A US woman who had been missing for eight days was found alive in her car at the bottom of a ravine.

A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping mall, wounding at least six people, one critically, and taking three others hostage in a music store before he surrendered to a police commando team.

An exhaust centre shop owner who deliberately damaged buildings as he tore through town in an armoured bulldozer has been surrounded by officers determined to extricate him from the vehicle.

A businessman involved in a planning row barricaded himself inside a metal-fortified bulldozer and went on a rampage through a Colorado mountain town, firing gunshots and knocking down buildings.

A Minnesota state trooper has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly driving over a turkey before wringing its neck.