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PARIS (AP) -- Masked gunmen stormed the offices of a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people Wednesday, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France's deadliest terrorist attack in half a century.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday offered U.S. assistance to pursue the terrorists responsible for a "horrific shooting" at a satirical weekly newspaper that left 12 people dead.

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A woman is in critical condition at Cooper University Hospital after a man shot her and then fatally shot himself outside the facility.

PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say rapper Beanie Sigel has been shot in New Jersey and is being treated for a "life-threatening injury."

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of New Jersey's largest city announced expanded police patrols Monday and other measures aimed at reducing violence after a holiday weekend in which 11 shootings killed three people and wounded several others.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A gunman fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings in Austin and tried to set the Mexican Consulate ablaze early Friday before he died during a confrontation with police, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of shootings in which a gunman wounds or kills multiple people has increased dramatically in recent years, with the majority of attacks in the last decade occurring at a business or a school, according to an FBI report released Wednesday.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- UPS says two employees killed in a shooting at a package-processing facility in Alabama were supervisors who had worked for the company for years.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Cellphone video that shows a witness raising his hands in the air immediately after the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson appears to support previous accounts and could bolster arguments that Michael Brown was surrendering when he was shot, legal experts said Friday.

PHOENIX (AP) -- "All right, full auto," the firing-range instructor tells a 9-year-old girl. She braces the Uzi submachine gun and opens fire at a black-silhouette target. But the recoil wrenches the fully automatic weapon upward, and the instructor is shot in the head and killed.