TWO DRUG OFFICERS SHOT, WOUNDED IN REMOTE SOUTHERN OREGON

TILLER, Ore. (AP) -- Two narcotics officers were shot and wounded Friday as
they attempted to serve a search warrant at a home near this remote
southwestern Oregon town. Their conditions was not immediately known.

The officers from the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team were serving the
warrant at 12:45 p.m. when "they were involved in a shooting with at least
one occupant of the residence," said a release from Douglas County
sheriff's office. Details of the investigation were not immediately
released.

More than a half-dozen police cars, ambulances and a rescue helicopter were
sent to the heavily wooded area about 25 miles east of Tiller on the edge
of the Umpqua National Forest.

The officers were expected to be airlifted to Mercy Hospital in Roseburg,
about 45 to the northwest.

Diane Farris, postmaster in Tiller, said she saw six police cars heading to
the area soon after Friday's shooting. She said this is the most commotion
she's seen in her 14 years in the unincorporated town, which consists of
little more than a church, a tavern, a store, a post office and a few
scattered homes.