Woman shoots self in head with Police Officer's Gun in South Carolina Hospital

Columbia, SC -  A very sad incident occurred last night in the Palmetto State.  A woman removed a gun from a Department of Corrections officer and shot herself in the head.  The police were at Palmetto Health Hospital in Columbia with an inmate who needed...

Man shoots himself, scratching his back with gun

Talk about late-night silliness.A Fort Worth man had an itch he had to scratch and used his hand-gun to relieve himself.  An accidental shooting took care of the itch and brought in the cops as well."Jorge...

Webcam Your Way into Velvet Revolver

Aspiring bedroom rockers' hearts must be racing after Slash suggested that the Velvet Revolver boys might build a website to audition wannabe Scott Weiland replacements.So break out the angsty grunge growls, boys...

Reporter carries knife and toy gun on to plane unchallenged

" JUST 24 hours after two pilots were stabbed in their cockpit over Christchurch, I boarded a plane at our largest airport with a knife and a fake revolver Nervously arriving at Auckland Airport yesterday for the 10.30am Air New Zealand flight to Napier, I expected to...

Local reporter shot dead in Northern Mexico

"A local reporter, who covered agriculture and occasionally crime in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, was shot dead on Saturday night. Gerardo Israel García Pimentel, who wrote for the daily La Opinión...

Paranoid About Neighborhood Kids, MASS man kills family, then himself on RR t...

"Neighbors knew Robert McDermott as a man who believed neighborhood children were plotting to gang up on him. He hid in the bushes with a camera to catalog their identities, they say. He also had a volatile relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, with whom he...

"Bad Job Review" Motivated NASA Gunman, Say Police

"The gunman who killed a hostage and himself in a stand-off at a Nasa centre in Texas blamed his victim for a poor work performance review, police said. William Phillips, 60, took a revolver to work at the Johnson Space Center on Friday and shot dead fellow employee David...

Wisconsin Teen Who Shot Principal: "I Freaked Out"

We've faced a week of reflection, dealing with the results of high-profile murder-suicides; what do we do with the shooters who survive?  "A teenager accused of gunning down his principal told detectives in a videotaped interview that he didn't mean to kill him but...

Prostitution ring run by illegals, for illegals

Feds say brothels in Texas, Oklahoma, placed women in 'indentured servitude'.

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