On Valentine’s Day 1929, four men connected with Al Capone’s Chicago gang killed seven rivals with Thompson machine guns, better known as Tommy guns. The bloody massacre shocked the nation, making ...

TOKYO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The number of shootings in Japan rose in 2007 for the first time in six years, police said on Thursday, in a review of a year that included the assassination of a city mayor ...

An icon of gangsters and G.I.s that once spat rapid-fire violence is going to the aid of Rock Island County's cats and dogs. A model 1921 Thompson submachine gun has been sitting in the Rock Island ...

When five armed gunmen stormed the Karen residence of Pembe Millers director Ahmed Salim last week, they did not expect the tide to turn on them. When the guns fell silent, a gangster lay dead and ...

CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth.