When Ronald "Loony" Barron urged a young graffiti tagger to put away his paint cans, he was doing what he viewed as his mission — steering kids away from crime — but he paid for it with his life. Los Angeles police arrested a 16-year-old boy on Tuesday, saying he ...

A lawyer for a ninth-grader charged with shooting a fellow student to death at their Alabama school says the violence was likely related to gang activity. Bruce Gardner represents a 14-year-old boy being held in the slaying of Todd Brown, a fellow ninth grader at ...

Police say one person is dead and four critically injured after a shooting outside a nightclub near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. The shooting around 1:40 a.m. Sunday took place outside the Suede Nightclub and Lounge on Bay Street, according to a ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed into a nightclub in the Mexican beach resort of Mazatlan and shot dead six people in what looked like the latest in a flurry of drug cartel attacks. Early Saturday, four men entered the nightclub and fatally shot two waiters and a patron on a crowded dance floor. They then turned back and shot three ...