MI: Woman kills man in self defense: "A couple's fight turned deadly in the city of Saginaw overnight. It happened on the 2300 Block of Hanchett on Saginaw's west side around 1 a.m. This is not the first time police have visited the home. This is the city's 13th murder of 2006. But this one is not like any of the previous 12. One reason is that the prosecutor will not file charges against the woman who pulled the trigger. That woman turned herself into police after she admitted to shooting 27-year-old Damion West once in the chest, killing him. Prosecutor Mike Thomas says the woman acted in self defense and a source close to the investigation says West had a history of assaulting the woman. That fact also weighed into the prosecutor's decision. The victim in this case was actually wanted by Saginaw police as well. He was facing three counts of attempted murder in connection with a shooting on Porter Street in Saginaw just two weeks ago. West also had numerous closed cases in the Saginaw County court system dating all the way back to 1996.




SC: Store owner shoots at robbers: "Mary Todd is the first to tell you - she takes safety into her own hands. "I don't keep a gun on me, but there's one always with hand's reach," she says, nodding towards a silver pistol. Just a week and a half ago, the owner of Todd's Food Store in Beech Island was forced to put it to use. On the afternoon of June 16th, three masked gunmen walked into the store, while a fourth waited in the car. "They started grabbing customers, putting them on the ground, sticking guns to their heads and so forth," says Investigator Chuck Cain with the Aiken County Sheriff's Office. Investigator Cain says the crooks would have succeeded if it weren't for Mary. As one of the men tried to kick in her office door, she fought back. "I shot my gun through my little office window," she says. Adds Cain, "Right then the boys were like, 'We're getting shot at, we're outta here.'" In the end, the only thing the men got was out without getting shot. Now, investigators hope one of them slips up and talks about it."