Shooting Range

A fire tore through an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea, killing 10 people, including at least two Japanese tourists. Some people were on fire as they ran out of the building, Yonhap news agency quoted a witness as saying. An official at the National Emergency Management Agency said authorities were having trouble identifying the dead because of their burns. Nine Japanese tourists and their South Korean guide were inside the facility in the southeastern port city of Busan when the fire broke out on the second floor of the five-story building.

Football great Joe Montana and his wife, Jennifer, have listed their 500-acre estate, with acreage in Sonoma County's wine country, for $49 million. The Calistoga property includes a 9,700-square-foot Tuscan-inspired main house, an equestrian center, two year-round creeks, a pond, a regulation-sized basketball court, a skeet shooting range, a caretaker's residence, a guesthouse, a swimming pool with a spa, a gym, a boccie ball court and a producing olive farm. FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version of this story referred to the estate as only being in Sonoma County.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office is considering whether to file criminal charges against the Redondo Beach Police Department after hundreds of potentially hazardous lead bullet fragments from its firing range were found at a nearby elementary school and in the surrounding neighborhood. Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the district attorney, said Monday that prosecutors were "looking at specific criminal violations" and were continuing to review the material.

Blackwater Worldwide, the global security firm whose conduct in Iraq has drawn criticism, is again trying to open a training facility in the face of local opposition. In March, the firm dropped plans to build a 220-acre training camp in rural Potrero, about 45 miles east of downtown San Diego. A coalition of rural property owners, environmentalists and antiwar activists opposed its effort to build a "combat town." But the coalition did not know that Blackwater was simultaneously moving to open a smaller facility with a shooting range in Otay Mesa, within the city limits and near the Mexican border.

The quarrel between black power advocates that ended in gunfire in a UCLA classroom had lasted only a few moments that sunny day. But the controversy over who was responsible for the murder of two young men taking part in a discussion over leadership of a fledgling black studies program at the campus has simmered for nearly four decades. On Thursday, aging leaders of the 1960s Black Panther Party returned to the site of the Jan.

As Larry Lee Risser Jr. told the story, it was a desperate time, requiring desperate measures. He and his fellow CIA operatives had been ambushed while on a clandestine mission in an undisclosed location. Risser had taken a bullet in the stomach, and his team leader was dead. To extricate themselves, they needed money, and fast. So Risser placed a call to George Rice, a friend whom Risser had told about his secret life as a "spook." He told Rice he needed $10,000 for a helicopter and a pilot.

Southern California environmental groups have criticized an attempt by the FBI to build a permanent shooting range on land near the retired El Toro Marine base that once was designated to become part of a national wildlife refuge. The land -- which has been used as a temporary training facility by the FBI since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- was included in a 1996 agreement that created a 37,000-acre nature reserve stretching from the Santa Ana Mountains to the Orange County coast.

Darren Collison doesn't surprise himself a lot. He expected to step immediately into the UCLA point guard job vacated by Jordan Farmar and run the Bruins. He expected to be the kind of harassing defender that makes opposing coaches yell at the game film beforehand and congratulate Collison afterward on his long arms and active defensive presence. Collison did not, however, expect to be leading the Pacific 10 Conference in three-point shooting percentage in league games.

What do you do when you've got only eight hours to plug 5,000 bullet holes and your work crew is standing around shooting the breeze? One thing you don't do is try to fire them up with the cry, "C'mon, guys, get the lead out!" Not if you're a 14-year-old who has lured three dozen other teenagers into helping repair and repaint a police firing range in San Pedro. Not if you don't want your buddies to bail before the job is done.