Wal-Mart wins court ruling against union

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has won a court injunction to keep union organizers out of its 3,200 U.S. stores, and company officials said Saturday they hoped the union abides by the order.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Jessica Moser said Wal-Mart employees have asked the company repeatedly since 1999, when the union activity began, to stop members of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union from "harassing them."

A permanent injunction issued Friday by Chancery Judge Jim D. Spears should help resolve the issue if union organizers will comply with the order, she said.

Injured man shoots at would-be rescuers

ROSWELL, N.M. -- A man injured in a house explosion shot at his rescuers, killing a paramedic and a neighbor and wounding the fire chief and a child before committing suicide Saturday.

Police said they do not know any motive.

The shooter, whose identity was not released, had suffered burns in the house fire and had sought help from his neighbor Randy Houghton, said Officer Robert Giles, a police spokesman.

Steve Lovato, an emergency medical technician, and other fire officials were treating and questioning the man around 2 a.m. when he began shooting. Lovato and Houghton were killed.

Roswell Fire Chief Louis Jones and a 4-year-old boy who was in the home were wounded. Both were airlifted to a Lubbock Hospital. Jones was in critical condition after surgery. The condition of the boy was not released by the hospital.

Family, friends, searchers mourn slain San Diego girl

SAN DIEGO -- Family and friends of a slain girl gathered Saturday to remember Danielle van Dam for her typical childhood pursuits, including hiking in nearby canyons and helping her mom in the kitchen.

More than 1,000 people attended the memorial in La Jolla Shores, an oceanside park Danielle's father said was one of her favorite places. Many mourners knew the girl only through her gap-toothed smile on thousands of missing person fliers.

"Danielle, we miss you," classmate Michelle Wintersteen told mourners at a park overlooking the Pacific Ocean. "The school misses you. The community misses you."

Danielle, 7, was abducted Feb. 1 from her family's home. A massive volunteer search combed the desert east of San Diego for weeks before her body was found along a rural road Feb. 27.

Rescuers search for two buried in avalanche

SALT LAKE CITY -- An avalanche fell in the backcountry near a Utah ski resort Saturday afternoon, and two people were missing, authorities said.

The two, believed buried in the avalanche, were in a party of eight who were skiing and snowboarding, said sheriff's spokeswoman Peggy Faulkner.

The avalanche happened near Pioneer Peak, off Brighton Ski Resort property, Faulkner said. She said the party kept in contact with authorities using cell phones as they searched for the skiers.

A team of 14 officers, four dogs and two helicopters went into the mountains to help search, officials said.

--From wire reports