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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.

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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.

A jury in Canton, Ohio, has reached a verdict in the trial of former police officer Bobby Cutts Jr., who is accused of killing his pregnant lover, Jessie Marie Davis, and their unborn child.

A Chicago probate court judge Friday declared millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett dead five months after he disappeared while on a solo flight over the Nevada desert.

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Mothers cradle children in their arms. Fathers smile softly at the helpless bodies they hold. Other parents are bent over from the weight of their teenage kids whose legs fall limp, almost touching the ground. In the absence of basic medical equipment, these parents do this every day.