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A gunman opened fire at a casino, a center for the homeless and other locations before being killed by police early Monday morning.

The most rain in St. Louis in more than 100 years reports over 10 inches in under five hours. The rains caused flash flooding — closing major roads and leaving many stranded in their cars on roads.

French scientists report that two boys treated with gene therapy for a rare but fatal genetic disease have shown improvements. These results mark a high point for the field of gene therapy. Shown here, the area of the brain that was treated.

Critic David Edelstein says the Lord of the Rings director has violated Alice Sebold's celebrated novel with an adaptation marked by tawdry sentimentality and cheap mysticism.

Company officials say the cap is keeping oil from gushing for the first time since April -- the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to control the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Engineers dialed down the flow to test the cap and are monitoring the pressure to see if the broken well holds.

But the jurors also told a Chicago judge that they have been unable to reach agreement on some counts and have not discussed many others, as the case moved into the 12th day of jury deliberations.

BP is monitoring its new cap around the clock to see whether it can keep oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. But even if the cap is deemed a success, the oil effort could take several different directions.

The latest figures show that the homeless population decreased slightly last year. Other good news in the report: Chronic homelessness was down. But the number of families on the streets rose 7 percent. The new statistics come a week before the Obama administration plans to announce a national strategy to fight homelessness.

The Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune in North Carolina is becoming one of the largest solar panel communities in the United States. Solar energy can heat up to three-quarters of the water used in a typical household.

Contrary to what scientists expected, it turns out that people with stronger taste sensations, called "supertasters," love lots of salt. The new findings help explain why some have to work harder than others to cut back their sodium intake.