Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was severely wounded two years ago in an Arizona shooting, is launching a group aimed at curbing gun violence and raising enough money to challenge the well-funded gun lobby. Giffords, starting the effort called Americans for Responsible Solutions with her husband former astronaut Mark Kelly, told ABC News that…
Democratic U.S. Representative Ron Barber, a former aide to Gabrielle Giffords who was wounded alongside her in a deadly 2011 shooting, claimed victory on Saturday after edging Republican Martha McSally to win a full term in Congress. Barber, 67, who won a special election in June to finish out Giffords’ term, was running to represent…
After 22 months, Suzi Hileman finally got to step into a courtroom and confront Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman who killed six people and wounded her and 12 others who had come to meet with U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a Tucson Safeway on Jan. 8, 2011. “I have wanted to speak to him since…
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords stood in federal court to face her would-be assassin on Thursday moments before he was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people and wounding 13 others, including Giffords, last year. Jared Loughner, 24, a college dropout with a history of psychiatric disorders, received seven consecutive life terms plus…
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has moved home to Tucson. Giffords has spent the last nearly 18 months in Houston, where she has been undergoing rehabilitation after being shot during a constituent event in Tucson in January 2011. Giffords resigned from Congress in January 2012 to concentrate on her rehabilitation, she will continue her therapy…
A college dropout pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona last year. Jared Loughner, 23, pleaded guilty to 19 criminal counts, including murder. He entered his guilty pleas in federal court in Tucson shortly after he was ruled…
Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and wounding then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, is set to plead guilty in a Tucson court on Tuesday, a person familiar with the case said. The source confirmed that the federal government believed Loughner was now competent to stand trial and will argue that in…
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) bravely led the pledge of allegiance at a emotional vigil that drew thousands on the first anniversary of the shooting rampage that wounded her and killed six others. The still-recovering lawmaker needed help from her astronaut husband Mark Kelly to lift her right arm to her heart. But she spoke clearly…
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