Violence

CAIRO - Egypt's president declared on Sunday a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by the wave of violence that has left more than 50 dead in three days. Angry and almost screaming, Mohammed Morsi vowed in a televised address that he would not hesitate to take even more action to stem the latest eruption of violence across much of the country. But at the same time, he sought to reassure Egyptians that his latest moves would not plunge the country back into authoritarianism.

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CAIRO - Clashes broke out in the Egyptian coastal city of Port Said on Saturday, leaving at least 30 dead and several hundred injured, following a court verdict imposing death sentences on 21 people for killings during a soccer riot in the city last year. It was the second day of violence in Egypt after tens of thousands of protesters marking the two-year anniversary of their revolution clashed with police in cities across the country Friday, leaving at least nine people dead in the city of Suez and more than 260 others injured nationwide, according to state officials.

Paul Brown spent part of Christmas dying. Shortly after 4:40 p.m. that day, Norristown police found Brown in the driver's seat of a 1997 Buick sedan. The 24-year-old had been shot multiple times. The killing was part of an uptick in violence in Norristown beginning around October, according to local and state statistics. It's not outsiders, Norristown and county officials say, or Norristown's Mexican gangs causing these troubles in the Montgomery County seat. Rather, those in a subculture of African American men in their 20s are shooting one another in a demonstration of bravado.

The body was found in the dead of a winter night, a 19-year-old discovered shot to death on New Street in Coatesville, cash blowing around his body. "He had been shot going to buy drugs from another guy," said Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan. "That's a Coatesville homicide. " The slaying last Jan. 24 of Tre Davis would be the first of 2012, but by no means the last. Three months later, an 18-year-old was found shot on the steps of a brothel. And on June 29, Dominique Williams, 22, was shot to death in a house on Merchant Street.

Gov. Christie vowed last week to review New Jersey's mental-health services as part of a "violence control" plan following the Sandy Hook school shooting. Mental-health-care advocates say Christie could improve services by expanding programs that already exist, including Medicaid, and broadening the mental-health disorders covered under health insurance for state workers and public-school teachers. New Jersey is one of only eight states that do not offer workers equal benefits for mental and physical ailments, said Paul Lubitz, associate director of the New Jersey chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

I can tell that the controversial new NRA shooting-game app is popular for iPhone and iPad users because when I downloaded it last week, I was asked for a nickname and had trouble securing my first six choices. Maybe I should have known better than to think "eagleeye" was available. But I was surprised that "eagleeye1" and "eagleeye50" (a reflection of my age) were also gone. My patience thinning, I tried "justshootme. " No luck. Same with "justshootme1" and "justshootme50. " By now I was thinking, This is ridiculous.

TRENTON - Gov. Christie condemned the National Rifle Association on Thursday for a "reprehensible" online video that focused on President Obama's daughters, but refused to give his opinions on federal proposals to ban assault weapons and limit high-capacity magazines. Christie made his extensive comments on guns and violence Thursday at a Statehouse news conference where he announced a task force to examine "violence control" measures since the school massacre in Newtown, Conn. Led by two former New Jersey state attorneys general - a Republican and a Democrat - and made up of a school superintendent, mental-health expert, and two leaders of substance-abuse centers, the SAFE Task Force will have 60 days to offer Christie suggestions.

The Ralph Brooks play lot at 21st and Tasker features two basketball hoops, a few battered benches, and a forlorn swath of green. But what dominates this corner are the dead. Forty-six murder victims are listed high on the side of a nearby building under "Stop the Violence," a brutal billboard. The words failed. On the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, volunteers will start transforming the lot. Adé Fuqua, an assistant city managing director, is charged with helping Point Breeze: "Everybody had a similar desire to do something with this place.