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EPA fugitive who shot at officers expected to change plea A Utah fugitive critically injured March 10 during a shoot-out with law enforcement officers in a Marathon trailer park is expected to avoid a trial by pleading guilty today.Larkin Baggett, 54, formerly of Salt Lake City, was shot in the neck and buttocks after he allegedly pointed an assault rifle at a Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputy and three U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agents.Baggett was the first man shot by EPA officers in that organization's history.A change of plea hearing is scheduled today in the courtroom of U.S. Judge Michael...

SEATTLE - A woman wounded in last month's deadly shooting rampage at Seattle's Jewish Federation offices says she hopes the attack helps the public and lawmakers see a need for tighter gun control laws. "How and why the murderer who invaded my workplace a couple of weeks ago was able to legally acquire two semiautomatic weapons in our state is still a very disturbing mystery to me," Dayna Klein, 37, said Thursday, seated next to her husband at a news conference in a downtown hotel. Klein said she met with former President Bill Clinton last week while in New York,...

DOJ REAFFIRMS CONSTITUTION PROTECTS INDIVIDUAL RIGHT TO ARMS U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson sent gun-ban extremists into a state of virtual "collective" apoplexy when he submitted the federal government`s briefs in two cases that are up for consideration by the Supreme Court of the United States. Why? Because the filings state the federal government holds the accurate view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right. This position was also spelled out last year in a letter from U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to then-NRA-ILA Executive Director James Jay Baker (the Ashcroft letter was also included with Olson`s filings),...