children were leaving the school premises for the lunch break, according to two police officials. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe's office said in a statement that a dozen children witnessed the shooting.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Man shoots himself in head at Paris school

A dozen students and a teacher saw a man kill himself with a shot in the head at a private Catholic school on Thursday, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe said. The mayor said his thoughts were with "all the little Parisians who were present, their parents and all the educational community." ...

Ohio student's condition upgraded after shooting

The condition of a 17-year-old high school student has improved, more than two weeks after he was hospitalized with a gunshot wound self-inflicted in a Cincinnati area classroom. A University of Cincinnati Medical Center spokeswoman says his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. She said Thursday that medical ...

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