Law enforcement officials in Las Vegas announced Friday that they have closed their investigation into the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, but they could not explain what drove a gunman to unleash a hail of gunfire from a hotel room that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more. An extensive investigation found no evidence of a conspiracy or a second gunman. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Stephen Paddock was “an unremarkable man” who showed signs of a troubled mind leading up to the Oct. 1 shooting into a concert crowd of 22,000 people.

Two Minneapolis police officers who shot and killed a black man were justified in using deadly force, a prosecutor announced Monday. Police body camera footage showed the officers chasing 31-year-old Thurman Blevins, who ignored repeated commands to put his hands up.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the emeritus archbishop of Washington, D.C., following accusations of sexual abuse. The Vatican announced Saturday that Francis ordered McCarrick to a “life of prayer and penance” even before a church trial is held. A Catholic University canon law expert, Kurt Martens, noted this was the first time an order of penance and prayer had been issued before a church trial took place.

A Houston jury took just 35 minutes this week to find a Jordanian immigrant guilty in the honor killings of his daughter’s husband and friend in 2012. Prosecutors said Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan plotted the murders after his daughter, then 24 years old, ran away and married a Christian man, Coty Beavers. Irsan, his wife, and his adult son were all charged in the murders, but his wife, Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh, testified against him in exchange for a lesser charge.

A police bullet killed the supermarket worker who died in a gunbattle at a Los Angeles Trader Joe’s on Saturday, Police Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday. Melyda Corado, 27, was leaving the store Saturday as the suspect, Gene Evin Atkins, 28, was entering the building after firing two rounds at police officers pursuing him. The two officers each fired back, and one of their rounds went through one of Corado’s arms and into her body.

A man’s feud with his grandmother that turned into a deadly hostage situation at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Los Angeles may have been brewing for weeks, relatives said Sunday. Authorities have charged Gene Evin Atkins, 28, on suspicion of murder. 

When the 1849ers heard of gold nuggets and dust in California hills and streams, they scrambled for mules, pickaxes, and mining pans. Now that California and Canada have legalized recreational cannabis use, and many states are rushing to do so, the 2018ers are scarfing marijuana domain names, hiring MBA grads, and staking claims for their special brew of THC-infused beer.