Six-hour standoff ends with Mississippi officer dead

JACKSON, Miss. – Law enforcement officers in northeastern Mississippi stormed a house today after an hours-long standoff with a gunman holed up inside, leading to a shootout that left one officer dead and three others wounded, authorities said. The man suspected of firing on the officers was also killed. The standoff started Friday afternoon when authorities responded to a domestic dispute call at the home near Iuka, a small town in rural Mississippi, authorities said. But the man, holed up in his home with his wife and 10-year-old daughter, refused to come out, sparking the standoff with officers outside, said Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain. Strain said the man...