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Monday, April 29, 2013 at 9:00 am

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Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: A man in Manchester, Illinois allegedly broke into a house in the middle of the night, killing five members of a family, including a pregnant mother, and an infant. The shooter, it turns out, is the small town mayor's nephew. Riverfront Times has the story.

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:27 am
Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: If you're looking for the face of "The Year in Hate and Extremism," it's the face of neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, at least, according to the cover of the Southern Poverty Law Center's latest report. Ready's spot on the front is well deserved, after he murdered a man, two women, and a child before killing himself at a Gilbert house in May. Phoenix New Times has the story.

Friday, January 18, 2013 at 6:05 am

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Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: The roster, assembled by a renowned gun-violence organization, includes nearly 180 school shooting incidents, and the pace of the crimes seems to be accelerating. Of that total, 73 have taken place in the past three years alone. Westword has the story.

Monday, November 26, 2012 at 8:26 am
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On Thanksgiving afternoon, Byron Smith shot and killed two teenagers he claims had broken into his home, but prosecutors aren't totally buying it and have arrested Smith on suspicion of second-degree murder. City Pages has the full story.
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 8:05 am
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Fall 2011 was a very bad time to be romatically involved with Angelina O'Mara. A day after her ex-husband turned up dead with a gunshot wound to the head, O'Mara's boyfriend was found dead in similar circumstances. She initially insisted she's totally innocent, but this week admitted to murdering her ex-hubby. City Pages has the full story.
Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 2:55 pm
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It's official: Jared Lee Loughner will die in prison. Loughner, who turned 24 in September, was the lone shooter in last year's Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured 13, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Phoenix New Times has the story.

Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 7:10 am

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A 19-year-old had chilling online plans for shooting up a suburban Houston school -- he would video himself killing kids and himself, but he would leave some students alive to be tortured by the memories of the day: "not only did I [eff] with dead kids. I [effed] with alive ones too," he wrote. The Houston Press has the story.

Friday, August 31, 2012 at 6:17 am

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Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: Some places where massacres happened were repaired by left basically unchanged, with widely varied results. Others were wiped off the map and something else put in their place. Which ones? Westword has the story.

Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 5:43 am

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Breakfast reading from the Village Voice Empire: In court documents, the Holmes prosecutors claim he was banned from the campus he attended after making the aforementioned threats, but the school says that's not true. Who's telling the truth? Westword has the story.

Friday, May 18, 2012 at 10:18 am
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Joseph Thomas, a 42-year-old Minnesota resident, had a sick notion of how he could get America talking about immigration issues -- he planned to drive an inferno-on-wheels into St. Paul's Mexican consulate. He and another white supremacist were stockpiling weapons in preparation for a "race war," the FBI says. City Pages has the full story.