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"8:40 a.m.: Witnesses said the deputy was shot twice in the upper torso and was bleeding heavily. Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies have brought in an armored vehicle."

Fresno, Ca.-Fresno Police opened fire on a man who allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo bank at gunpoint on Saturday.

had a gun to his head earlier, tossed gun.. may be connected to fatal shooting last night in Torrance

Fleeing truck kills motorist Driver of stolen pickup eludes police, rams cars, broadsides father of three at cross street By TATABOLINE BRANT and KATIE PESZNECKER Anchorage Daily News Published: February 1, 2006 Last Modified: February 1, 2006 at 03:04 AM A father of three small children was killed Tuesday when the driver of a stolen pickup, who had rammed half a dozen other vehicles trying to get away from police, slammed into a sedan at a high speed at a Lake Otis Parkway intersection, police said. The stolen truck had eluded them for miles, officers said, and they had shot...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier opened fire on a group of fellow soldiers during a morning exercise session at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on Thursday but no one was injured at the Army base. The soldier, whose name was not released, "is in custody after firing shots at a physical training formation" but no one was wounded, Fort Campbell said in a statement. It provided no other details but said the matter was under investigation. The facility, on the Kentucky-Tennessee border about 60 miles northwest of Nashville, is home to the 101st Airborne Division that has served in Iraq.

Press Release - Customs and Border ProtectionNogales Agents Come Under Fire1135 Pounds of Marijuana SeizedTucson, AZ -- On November 11, 2004, agents assigned to the Nogales Border Patrol Station disrupted drug smugglers as they attempt to drive two drug filled trucks across the international border.At approximately 12:00 p.m., a Border Patrol Agent observed two trucks drive north through the desert across the border near the Buena Vista Ranch, east of Nogales. As the two trucks traveled north away from the border, a third truck joined them. The third truck was being utilized as a scout (lookout) by the drug smugglers.Agents...

Pistol-packing Senior Chases Off Mugger, Gets Charged for Unlicensed Gun By Marcus Solis (Bronx-WABC, November 5, 2003) — A mugger in the Bronx got quite a surprise when the 80-year-old man he attacked in an elevator pulled out a .38 caliber handgun. There was a struggle, a shot was fired, and now the elderly victim is being criminally charged. Marcus Solis is in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx where he talked with the man. Lester Campbell says the gun belonged to his mother, and that it was passed onto him when she died. And he said he would...

Spencer now facing only one charge for incident By Nate Searing Herald/Review SIERRA VISTA -- American Border Patrol President Glenn Spencer will be arraigned in Justice Court 5 in Sierra Vista Tuesday after a being formally charged with felony disorderly conduct last week. Spencer, 66, picked up his summons for the charge from the Cochise County sheriff's office in Sierra Vista on Wednesday. A grand jury indicted him on Aug. 22. The charge stems from an incident on Aug. 1 in which Spencer allegedly fired a gun near his home at Equestrian Avenue and Yaqui Street. The shots, which came...

Shots fired on U.S. forces in Kuwait 10/14/2002 Associated Press KUWAIT - Shots were fired from two civilian vehicles Monday at U.S. forces in a northern Kuwait training area, according to U.S. officials. There were no injuries, they said. The U.S. military unit did not return fire. The shooting occurred at 7:50 a.m., according to a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. A military official at Camp Doha, where U.S. forces are stationed in the emirate, confirmed the incident and that nobody was hurt, but would not release any further details. The U.S. military and the Kuwaiti Defense...