Jared Lee Loughner

Arizona law bans destroying guns purchased in buyback programs

2013-05-04 16:04:00

TUCSON — City- or county-sponsored gun buybacks — often used in larger cities to entice people to give up their handguns — have become effectively pointless in Arizona with legislation signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. The bill prohibits...

Oklahoma urges 7,000 dental patients to get hepatitis, HIV tests

2013-03-28 15:26:00

As many as 7,000 dental patients in Oklahoma are being urged to take blood tests for hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS after health officials said they discovered that instruments in a local practice were not properly cleaned. The warning of...

Fugitive on 'most wanted' list returns to U.S. for prosecution

2013-03-28 07:00:00

A fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list is back in the U.S. facing first-degree murder charges after Salvadoran journalists intrigued by his notoriety tracked him down. His hide-out? The family home, about 200 yards from a police station, the...

Officer stopped Jared Loughner hours before Tuscon shooting rampage

2013-03-28 11:21:00

TUCSON -- Just hours before his arrest for shooting six people to death and wounding 13 others, Jared Lee Loughner had another brush with the law, breaking down and weeping in front of an officer who pulled him over. Among the information contained in...

Newtown massacre: Warrants detail Adam Lanza's world of weapons

2013-03-28 07:44:00

Adam Lanza, the gunman who attacked a Connecticut elementary school, killing 20 children and six adults, had an arsenal of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and even samurai swords, knives and a bayonet, according to search warrants released on...

Hunters seek to boycott Colorado over new gun control laws

2013-03-27 14:02:00

Some hunters are targeting Colorado’s important tourism dollars by urging a boycott of the state because of its recently approved gun control legislation. “It’s a question of principle,”� Chris Jurney, vice president of the...

Geologists seek cause of landslide at Whidbey Island

2013-03-28 12:58:00

Geologists searched for clues Thursday to explain the collapse of a 1,000-foot chunk of hillside on the west side of Whidbey Island in Washington state that left a number of homes in danger. The geological team was on the island, located in Puget...

Vegas man's goal: Getting off Nevada's infamous Black Book

2013-03-28 13:23:00

LAS VEGAS — All his life, Frank Citro Jr. has taken care of business. He grew up in Jersey City, N.J., working as a tough guy known as Frankie. With his wrecking-ball body, he provided muscle for the collections industry. In the 1980s, he did...

Landslide endangers 33 homes on Washington state's Whidbey Island

2013-03-27 14:57:00

About 33 houses, many summer or weekend getaways, are in danger after a major landslide hit Whidbey Island in the state of Washington. No injuries have been reported by the slide of mud and debris that rolled through the area near Alderwood Street and...

Oklahoma earthquakes linked to injection wells

2013-03-27 14:26:00

HOUSTON -- Oklahoma’s largest-recorded earthquake was�triggered�by injection wells used by the oil and gas industry, according to a report released this week. The Tuesday report in the geoscience�journal Geology is the latest scientific evidence...

Tucson shooting: 3,000 pages of sought-after records made public

2013-03-27 09:24:00

TUCSON -- More than two years after a gunman opened fire in Tucson killing six and seriously wounding former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities on Wednesday released thousands of pages of records about the case that had previously been kept private....

Jared Loughner's friend described 'hostile' home environment

2013-03-27 13:09:00

TUCSON -- Jared Lee Loughner, convicted in a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, grew up in what was described as a “kind of a hostile environment,” a high school friend told law enforcement officials,...

This combination image shows Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman who killed six people and wounded former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011.

2013-03-27 10:34:43

Three faces of Jared Lee Loughner: at the Tucson Festival of Books, left, in an undated photo obtained from MySpace and in another undated photo released by the Pima County Sheriff's Department to the Arizona Republic.

2012-11-08 07:59:55

Jared Loughner, who pleaded guilty to a 2011 mass shooting, will be sentenced Thursday.

2012-11-08 00:00:00