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Police and firefighters investigate the scene of a house fire with multiple fatalities in Broken Arrow, Okla., outside Tulsa, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead after the fire was extinguished and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. Preliminary autopsy reports show eight members of a Broken Arrow family found dead inside their burning home were each shot. The bodies of Brian Nelson, 34, his wife Brittney Nelson, 32, and their six children were found in October 2022 inside the burning home in what police at the time called a murder-suicide. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP, File)

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Autopsy: Parents, kids in burning Oklahoma home were shot
Tue,04/25/23-11:55AM , 68 Reads
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Preliminary autopsy reports show eight members of an Oklahoma family found dead inside their burning home were each shot.
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Mass killing of civilians by security forces in Burkina Faso
Tue,04/25/23-10:27AM , 67 Reads
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The accounts are horrific. Women killed while carrying babies on their backs, the wounded hunted down and villagers watching the execution of their neighbors, fearing they'd be next.
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Police take up positions near the scene of a shooting Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, in St. Louis. Ten years after gaining local control of its police for the first time since the Civil War, the city of St. Louis has even more murders than before — and Missouri lawmakers are again considering a state takeover of the police force. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

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GOP lawmakers push for state control of St. Louis police
By DAVID A. LIEB AND JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sun,04/23/23-8:33AM , 77 Reads
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ten years after gaining local control of its police for the first time since the Civil War, the city of St. Louis has more murders than ever before — and Missouri's Republican lawmakers are again pressuring for a state takeover of the police force.
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A student from the Thomazia Montoro public school lights a candle during a vigil asking for peace the day after a student stabbed a teacher to death at the school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 28, 2023. Brazil is grappling with a wave of violence in its schools. The government has sought input from independent researchers and convened a meeting on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, of ministers, mayors and Supreme Court justices to discuss possible solutions. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

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Brazil's school violence mirrors US. Its reaction doesn't
By LAÍS MARTINS AND COLLIN BINKLEY - SAO PAULO
Sat,04/22/23-8:28AM , 46 Reads
About two weeks after a man killed four children in a Brazilian daycare center, authorities already have rounded up some 300 adults and minors nationwide accused of spreading hate speech or stoking school violence.
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