Maryland Paper Shooting

The 38-year-old gunman who carried out a deadly assault on a newspaper office in Annapolis had barricaded a back door in a bid to "kill as many" as he could," authorities said Friday, confirming he first made threats against the paper years ago.

A local newspaper targeted in a shooting that left five dead managed to publish on Friday, covering its own tragedy and leaving its editorial page blank in honor of those slain.

In the shade of a car park in Maryland's capital Annapolis, three journalists from the Capital Gazette typed grimly away -- still without news of colleagues killed or injured when a gunman stormed the publication earlier Thursday.

Three days after six teachers and 20 students were killed by a rampaging gunman at their elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, an 8-year-old from Maryland pulled out a sheet of paper and asked President Barack Obama for "some changes in the laws with guns."

The 38-year-old gunman who carried out a deadly assault on a newspaper office in Annapolis had barricaded a back door in a bid to "kill as many" as he could," authorities said Friday, confirming he first made threats against the paper years ago.

A local newspaper targeted in a shooting that left five dead managed to publish on Friday, covering its own tragedy and leaving its editorial page blank in honor of those slain.

In the shade of a car park in Maryland's capital Annapolis, three journalists from the Capital Gazette typed grimly away -- still without news of colleagues killed or injured when a gunman stormed the publication earlier Thursday.

Three days after six teachers and 20 students were killed by a rampaging gunman at their elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, an 8-year-old from Maryland pulled out a sheet of paper and asked President Barack Obama for "some changes in the laws with guns."