March is named for Mars, the Roman god of war, because spring was the time of year that military battles resumed after the winter. ◼️ Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, is the ...

A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed Saturday night in Stockton, police said. Officers responded to a report of a person shot around 10 p.m. at Anderson Park, which is located in the 6300 block ...

A man hailed as the world’s first imam to say he was gay was shot dead in South Africa on Saturday, local police said, in what rights groups fear could be a hate crime. Eastern Cape provincial ...

A Florida man is expected to be arraigned on two felony counts of attempted murder Tuesday after he allegedly shot and injured two men he thought were “Palestinian,” according to Miami Beach ...

Independent aviation accident investigators are breaking down the latest clues from the deadly midair collision near Reagan National Airport that killed 67 people on Jan. 29. The National ...

Reagan came close to returning to state last year, but it fell to O’Connor in a three-game series the fourth round of playoffs. “It’s motivation for us to get past that fourth round or ...

Another Syrian refugee who fled the war has become the second of the 10 victims of Sweden’s worst ever mass shooting to be named. Father-of-two Bassam Al Sheleh, 48, posted a video wishing ...

When visibility is good, pilots of regional airline jets bound for Reagan National Airport expect ... prompting him to pull up as the helicopter shot past. His evasive maneuver, he said, left ...

The shooting appears to have been targeted, authorities said, noting they are still working to determine a motive. The gunman had already fled when officers arrived at the shooting scene ...

The suspect in Sweden's mass shooting which saw 11 people killed on Tuesday has been named locally as Rickard Andersson, 35. Andersson allegedly carried out the massacre at the adult education ...