Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: July 26 The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, on Sen. Barack Obama's meeting with troops in Iraq: There's been so much attention paid to the political jousting between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama ...

A man armed with a shotgun opened fire in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Sunday, killing two people and injuring six others, local television reported. The gunman, later identified as Jim Adkisson, 58, opened fire on parishioners attending a service at a Unitarian Church, Knoxville City Councilman Joe Hultquist told WBIR television. A group of children were singing when ...

A gunman opened fire at a church youth performance Sunday and killed two people, including a man who witnesses called a hero for shielding others from a shotgun blast. Seven adults were also injured but no children were harmed at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Church members said they dove under pews or ran from the building when the ...

A Tennessee city official says a second victim has died from injuries suffered in a shooting at a church youth performance. Knoxville spokesman Randall Kenner says 61-year-old Linda Kraeger died at University of Tennessee Medical Center on Sunday, several hours after the shooting. Sixty-year-old Greg McKendry died earlier in the day. Fifty-eight-year-old Jim Adkisson is in custody and charged with ...