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WARSAW -- A gun-related competitive sporting event drew more than 300 competitors to Warsaw this weekend. Competitors from around Indiana and the country were on-hand for a prestigious firearms match Sunday. It was part of the 2011 United States Practical Shooting Association's Indiana Championship. To make the grade, you had to be on the move. “As you go through the positions, you're moving, shooting and reloading as you go through,” said Jake Martens of USPSA.” [You're]

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a man who brandished a board and later a handgun during an argument involving a group of people on a Kalamazoo street was beaten with the board. Police say they found the 36-year-old man with head wounds on Thursday night. He was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Witnesses told police the man had the board when he approached a group of people and got into an argument with them. After the board was taken from him he pulled out a gun, and one person from the group beat him over the head with it until he fell to the ground.

KALAMZOO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a handgun was fired into the air during a large fight outside a southwestern Michigan high school graduation ceremony. Police in Kalamazoo say the fight happened about 9 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of Wings Stadium, which was hosting Kalamazoo Central High School's commencement. No serious injuries were reported. Witnesses told police that a group of people showed up at the ceremony and tried to start a fight with some in attendance at the ceremony.

A 46-year-old Elkhart woman told police when she tried to unload a Ruger .22 caliber pistol Friday afternoon, it fired and the bullet struck her lower left leg. Police were called just after 1:30 p.m. to a house in the 23000 block of Rebecca Drive and found Tina Poe with a leg wound. Poe was taken to Elkhart General Hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury, according to an Elkhart County Sheriff's Department news release.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested an Oakland student, teacher and school counselor after finding a real gun among props that were being used to shoot a video in a public park about the dangers of gun violence. Oakland police said the group from the United for Success Academy middle school brought two replica weapons and the real gun to a public park on Saturday, alarming other people in the area. The student is in juvenile hall on gun charges, and the teacher and counselor were arrested and released for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

SOUTH BEND – South Bend police detained a 16-year-old Wednesday after finding a gun in his backpack and suspected marijuana in his pockets, police said. Police searched the teenager in the 2600 block of west Frederickson Street because he matched the description of a burglary suspect from the area, according to a police report. The suspect was taken to the Juvenile Justice Center, the report said.

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - Police say a 17-year-old accidentally fatally shot himself while playing with a gun during a celebration of the arrival of the New Year in Saginaw. The Saginaw News reports ( http://bit.ly/tWd4o1 ) Travon E. Price died after being shot in the head early Sunday. Police say he was playing with the gun inside his home after he and his 18-year-old brother had been outside firing into the air to mark the New Year. Police say Price didn't believe there were any bullets still in the revolver.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ja Rule is headed to a New York prison for up to two years in a gun case. The platinum-selling rapper and actor was sentenced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in December to attempted criminal weapon possession. Authorities said he had a loaded gun in his luxury sports car when it was stopped as he left a Manhattan concert in July 2007. Ja Rule was nominated for a 2002 best rap album Grammy Award for "Pain Is Love. " His movie credits include 2001's "The Fast and the Furious" and 2003's "Scary Movie 3. " He has been wrapping up a forthcoming album, "Pain Is Love 2. "

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - A Washington state man has been arrested on allegations that he pointed a handgun at a pregnant woman because she was smoking a cigarette. Bellingham police spokesman Mark Young says 24-year-old Justin Dain Palmer reportedly stopped his pickup truck Wednesday to shout at a smoker on a sidewalk, "Who the heck smokes when they're pregnant?" The woman replied, "I do. " Young says after more words were exchanged, the man pointed a handgun at the woman.

LAGRANGE COUNTY - Homeowners are being warned about a rash of daytime burglaries in LaGrange County. Police believe two groups of people have been breaking into homes, the latest of which happened Monday between 5 a.m. and 4 p.m. when 14 guns were stolen from a house in the 10000 east block of CR 375 N. A combination of handguns and long guns were taken. Detectives say a crowbar was used to break into the house. The sheriff's department is urging homeowners to keep a close eye on their surroundings and call in any suspicious vehicles, people, or activity they see. Anyone with information on this crime may contact the LaGrange County Sheriff's Department at (260)

KEWANNA - A Fulton County mother is lucky to be alive after her estranged husband breaks into her home and threatens to kill her. And we're learning this isn't the first time. The woman's boyfriend, Camron Vawter, a Kewanna firefighter, ended up shooting him. It happened just after midnight Monday at the home of Rebecca Righter on Toner Street. 17-year-old Cane Nilson says he was in the living room when his stepdad, Michael Righter, broke down the door, waving a gun. "I was laying on the couch and I looked at the clock around midnight, and I was getting ready to go to bed," said Nilson.

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - The Elkhart County sheriff told gun rights supporters at a weekend rally that he won't enforce any future laws that infringe on the public's right to bear arms. Sheriff Bradley Rogers told about 200 people, many of whom held signs and carried firearms during Sunday's rally, that he pledges to oppose all future gun legislation and not impose those measures on the community he serves. "I will not allow gun confiscation in my county and I will not enforce any additional antigun laws," he said to loud applause at the rally outside South Bend's Morris Performing Art Center.

The Sandy Hook massacre put the issue of gun control front and center - and while the issue is debated, one police department is taking action with a program to get guns off the street. The Michigan City Police Department is holding its annual "Get More Buck for Your Bang" event. If you have a gun you no longer want, you simply take it to the police department and give it up. You'll even get a little something in return. Michael Bechinske is giving up his gun. "It's just a .25 caliber raven,” he said.

Jayzahn Creel and Earl Hogan both received more than 35 years in prison for a home burglary where they pulled a gun. It happened last July at a house on West Jackson Boulevard in Elkhart. Two women and two children were home at the time. Police say at one point they put a gun to one woman's head and pulled the trigger - but the gun didn't fire. One of the women told the court today the four men involved, "put a face to the boogeyman and made him real" to the children.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A state lawmaker says Michigan should no longer let people openly carry guns into schools. Under existing law, people with concealed weapons permit may openly carry guns in schools and other gun-free zones in Michigan. But it's illegal to carry concealed weapons in those places. Democratic state Rep. Andy Schor of Lansing and Michigan's largest teachers' union say the open-carry "loophole" must be closed inside schools three months after the massacre at a Connecticut school.

SOUTH BEND - An update on that online Casanova case. The Marshall County man at the center of the case was back in court on Tuesday. Raymond Holycross is charged with theft. He's accused of using internet dating sites to scam women across the country. Police say he stole a camera from a Mishawaka woman and pawned it. Theresa Bridegroom is that woman. Holycross was living with her at the time. After becoming suspicious, Bridegroom did some internet searching.

SOUTH BEND - The controversial and emotional issue of gun control brought together a panel of advocates Sunday to debate the topic in South Bend. Among those weighing in was none other than Ron Teachman, South Bend's new chief of police. "I don't think gun deaths are natural and should be accepted in our society," Teachman said. That's why Teachman says everything should be on the table when discussing gun control including restricting or banning high caliber magazines and assault rifles.

LAKE STATION, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana teacher who wrote a threatening message on a chalkboard after having what students called a "meltdown" during class is the subject of investigations by police and school officials. WLS in Chicago reports ( http://bit.ly/162XEDs ) Lake Station police met Monday with students and officials at Edison Junior-Senior High School to discuss the message scrawled by the teacher last week. The message was in a multiple choice format, like on a test.