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1 dead in Seattle university shooting
 

A lone gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, killing one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, Seattle police said.

 
Families release videos of couple held in Afghanistan

In two short videos received by Caitlan Coleman’s parents last year, Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, are seen calling on the U.S. government to free them and their child, who would be about 18 months old, from Taliban captors.

 
Officials: Threat to Bergdahl’s life led to action

The Obama administration has told senators it didn’t notify Congress about the pending swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban officials because the Taliban had threatened to kill him if the deal was made public, three congressional officials have told The Associated Press.

 
NYC child stabbing suspect arrested, eyed in 3rd attack

A recently released convict suspected of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old boy and injuring a 7-year-old girl in a Brooklyn elevator is also being eyed in the stabbing of a homeless man days later at a Manhattan subway platform, a police official said Thursday.

 
4-year-old saves trapped dad with chainsaw

A man who was pinned under a large tree branch in Michigan’s northwestern Lower Peninsula is crediting his 4-year-old son’s quick efforts for helping to get him free.

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23 firefighters, 11 others injured in Staten Island fire

Fire tore through three townhouses on Staten Island early Thursday, injuring 34 people including two young children who were tossed out of a smoke-filled second-floor window into the arms of neighbors below, authorities and witnesses said.

 
Target CEO steps down 5 months after data breach

Target’s CEO has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a breach of customer data, showing how responsibility for computer security now reaches right to the top.

 
Islamic extremist leader threatens to sell Nigerian girls

Th islamic leader of extremist group Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” is threatening to sell the 300 kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls into slavery.

 
5 biggest box office flops of 2014, so far

It’s now May, which means the summer movie season has officially kicked off. And while some movies have been making money hand over fist in 2014 (Hello “Captain America!”), there have also been a few bombs.

 
Bachelor party cut short after dead body found in RV

A group of men on their way to the Kentucky Derby for a bachelor party made a gruesome discovery after they pulled their rented RV over in southeastern Minnesota: a body inside the vehicle’s exterior cargo compartment.

 
8 circus aerial acrobats free fall in freak accident

A group of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey performers plummeted 25 to 40 feet in a “larger-than-life” circus act, causing critical injury.

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