Fourteen people were killed, probably including the gunman, and four were critically injured during a massacre at a civic center in Binghamton, New York, police said Friday.
It is the fourth mass shooting in the US in as many weeks.
In North Carolina last Sunday, a 45-year-old man slaughtered 10 people in a nursing home.
On March 10, a 28-year-old man in Alabama killed 10 people, including his own mother, before taking his own life.
A few days later in Miami, a man shot and killed five people, including his estranged wife and himself.
A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for beating his mother to death with a baseball bat after an argument over his grades.
A woman who believes she was being stalked by a cult has been charged with stabbing her two-year-old daughter 100 times with scissors, her lawyer and police have said, and can be heard yelling "Die! Die!" on an emergency call.
A Jamaica-sized ice shelf is close to wrenching itself away from Antarctica, following dramatic weakening of an ice "bridge" linking it to the continent, the European Space Agency (ESA) reports.
The icy umbilical cord tying the Wilkins Ice Shelf to two islands on the Antarctic peninsula "looks set to collapse", ESA says.
Police say a mother drugged her 13-year-old daughter so the woman's boyfriend could get the girl pregnant.
Police say 32-year-old Shana Brown is no longer able to have children, but wanted a baby with her boyfriend
The Washington Ballet was reeling yesterday from the death of one of its Studio Company members, who was hit by a car on Friday after a performance at Harford Community College in Bel Air Md.
The death toll from bushfires in southeastern Australia has risen to 210, police in the state of Victoria said.
