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Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on what is happening in Brazil. The piece also appeared in The Epoch Times. Although one wouldn’t know it from the media coverage of gun control, the best social science has shown that law-abiding citizens frequently deter criminals. But when ideology trumps facts, policymakers [...]

Another Walmart became the scene of a grisly shooting on Thursday in Evansville, Indiana. Things might have turned out a whole lot worse had it not been for the apparent bravery of one employee, said to have rescued a wounded woman from certain death. The Associated Press reported that 25-year-old Ronald Ray Mosley II stormed [...]

GLENVIEW, Ill. —  A 31-year-old man is charged in connection to the shooting that took place at a Glenview Mariano’s Friday. According to Glenview police, Anthony Reschke was charged with attempted first-degree murder on Sunday and additional charges are pending. Red more...

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. — An investigation is underway after shots were fired during an attempted car theft in Mount Prospect. Police said the incident happened early Thursday morning in the 100 block of South I Oka Avenue. Read more...

Prosecutors say a man pointed a gun at a woman and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not fire, during a burglary in Waukegan where he also attacked the victim, leaving her and a baby injured. Jose L. Lopez-Ruiz, 28, of Park City, was charged with residential burglary, aggravated battery to a child, aggravated [...]

A SWAT team assisted officers in taking a Chicago man into custody after he was wanted for firing shots at another car on Route 41 in Highland Park, officials said. The shooting happened around 2:10 p.m. on August 15 in the area of Route 41 and Central Avenue in Highland Park. Read more...

A Wisconsin man allegedly resisted arrest and battered a police officer in Richmond, prompting the officer to call emergency backup to take the man into custody. Erik M. Taylor, 40, of Sharon, Wisconsin, was charged with aggravated battery on a peace officer, aggravated driving on a revoked license, obstructing identification, resisting a peace officer and [...]

Santa Fe district attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies and special prosecutor Andrea Reeb said Thursday on FNC’s “The Five” that Alec Baldwin definitely pulled the trigger of the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while discussing the involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor. Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has also been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Read more...

CHICAGO — Security video captured the accidental shooting of a 12-year-old boy at a gas station on the city’s South Side. The shooting happened just after midnight Friday on the 1400 block of East 87th Street. Read more...

Officers were able to take an armed man into custody after he walked through a residential neighborhood in Grayslake and began firing shots Thursday afternoon. The Grayslake Police Department responded around 12:30 p.m. Thursday to the 300 block of Clarewood Circle in Grayslake for a report of shots fired. Read more...