Anthony Sims

A Long Beach police officer who was shot in the head during a routine traffic stop remained in critical condition Saturday as authorities announced the arrests of two men they believe gunned him down to free a motorist the officer was holding in his patrol car.

A Long Beach police officer who was shot in the head during a routine traffic stop remained in critical condition Saturday as authorities announced the arrests of two men they believe gunned him down to free a motorist the officer was holding in his patrol car.

A 25-year-old man, one of three men whose bodies were found in the Angeles National Forest over the weekend, was identified Thursday as Michael Haines, 25, a former resident of Akron, Ohio. The stabbed and shotgunned bodies of Haines and Benjamin Velez, 33, of Baldwin Park were discovered at 2:30 a.m. Sunday by two men who stopped at a roadside pullout near East Fork Road and California 39, sheriff's deputies said.

No. 6 Tennessee seemed to have things well in hand Saturday night before No. 10 Georgia suddenly got back in it. Then the Volunteers' Leonard Scott took off, and Tennessee won, 37-20, at Knoxville, Tenn. Scott's 100-yard kickoff return came after Georgia had trimmed Tennessee's lead to 30-20 with 12 1/2 minutes left. "That was a huge lift. It was getting real interesting all of a sudden," Tennessee Coach Phillip Fulmer said.

Abel Dominguez has no recollection of the afternoon he sat in his police cruiser, writing a ticket, and got shot in the head. What happened Aug. 6 is not even hazy to him. "I have no memory of that day whatsoever--not from the time I woke up," he said. It was many weeks before the Long Beach police officer learned that he had been shot three times.

Abel Dominguez has no recollection of the afternoon he sat in his police cruiser, writing a ticket, and got shot in the head. * What happened Aug. 6 is not even hazy to him. "I have no memory of that day whatsoever--not from the time I woke up," he said. It was many weeks before the Long Beach police officer learned that he had been shot three times.

The marketing department at Starz has been using Dennis Hopper as the point man on its publicity for "Crash," the show based on Paul Haggis' Oscar-winning movie, which debuts as the network's first original drama series tonight at 10. This makes perfect sense, since Hopper, who recently made the news for being named a commandeur des artes et des lettres by the French government, still signals, at least by reputation, the reckless and profane poetry, the...