The shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday was the deadliest attack at a domestic military installation since November 2009. The stories of the 12 who were gunned down and a police officer who survived are told here.
Nation and World
A Spanish city is seeking a missing millionaire. Somebody bought a lottery ticket in the northern city of La Coruna that won 4.7 million euros — but lost the ticket in the shop.
The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was being treated for mental illness in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.
A home surveillance video shows a South Florida man accused of killing his wife and then posting a picture of her bloody body on Facebook walk away from a confrontation and then return a few moments later to fire a gun.
The massive fire that destroyed part of a Jersey shore boardwalk began in wiring damaged in Superstorm Sandy, officials said Tuesday. Investigators said the Seaside fire began in wiring that dated to the 1970s and was located under a frozen custard stand and candy shop.
Police are searching for a 14-year-old girl after they say home invaders abducted her from her house southeast of Atlanta. Police early Tuesday morning were stopping cars and checking them during an all-out search for the girl.
A Florida woman who appeared on several national television programs as a teen because of her uncontrollable hiccupping went on trial on a murder charge on Tuesday.
Colorado authorities coping with the aftermath of last week’s deadly downpours stepped up the search for victims left stranded in the foothills of the Rockies and evacuations of prairie towns in danger of being swamped as the flood crest moved downstream.
A dozen people died in a shooting rampage Monday at the Washington Navy Yard. It was the deadliest attack at a domestic military installation since November 2009, when an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas.
Engineers declared success on Tuesday as the Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright during an unprecedented, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side where it capsized last year off Tuscany.
Almost 1 in 10 U.S. high school seniors have engaged in recent extreme binge drinking — downing at least 10 drinks — at a rate that barely budged over six years, according to a report.
The deadly attack at the Washington Navy Yard was carried out by one of the military’s own: a defense contract employee and former Navy reservist who used a valid pass to get onto the installation and started firing inside a building, killing 12 people before he was slain in a gun battle with police.
1
2
3
4
5
Slots player turns $25 bet into $1.2M at Nevada casino
I-15 reopens after closure, barricade event in North Las Vegas
Fill a truck for $100 at Tropicana liquidation sale
California power outage? It’s planned, so be ready for it
Las Vegas mobile home park resident: ‘Your seniors out here are mistreated’