SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The city of Syracuse is getting help from New York state in combatting a spate of gun violence that has killed two children and wounded several other youths and adults in recent weeks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that state police will expand patrols and ...

DETROIT (AP) — An eastside Detroit church will hold a vigil to remember innocent victims of gun violence.

The Church of the Messiah’s 11th annual Fallen Angels observance will start at 5:30 p.m. Monday with a walk near the church followed by a ceremony. Individuals and community ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has awarded the Reno Police Department a pair of grants totaling nearly $1.7 million to help combat opioid abuse and reduce gun violence.

Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve (SHEE’-vee) says the money will help the city address two significant problems ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Three Chicago women have filed a lawsuit calling for tighter regulation of gun sales in Illinois, including the video-recording of transactions and background checks on all gun store and gun show employees.

In their lawsuit, the women contend gun violence inflicts physical, ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday passed the first anti-violence legislation in more than a decade that deals directly with firearms, after years of lobbying by violence-prevention groups to persuade a Legislature historically protective of gun rights.

The bill ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle-area officials have approved a set of measures addressing gun safety, including an ordinance requiring gun owners to safely store their firearms.

KOMO-TV reports the King County ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California law allowing certain people to ask judges to temporarily bar individuals who are believed to be dangerous from having guns is being used infrequently, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

The law, which took effect in 2016, allows family members and police ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A student who survived the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, urged senators Friday to reject the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Aalayah Eastmond said that if Kavanaugh doesn’t have the decency to shake ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A months-long dispute between a Kansas City school district and students alleging free speech violations has escalated into a court battle involving the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU of Kansas asked the U.S. Court for the District of Kansas this week to ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story Aug. 28 about action by the California Legislature, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the state Assembly approved legislation limiting the state’s “felony murder” rule. The Assembly did not take up the bill.

A corrected version of the story ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s candidates for governor openly sparred over guns on Monday after a mass shooting at a video game tournament.

Democrats contended Republicans were ignoring a wave of gun violence in the state, including the February shooting at a high school in Parkland ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Gun control advocates and one of the survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting are finishing a 50-mile, four-day march in Massachusetts to the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson.

The student-led group is gathering outside company ...

BOSTON (AP) — The parents of one of the 17 people slain at the Parkland, Florida school shooting will join gun-control advocates and a city councilor at an event in Boston designed to call attention to gun violence.

Organizers say the event will be held at City Hall Plaza on Monday. ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — As Justen Wright began to embalm his cousin and best friend, the loss hit him unexpectedly and hard.

“I cried all over him like a baby, God knows I did,” Wright said. “It was the last thing I could do for him. Even in that moment, it was difficult to ...

RIVERDALE, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago college student is recovering from a gunshot wound suffered shortly after he returned home from an internship on Capitol Hill.

DeQuawn Bruce of Riverdale says he was in his uncle’s backyard on Aug. 10 when he became a victim of gun violence. Bruce ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas residents die by gunfire at a rate higher than 43 other states, but state lawmakers aren’t considering weapons restrictions, according to a recent newspaper analysis.

Arkansas’ gun-death rate was 16 per 100,000 people from 1999 through 2016,

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Leaders and residents say they’re frustrated by the kind of violence that killed a 7-year-old Florida girl, as officials offer an $11,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.

Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams told news outlets Sunday that a ...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Students from Parkland, Florida, and Newtown, Connecticut, teamed up for the final leg of a nationwide bus tour to protest gun violence and the policies of the National Rifle Association.

Supporters gathered Sunday afternoon in Newtown near the site of the December ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner blamed Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday for the city’s gun violence, saying the mayor has “failed horribly” on public safety after gunfire last weekend injured more than 70 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Latest on Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s comments on the “failure” of Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to stem gun violence (all times local):

3:25 p.m.

A spokesman for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel dismisses Gov. Bruce Rauner’s complaint about gun ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner says he will not dispatch the Illinois National Guard to Chicago to stem gun violence.

The Republican said Wednesday that “the National Guard is not for neighborhood policing.”

He dismissed suggestions that he call up the Guard after more ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Mayor Sly James is calling for gun reform after six people died and 22 were wounded in the first days of August.

Bernice Brown, 43, was killed last week while trying to break up a fight involving her son. Xindong Hao, 38, died that same day after being ...

MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — Protesters shouted “shame” as people entered a Republican fundraiser featuring a National Rifle Association leader months after a shooting at a nearby Kentucky high school left two students dead and several others injured.

News media outlets report that inside the Friday ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on protest demanding government action on gun violence, resignation of mayor and police superintendent (all times local):

7:15 p.m.

About 200 anti-violence protesters took their message to an affluent neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side, briefly shutting ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York family who’d gathered to mourn a gun violence victim learned that another relative had just been shot and wounded.

ATLANTA (AP) — School shooting survivors from Parkland, Florida, who are touring the nation to register voters were welcomed Sunday to Atlanta by Martin Luther King III, who shared his own story of gun violence.

King said most everyone knows his father was assassinated in Memphis, ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle-area officials are considering five pieces of legislation that would require warning signs outside of gun shops and secure firearm storage among other things.

King County Council Chairman Joe McDermott and Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles introduced the five-piece ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Six students from Chicago and its suburbs are among more than two dozen whose anti-violence activism has earned them Giffords Courage Fellowships to aid them in organizing anti-violence prevention.

Tre ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Madison area is taking a coordinated approach to gun violence with a new program that includes representatives of agencies from the city and Dane County, including nonprofit groups.

The Community Safety Intervention Team was created last year in response to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The founder of the New York City-based Guardian Angels says he’ll head upstate with members of his neighborhood patrol group to help Albany residents quell a recent spate of gun violence.

Curtis Sliwa (SLEE’-wuh) says several Albany residents emailed the group seeking ...