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LAST YEARS SHOOTOUT WINNER FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD WELCOME BACK RACEFANS FEBRUARY 7, 2009 ~ 8PM ET ON FOX The Budweiser Shootout, NASCAR's season-opening event, will return in 2009 as part of Budweiser's multi-year sponsorship renewal with Daytona International Speedway. Since its inception in 1979, the Budweiser Shootout has become one of the most anticipated events on the racing calendar for both drivers and fans. The race marks the start of a new NASCAR season and provides a benchmark for teams as they gear up for the annual Daytona 500. The race distance will be increased from 70 laps...

Violent Battle on Provincial Train By Jung Kwon Ho [2008-11-14 13:08 ] Shenyang, China -- A gunfight on October 22nd between train security agents and soldiers in Manpo, a border town across the Yalu River from Jian, China caused six deaths, it has emerged.

The FBI is investigating the exchange of gunfire between U.S. Border Patrol agents and suspected drug smugglers across the Rio Grande, officials confirmed Monday. The shootout occurred around 7 a.m. Monday just south of the small western Hidalgo County community of Abram. Local Border Patrol spokesman Dan Doty Action 4 News that agents were watching suspected drug traffickers attempting to cross a load of narcotics when they came under fire. The agents returned fire and the shootout lasted for about two minutes. No one on the American side was injured but it was unclear if anyone on the Mexican side...

CHICAGO (WBBM) ― Robbers invaded a Southwest Side jewelry store on Wednesday, triggering a gun fight. Four people, including the alleged robbers, were injured in the shootout. It was a wild scene near the corner of 63rd Street and Kedzie Avenue Wednesday evening when a pair of robbers pretending to be customers walked into Sergio V. Jewelry. But the robbers picked on the wrong guy. The store owner, Sergio Vasquez, is known around the neighborhood to be a man who doesn't put up with any nonsense at his shop. He was behind the counter when the robbers walked in. Chicago...

VAN BUREN - Two brothers are being held after a shootout with a Crawford County man who lawmen said caught them siphoning gas from his vehicle. Chadrick Holsted, 20, turned himself in about 5 p.m. Tuesday after authorities negotiated his surrender with his father, Chief Deputy Ron Brown said. His brother, Mark Holsted, was shot in the shoulder and leg late Sunday and was taken to St. Edward Mercy Medical Center in Fort Smith. He was listed in stable condition Tuesday, a nursing supervisor said. The brothers, of the Rudy area, will be charged with aggravated assault and theft, Brown...

SAHIWAL: At least 13 bandits were killed in a gunfight with villagers in a village near Sahiwal early on Sunday morning, police and witnesses said. More than 25 bandits robbed a house in Chak 135/9-L and were about to break into another one when villagers opened fire on them. At least 13 bandits were killed in the fight that lasted more than one hour. Twelve others, most of them injured, fled. Police said the bandits belonged to the Oar Gang, which was wanted by police in a number of cases. Police have seized the truck and car that they left...

WELCOME BACK RACEFANSDAYTONA SPEEDWEEKS: SCHEDULE Broadcast Schedule SPRINT CUP SERIES Feb 7 8:00P-9:00 - SPEED NASCAR Bud Shootout Selection Show Feb 8 4:00P-5:00 - SPEED NASCAR Sprint Cup PRACTICE #1, Budweiser Shootout 6:30P-7:30 - SPEED NASCAR Sprint Cup PRACTICE #2, Budweiser Shootout, Budweiser Shootout - FOX 8 p.m. ET Saturday Feb 9th Cup Series Qualifying - FOX 1 p.m. ET Sunday Feb 10th Gatorade Duel - SPEED 2 p.m. ET Thursday, Feb. 14

MEXICO CITY - A shootout between Mexican authorities and suspected criminals just across the border from Texas left three people dead and eight injured on Monday, officials said. Gunfire broke out around noon when Mexican federal agents encountered a group of people carrying assault weapons in a car in the town of Rio Bravo, across the border from Donna, Texas, according to a joint statement from Mexico's federal Attorney General's office, Defense Department and Public Safety Department. Three suspected criminals died and five soldiers and three federal police officers were injured in the shootout, which took place in Tamaulipas state,...

ODESSA, Texas - Two police officers responding to a domestic disturbance were killed and a third was critically wounded by a gunman who led Texas authorities on an hours-long standoff, authorities said. The suspected gunman in the shooting Saturday night, 58-year-old Larry White, will likely face two counts of capital murder and attempted murder of an officer, said Tela Mange, a Department of Public Safety spokeswoman.

BASTROP (TV8) - Morehouse Parish Sheriff Danny McGrew confirms two Bastrop police officers were shot and killed Friday afternoon in downtown Bastrop. McGrew says one suspect was also shot and killed. Two emergency medical technicians were shot and wounded. One was reported to be in surgery at Morehouse General Hospital. At least one other suspect was said to be in a standoff with police at the Best Budget Inn on South Franklin Street near the courthouse square. McGrew said the suspects were possibly persons of interest in a double homicide in Texas, but that was not confirmed. TV8 News reporter...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Hamas military commander was killed Tuesday in a shootout with Fatah gunmen shortly before the leaders of the two groups met to try to bridge their differences over a power-sharing deal. At least seven people were wounded in the gun battle in Gaza City. A spokesman for Hamas' military wing, Abu Obeidah, blamed the killing of Allah Haddad, 35, on the Preventive Security force loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. The security force confirmed that one of its people was wounded in a shooting incident, but said the matter was a family feud...

Video shows aftermath of store owner shooting 2 robbery suspects The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - A store owner shot two men who tried to rob him, killing one of them, in a confrontation that was partly recorded by a neighbor with a cell phone, police said. The two men entered the North Philadelphia store at about 6:40 a.m. Thursday and announced a robbery, after which the owner and one of the men exchanged gunshots, said city police Sgt. Ron McClane. A cell phone video shot by a nearby resident shows the aftermath outside the store, where the owner confronted one...

Mitchell Moua, 25, pulled a gun on police who tried to arrest him on several warrants, and fled, police spokesman Tom Walsh said. Moua exchanged shots with officers through the rear window of the SUV with Wisconsin license plates before the chase ended about 11:30 a.m. when the SUV crashed into several cars at Seventh and Arcade streets, on the city's east side, Walsh said. The Moua was taken to Regions Hospital. Walsh said Moua was originally sought on several charges, including aggravated assault, false imprisonment and a federal warrant for a weapons violation.

Watch it while you can: Police Shoot Out Caught on Tape. (MSNBC) Doesn't show the final end of the bad guy, but you can see that he didn't have much of chance...good thing he was a bad shot.

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A 92-year-old woman was shot to death Tuesday after she fired at three narcotics officers trying to serve a warrant at her house, officials said.

(CBS) NEW YORK A teenager was shot and killed in front of a Bronx Burger King and the manager of the fast-food restaurant is being charged with the murder. Police say 16-year-old Shaka Walcott was killed during a shootout with 45-year-old Ronald Johannes, who manages the Baychester Burger King. It's unclear how the gun battle broke out, but witnesses say Walcott was seen spitting in Johannes' face. The two had apparently been engaged in a dispute that had culminated for well over a week's time.

Shootout : Iwo Jima: Fight to the Death. Friday November 03 08:00 PM The Battle of Iwo Jima is best known for the famous flag-raising photograph taken on Mt. Suribachi, but there's an untold story behind the picture. Just before the photo was snapped, there was a bloody shootout on the mountain crest. This is just one of the true stories told by veterans of one of the Pacific's bloodiest battlefields, where 70,000 US Marines fought 21,000 entrenched Japanese over eight square miles of death. Follow the men of the 5th Pioneer Battalion as they fight off a savage, last-ditch...

A Hopkins man shot one of two intruders at his home on Dry Branch Way early Friday in an exchange of gunfire that also left him wounded, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. Both intruders face charges, but homeowner Alonzo Williams, 29, won’t be charged, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Lt. Chris Cowan said Friday. “We believe he shot him because he was in fear of his life and he was inside his residence and he was protecting himself,” Cowan said. Both Williams and the wounded intruder, Gregory Weaver, 21, are being treated at Palmetto Health Richland for non-life-threatening injuries, Cowan...

WASHINGTON, Sep. 4, 2006 – Iraqi police killed one of the most wanted insurgent leaders in the Euphrates River Valley during a Sept. 2 counterinsurgency operation in the city of Rawah, U.S. officials reported. Sadam Shihab Ahmad had played a key role organizing local anti-coalition operations, officials said. He also was suspected of involvement in the beheading of a Rawah policeman earlier this year. When Ahmad, along with an accomplice, saw Iraqi police approaching their position in Rawah, the two suspects attempted to flee in a vehicle, but the police blocked their escape route. A policeman ordered Ahmad and his...