Within seconds of a person opening fire into a Minneapolis church where children were gathered for Mass, teachers acted as heroes, Annunciation Catholic School’s principal said Wednesday. “Children ...

Warning: Content in this story is graphic and may be disturbing for some readers. A gunman opened fire through the windows of a Minneapolis church Wednesday, shooting several children, killing at ...

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The two students killed in the Annunciation Catholic School mass shooting were an 8-year-old boy who loved to fish and cook and a 10-year-old girl known for her laughter and kindness. Fletcher Merkel, ...

At around 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, as students and parishioners gathered for Mass inside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, a shooter approached the side of the building and began firing ...

When I was a baby, Larry Hunt, a kind, funny Jesuit priest and my great-uncle, baptized me. At around age 12, I began attending Sunday Mass when my mom, then in her 30s, decided to cart her five ...

It was a mass shooting at a children’s Mass. Last Wednesday was the first all-school Mass for the first week of classes at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Maybe the little ones prayed for ...