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A dozen oil tanker rail cars burst into flames after two trains collided in eastern North Dakota on Monday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said this attack and one earlier this week show that "Canada is not immune to the type of terrorist attacks we see elsewhere."

Police declared the campus of Purdue University safe Tuesday afternoon, hours after a shooting in a school building alarmed students and sparked a partial evacuation order. One person died in the violence; another has been taken into police custody.

The students were in the gym, where they typically hang out before classes start during cold and inclement weather, she said. The 12-year-old pulled a shotgun and opened fire there at about 8 a.m.

The more than 3 inches of rainfall already recorded in the Phoenix region Monday represents more than a third of its normal annual total.

Loretta Lynch is the lead federal prosecutor in a district of 8 million people. But outside law enforcement circles, she isn't widely known. She'd be the nation's first black female attorney general.

A magnitude 6.7 aftershock rumbled the Nepalese capital and sent people running for open ground Sunday morning.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris says $24 million wasn't enough to tackle a backlog of people currently banned from having guns who may still possess them.

San Diego police are looking for at least two suspects in a series of attacks in North Park. They've released a sketch of one of the men.

A California playground embraces the value of wild play.