It could have been much worse in the United States. On Sunday, Sept. 8, many church prayers included thanksgiving for deliverance from Hurricane Dorian, which could have been another Katrina or Maria. Dorian did spin into the Carolinas, flooding towns and shooting off tornadoes, and at least four people died while preparing for the hurricane.

Picture yourself as a board member of the National Religious Broadcasters, an association of 1,100 member organizations that attempts to “communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world,” according to its website.

Important work. Potentially life-changing work. With headquarters located blocks from the U.S. Capitol, NRB has marketed itself as being to the First Amendment what the National Rifle Association is to the Second. U.S. presidents have spoken at NRB’s annual convention.

Attorneys for the U.S. Navy and a Naval Academy midshipman are wrangling over reporters’ rights in a rape case in which only one of three original defendants still faces charges.

A few years ago, acquaintances of an unidentified college student noticed odd behavior. He developed an interest in firearms, created a shooting range in his basement with pictures of his roommates as targets, and began abusing animals.

His roommates told college officials, who alerted the FBI, according the agency’s Andre Simmons. The FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center analysts approached the man and persuaded him to admit himself into a psychiatric facility.

As the communities of Sparks, Nev., and Danvers, Mass., mourn the deaths of two teachers, police are trying to piece together clues to why students committed the killings.

Michael Landsberry, 45, survived four years of active duty as a Marine and two tours in Afghanistan with the National Guard. But early Monday morning the math teacher and sports coach walked onto the outdoor basketball court at Sparks Middle School after he saw 12-year-old Jose Reyes open fire on other students.

Hours after his shooting rampage at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater killed 12 people and injured 70, James Holmes sat in a police interrogation room answering detectives’ questions. Meanwhile, officers tried to disarm the complex booby trap Holmes had left at his apartment, according to The Denver Post. A tug on fishing line tied to Holmes’ front door knob would mix a concoction of chemicals and set the entire apartment complex on fire.

Reading the messages of “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the administrator for an encrypted black-market website that has generated billions of dollars in revenue, is more like reading the script for a modern suspense film.

“I would like to put a bounty on his head if it’s not too much trouble for you,” he allegedly told one associate in what the FBI said was a murder-for-hire scheme. “What would be an adequate amount to motivate you to find him? Necessities like this do happen from time to time for a person in my position.”