RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) — A gunman fatally shot a woman, injured a man and then led police on a wild chase through the Mojave Desert with two hostages in his trunk on Friday before he was killed in a shootout with police.

James Lee DiMaggio fired his rifle at FBI agents before they killed him deep in the Idaho wilderness, authorities said Monday.

Israeli troops opened "retaliating" fire at targets across the Syrian border with Syria later claiming it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle stationed in Golan Heights.

The nephew of a small-town mayor shot and killed five people, including two boys.

The harrowing images, taken by a resident of the suburban Watertown street shortly after midnight on Friday, show the Tsarnaev brothers clearly taking aim at police officers as they shelter behind a vehicle.

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Residents have described the terrifying scenes in the Watertown as police engage in a shootout with men suspected bombing the Boston marathon.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) issued an emergency alert at 10.48 p.m. on Thursday night reporting that shots had been fired and that an officer was down.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Nearly a week after the chief of Colorado's prisons was fatally shot at his front door, investigators have matched the gun in his slaying to one used by the prime suspect in a shootout with Texas authorities.

An ex-convict who died in a roadside gun battle with Texas police was being investigated for possible links to the deaths of a Colorado prisons chief and a pizza delivery man, law enforcement officials said.