Authorities say a white man wearing a mask and carrying a gun painted with a swastika killed 3 Black people inside a Dollar General store on Saturday.
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Chicago police probe shooting at White Sox game
Two women were injured Friday night in a shooting during a White Sox baseball game at Guaranteed Rate Field. (August 26)
0827 Today in History
0827 Today in History
‘Walking with our ancestors’: Thousands fighting for civil rights attend March on Washington
It’s been 60 years since Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
60th Anniversary of the March on Washington
More than a quarter million people were at the March on Washington. 60 years later, people gather in Washington, D.C., to celebrate its anniversary.
Bob Barker, ‘Price is Right’ host and animal advocate, dies at 99
A publicist says popular game show host Bob Barker, a household name for a half-century as host of “Truth or Consequences” and “The Price Is Right,” has died at his home in Los Angeles. Barker was 99. (Aug. 26)
Pete the peacock, adored by Las Vegas neighborhood, fatally shot by bow and arrow
Las Vegas authorities are trying to find who killed a beloved neighborhood peacock using a hunter’s bow and arrow.
At least 7 injured in shooting during Boston parade, police say
At least seven people were injured when gunfire broke out in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, police said.
A Florida woman returned a book to a library drop box. It took part of her finger, too.
Bobbie Haverly was running errands on a Friday afternoon in July. Her plans were upended when a freak accident at the library severed her finger.
60 years ago in Baltimore, a child’s carousel ride marked the end of a civil rights journey
On the day MLK delivered a historic speech in Washington, a child’s carousel ride marked the end of segregation at a Baltimore amusement park.