About 50 employees held hands and lined across a department store's entrance Thursday before parting to let a crowd of holiday shoppers enter for the first time since a gunman killed eight people there 15 days earlier. ...more

December 21, 2007

Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. And nearly 40 years after they went to high school with him, friends remember Gary Joy as a quiet and shy gentleman. ...more

December 10, 2007

Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims. ...more

December 8, 2007

The Von Maur department store in December is so full of holiday spirit that one real estate agent took a job wrapping gifts: not for the money but just to be part of the cheery bustle. ...more

December 7, 2007

A gunman in camouflage and wielding a rifle opened fire in an Omaha mall crowded with holiday shoppers Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding five others, before turning the gun on himself. ...more

December 6, 2007