As we were clearing the rooms, we came across a classroom which I thought at first was an art room because I saw a lot of red paint all over the walls and in the far left corner I thought I observed a pile of dirty laundry. … As I continued to stare at the room not being able to figure out what I was looking at, I realized that the red paint was actually blood and the pile of dirty laundry were actually dead bodies. Carlo Guerra, state trooper. Newtown.

A 44-year-old Fort Worth man accused of shooting at his neighbors was arrested Monday night after a standoff with SWAT and other law enforcement officers, police said.

Officers were dispatched to the 4500 block of Glacier Street, in south Fort Worth, shortly after 5 p.m. regarding a shots fired call. The man had fired at his neighbors and then barricaded himself inside his house, according to police.

SWAT team members arrived and extracted him from the home, according to officials. The suspect, ... was arrested and booked into the Fort Worth City Jail around 11 p.m.

(He) faces charges of deadly conduct/discharging a firearm in direction of individual(s), evading arrest/detention, and discharging a firearm in certain municipalities.

No one was injured in the shooting or the standoff, police said.

Few political groups in U.S. history have seen a collapse as swift and dramatic as the National Rifle Association.

Over the last several years, the NRA has experienced a public implosion, as the group loses members and revenue amid serious accusations of mismanagement and corruption. And according to the latest NRA tax returns obtained by The Daily Beast, the reputational and organizational damage is rolling on with seemingly no end in sight.....

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Multiple people were injured Saturday during what authorities described as “an active shooting” at a shopping mall in central Florida.

The Ocala Police Department said they were responding to “an active shooting” at the Paddock Mall in Ocala, located about 80 miles northwest of Orlando.

The police department later said on social media that the suspect had fled and that the mall was being evacuated.

A man was holding his 1-year-old son and eating Sunday night when a bullet fired outdoors hurtled through a Mesquite house, grazed the father’s neck and ricocheted off the back side of the boy’s head, police said.

The man and toddler suffered minor wounds, Mesquite police said.

The victims were shot about 7 p.m. on New Year’s Eve when an assailant who was driving a car stopped, got out and fired upon another vehicle in the 1600 block of Springwood Drive, according to a surveillance camera video recording.

Police found the targeted vehicle on an adjacent street. Its driver suffered injuries when the car’s glass was struck by gunfire.

Police had not announced an arrest as of Tuesday.