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HOUSTON (AP) -- A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said....
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's government and the country's largest rebel movement signed a historic peace accord Monday evening ending a half-century of combat that caused more than 220,000 deaths and made 8 million homeless....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Patricia L. Guilfoyle, Catholic HeraldBy Patricia L. GuilfoyleCHARLOTTE,N.C. (CNS) -- Justin Carr's future looked bright. He had just celebrated his26th birthday, started a new job, and was getting ready to settle down with hishigh school sweetheart and start a family.Butall that ended the night of Sept. 21, when a bullet shattered his skull. Thenext day, he was dead.Carr'sdeath marked the most violent episode in nearly a week of protests in Charlottethat erupted after another man, Keith Lamont Scott, was shot and killed bypolice Sept. 20 in an apartment complex parking lot.Demandingjustice in the police shooting, protesters marched through uptown Charlotte theevening of Sept. 21 and confronted police in riot gear. Carr was among them."Ineed to make a stand," he told his mother when he called her from thescene. He said wanted to follow in the footsteps of his grandmother, who hadmarched during the civil rights era.Lessthan an hour later, Vivian Carr learned her son ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Breakfast Club" star Molly Ringwald will return to a New York stage in an adaptation of another classic 1980s film - "Terms of Endearment."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is poised to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for the kingdom's alleged backing of the terrorists who carried out the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than one-third of calls to a suicide hotline for troubled veterans are not being answered by front-line staffers because of poor work habits and other problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the hotline's former director....
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- The young man accused of killing five people in a Washington state shopping mall before leading authorities on a nearly 24-hour manhunt has confessed to the slayings, according to court documents released Monday....
HOUSTON (AP) -- A disgruntled lawyer who had numerous weapons randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning, hitting six people, one critically, before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Another three people had injuries from glass or debris....
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- With millions watching and the American presidency on the line, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are poised for a must-see showdown Monday night, pitting the Democrat's call for steady, experienced leadership against the Republican's pugnacious promises to upend Washington....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Everyone's aware of the stakes for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the first presidential debate, but there's a third person in the equation who faces a different pressure: Lester Holt....
