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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Police have arrested three people accused of shooting an Oklahoma City police officer Sunday night. Investigators say 27-year-old officer Katie Lawson had just finished helping an Oklahoma County Sheriff's deputy arrest a man, Hector Mercado, for DUI. Shortly after Lawson left that scene, someone with a gun opened fire on her car in the 3900 block of North Miller. Officer Lawson was hit, but managed to return fire and call for help. She's now in the hospital in good condition. Officers took three people into custody at the scene and questioned them. They later arrested 17-year-old Alex...

US troops ambushed amid drive to extinguish resistance?Soldiers are injured in guerrilla attack as Americans tackle renewed loyalist activity that has claimed 40 soldiers since 1 May By Patrick Cockburn in Baquba 16 June 2003 Guerrilla fighters ambushed an American convoy in a hostile region north of Baghdad yesterday, wounding several soldiers, as the US army stepped up search-and-destroy operations against fighters loyal to Saddam Hussein. The convoy was ambushed as the US military launched Operation Desert Scorpion, a mission intended to root out Saddam loyalists - including suspected foreign fighters - after a spate of attacks that have killed...

<p>Soldiers with the 507th Maintenance Company did not take a wrong turn in the early morning hours of March 23 when Iraqi soldiers ambushed them near Nasiriyah, a congressman who talked with two sergeants in the trapped vehicles said Thursday.</p>