ODU student facebook group fights for guns on campus
NORFOLK -- Students are asking to bring guns on campus, after a wave of crime near Old Dominion University. Labor Day weekend, two people were robbed on or near the campus. Some ODU students started a Facebook page, demanding the right to carry concealed handguns on school property. One post reads, "We have the right to protect ourselves, especially in the high crime areas near ODU." ODU, like ...
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Gun carriers dodge bullet
Business owner Joshua Wrye is always on the move. That's why he decided to start carrying a gun on his hip as a means of protection this year.
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No get-out-of-jail card for Burress
Former New York Giants Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress has come up short in his bid for work release during his two-year prison sentence in a gun case, a denial that could keep him behind bars until at least next spring, prison officials said Tuesday.
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Smugglers flood N.J. with guns
It’s called the Iron Pipeline. Interstate 95 and its connector highways earned that nickname as the favored route of gun smugglers who bring inexpensively purchased firearms from East Coast states with lax gun-control laws into strict states like New Jersey.
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Charges dropped against gun-toting grandma
HOUSTON -- Charges have been dismissed against a gun-toting great-great-great grandmother who spent the night in jail last month after she fired shots into the air, authorities said. The incident happened on a Saturday afternoon in the Acres Homes area of northwest Houston. Evelyn Maxey said she noticed several horses trampling through her yard and after several attempts to divert the unwanted ...
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