gun violence

Gun violence isn't only hurting the victims and their families. According to a new report, the American taxpayer is getting hit hard financially by picking up most of the tab of gunshot-related hospital costs.

A 9-year-old Trenton girl who was apparently caught in the middle of a violent confrontation is listed in stable condition, after being shot three times in the shoulder and leg on Monday.

With gun violence escalating in Newark, authorities have put forth a two-pronged plan to get things under control.

Over the past two years, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office has held 10 gun buyback programs, collecting more than 16,000 weapons including assault rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers.

The mall where a Maryland teenager gunned down two people before killing himself was set for a somber reopening Monday, under increased security, as police worked to figure out why the shooting took place and whether the gunman knew either victim.

A shooting at a skateboard and clothing shop in a suburban Maryland mall left two store employees and their shotgun-wielding assailant dead Saturday, police said.

An Arizona jury Thursday returned guilty verdicts against a man charged in the 1991 killings of nine people, including six monks, at a suburban Phoenix Buddhist temple.

Police in Indiana are trying to determine why a Purdue University student fatally shot a classmate Tuesday. Cody Cousins, 23, shot Andrew Boldt, a 21-year-old teaching assistant in a basement classroom of the school's electrical engineering building...

The wife of a man who was shot and killed during an argument over texting at a Florida movie theater said Wednesday that her "whole world just got shattered in a million pieces." Nicole Oulson cried during a news conference at her attorney's office in Tampa...

New Jersey ranks third in the United States, receiving a grade of A-minus, in a study of gun reform laws produced by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.