At least three men accused of making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie have been arrested in separate incidents in the US, underscoring filmgoers’ anxieties and heightened security in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Colorado cinema showing the film.

AT least 122 firearms from a botched US undercover operation have been found at crime scenes in Mexico or intercepted en route to drug cartels there, according to a Republican congressional report issued last night.

A GUNMAN opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a US university yesterday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history.

A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a US university today, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history.

An explosives-sniffing dog died after he fell more than 50 feet during a security sweep to prepare for a US professional basketball game.

More than 7,000 people who should have been barred from buying guns were able to buy them in 2002 and 2003, according to a US Justice Department review.

Washington police have linked yesterday’s shooting of a bus driver to the sniper.

WHEN it hit him, the .223-calibre bullet was moving about 2,000mph, and as it entered his body, it splintered.

POLICE are searching for a white van seen leaving the Prince William County gas station where a man who may have been the ninth victim of a sniper terrorising the Washington area was fatally shot Wednesday night.

ANXIOUS parents accompanied their children to school or kept them at home on Tuesday, a day after a sniper linked to the murder of six adults critically wounded a school pupil.

THE president of a counter-terrorism consulting firm has been charged with possessing 2,352 unregistered small military missiles.