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EDWARDSVILLE — A Madison man charged last week in the shooting death of a Texas...

Two of them. one died on an operating table. his parents had to come identify his body and the other never got off the dance floor. their organs were perforated. their bodies were torn apart. that is the human cost, the reality, of what these weapons do. no amount of copy/pasting, gun-lobby talking points is going to change that. and no insulting comparisons to a swiss army knife is going to take away the pain that these weapons have caused so many people in this country. californias assault w...

>> reporter: in the pink ear muffs, thats robin armstrong. just bought her first gun. >> i bought a springfield xd, 9 millimeter. thats my first one but i do plan on buying two more. >> reporter: america is on a gun-buying spree. >> we have seen record numbers for the past few months and i fear thats going to continue. >> reporter: the government doesnt keep a tally but the fbi counts presale background checks, not perfect. but shows the pattern. take march, 2019. 2.6 million. march 2020, 3.7 mi...

In the left-hand turn waiting to go westbound, a person on foot came up to them tearing a springfield xd .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun and opened fire on the vehicle. luckily -- i want to repeat luckily -- our officer was only hit in hand. it could have been much, much worse. our suspect took off in an eastbound direction. the officer that was not struck was able to get out of the car, that being the driver of our patrol vehicle chased after this suspect and was able to apprehend anymore a p...

marketsite. "american morning" starts right now. >> no vote on the debt plan again. im christine romans. as the u.s. economy lurches closer to a financial crisis, the political crisis continues. house speaker john boehner calls off a vote, unable to convince hardline conservatives in his party to sign on to his plan. >> im kiran chetry. more than 90% of texas is now in extreme drought. the state could sure use a lot of rain and now tropical storm don is expected to make landfall along ...

delayed. police in texas say a muslim american soldier confessed to plotting an attack on ft. hood just two years after a muslim officer shot to death 13 people on that same base. tropical storm don could hit the south texas coast tonight and drought-stricken farmers are welcoming the prospect of up to 7 inches of rain. we begin with that sobering reality check on the debt crisis and just how daunting the challenge has become. in less than four days, the federal government could ru...