By Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor
Four Oakland, Calif., police officers shot down. An Alabama man strolling a small town with a rifle, looking for victims. Seven elderly people shot dead at a North Carolina nursing home. And on Sunday, six people, including four kids, died in an apparent murder-suicide in an upscale neighborhood [...]

By Dan Bowens, wral.com
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Robert Kenneth Stewart, 45, is accused of shooting and killing seven patients and a nurse at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center before Carthage police Cpl. Justin Garner, 25, shot him.
“I cannot imagine the terror that the families felt after the event and the horror the patients felt during the event,” said [...]

By Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
John Woods sometimes sits in a classroom at the University of Texas and wonders what would happen if somebody walked in and started shooting.
In April 2007, he was a student at Virginia Tech when his girlfriend and several other people he knew there were gunned down in the deadliest mass [...]

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Could a campus shooting be stopped by a student carrying a gun? A public hearing on a bill that would allow licensed concealed gun carriers to take their weapons to college is scheduled for today.
- Proponents say that if students and instructors were armed it could cause would-be killers to rethink their plans. And [...]

By M.L. Johnson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
At least three new books seeking to understand the Columbine school shooting in Colorado are coming out in time for next month’s 10th anniversary.
Two are written by journalists who covered the rampage and then spent a decade looking into the killers’ backgrounds, the government investigation and survivors’ recovery. The third [...]

By Candice Nelson, wsls.com
The suspect in The Homestead shootings, Beacher Hackney, is still on the run. While the community is still in shock there, one local professor talked to us about warning signs that could have indicated something was wrong.
Dr. Tod Burke is not an expert on Beacher Hackney but the Radford University criminal justice [...]

By Tonya Root, TheSunNews.com
With the 10th anniversary of one of the nations’ worst school shootings about a month away, a school violence expert said local emergency officials should plan to prevent and manage such an incident here.
The advice came Thursday during the final day of the state’s annual hurricane and emergency management conference.
About 350 people [...]

By Melissa Desousa, The Kingston Whig Standard
One afternoon 10 years ago, Mike Neuts’ life changed forever.
On Feb. 6, 1998, Neuts’ son, Myles, was found unconscious, hanging from a coat hook in a washroom stall at his school in Chatham. Six days later, he was removed from life support after doctors told the Neuts family that [...]

By Jessica Leeder, TheGlobeAndMail.com
Waves of workers taking up arms have begun to give executives around the world something other than the bottom line to worry about.
Among employees fed up with layoffs and cutbacks linked to the floundering economy, conventional labour negotiations are falling out of favour. Their substitute? More pointed tactics, particularly in France, [...]

By Ben Leichtling, Blogger News Network
There are too many reports of workplace harassment and bullying to list. It seems that at least 30 percent of managers and employees are bullied and harassed. Many critics and experts focus only on bullying bosses, but I’ve seen just as many employees and coworkers use these [...]