Michael Post

A masked man burst into a 7-Eleven near Seattle early Sunday morning, swinging a hatchet and slicing the store clerk. Before the masked man could seriously hurt anyone, though, a customer pulled out a concealed weapon and fatally shot the attacker.

Two days after authorities say he shot a pastor in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, 30-year-old Kyle Odom was contacted by the Secret Service for throwing something over the fence of the White House. But his cross-country journey is not the strangest part of the story.

On Tuesday evening, as tourists snapped photos in front of the White House, a young man with blond hair and blue eyes approached the black iron fence.

The incident was the latest in a string of controversial comments by Trump regarding protesters at his rallies. In November, after a Black Lives Matter protester was beaten after disrupting a rally, Trump appeared to condone the treatment.

With the leader of the free world in one hand and Michelle Obama in the other, McLaurin danced with sheer and utter joy, shaking her hips like a 16-year-old and flashing a smile as bright as the camera flashes going off all around her.

Roughly 20 minutes after an Uber driver dropped a family off at their Kalamazoo hotel, a man matching the driver's description was arrested nearby in connection with the deadly shooting spree.

Benoit Violier's apparent suicide in Switzerland has shocked the restaurant world and sown confusion about why he would kill himself a month after being crowned the best chef in the world.

Two years ago, LaVoy Finicum was an unknown rancher grazing his cattle on 17,000 acres in Arizona. Then he heard about the Bundy family.

Despite a Regal Cinema prohibition against firearms, Dane Gallion sneaked his piece into the theater. He was, he later told police, "concerned about recent mass shootings in public places."

Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez thought she was doing the right thing when she pulled out her pistol and fired at a pair of shoplifters as they fled from a Home Depot near Detroit.

A northern Illinois police officer whose fatal shooting triggered a large manhunt carefully staged his death to make it look like he was killed in the line of duty and had been stealing for years from a youth program he oversaw, authorities said Wednesday.

The incident occurred on Halloween and involved a man in a mask with a fake gun. Also, the suspect was a former employee of the store and knew the owner well.

The man walked into the Kronan school in Trollhättan, Sweden, on Thursday morning dressed like Darth Vader, with a long black trench-coat, black boots, black helmet and a mask similar to the "Star Wars" villain. He played eerie music but didn't say a word.

Customers were coming and going in the parking lot of a Home Depot near Detroit when a shoplifter suddenly came tearing across the blacktop and a female bystander pulled out a concealed pistol and fired several shots at him.

Local officials have begun blaming one another for the bizarre prosecution. Even the lawmaker who crafted the law says it's being misapplied.