Operation Phobos

As the number of school shootings rises in America, most recently at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, the amount of hoax threats has skyrocketed too – and they're traumatizing students.

The grandson of Andrew Lester, the man who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl after he rang Lester's doorbell, told CNN's Don Lemon on Thursday that he had regularly heard his grandfather make racist comments.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the span of a little over a month, Central Florida has been left reeling by a spate of several gruesome gun deaths, many of them young children.

On Monday morning, The Washington Post published a series of 3D animations to show "how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart." A few hours later, a 28-year-old shooter armed with two assault rifles and a handgun killed six people at a private Christian school in Nashville.

A Michigan woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to the brutal murder of her 3-year-old daughter.

A man convicted of capital murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend’s 2-year-old son got an earful from trial attendees as he was hauled off to spend the rest of his life in prison without parole, according to the Times Record News. 

California authorities arrested Austin Eis, 24, for murder and other crimes, including an earlier stabbing of a Walmart employee

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Missouri state Rep. Maggie Nurrenbern has been sounding the alarm for years over the state’s loose gun laws and in February introduced a bill limiting the scope of Missouri’s “stand your ground” law. The bill went nowhere. 

After a child was found dead, it turned out that his mother was across a neighboring state and her SUV partially submerged in the ocean, prosecutors said.

I should have known from the get-go that this would be a different kind of April Thursday here in Tennessee...After all, Martin Luther King was murdered here in Memphis, on a Thursday, on a balcony at The Lorraine Hotel, on April 4, 1968. 

Far-right Missouri senator accused of selectively invoking hate crime laws after characterizing shooting as attack on Christians

People came to this place for its sweeping views. The circular gravel turnoff sat alongside the Pacific Coast Highway, just across a small bridge over the tiny Juan Creek in Mendocino County. 

FORT WORTH, Texas — Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver indicted on capital murder and kidnapping charges in the killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment hearing Monday in Wise County. 

Republican Alaska state Rep. David Eastman this week stunned observers when he asked about the potential economic benefits of abused children dying.