Some senior Democrats plan to remain neutral for now in the presidential race in part to keep open the option to broker a peaceful resolution to a tight contest.
AP - If there is such a thing as a profile of a mass murderer, Steven Kazmierczak didn't fit it: outstanding student, engaging, polite and industrious, with what looked like a bright future in the criminal justice field.
AP - A powerful blast went off in the house of a senior Islamic Jihad activist Friday, killing him, his wife, three sons and three neighbors, medics and an Islamic Jihad spokesman said.
As family and friends mourn the five victims of a shooting rampage on the campus of Northern Illinois University, details are emerging about the man police identified as the shooter. Steven P. Kazmierczak was an award-winning sociology student and a leader of a campus criminal justice group.
Steven P. Kazmierczak, identified as the gunman in Thursday's shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University, was "an outstanding student" who reportedly stopped taking medication recently and became "somewhat erratic," the university's police chief said today.
U.S. President George W. Bush is due to arrive in Benin on Saturday, where he will kick off a six-day trip to a continent where he enjoys high approval ratings.