INW: Service Held For Trooper

Funeral services were held today for Montana Highway Patrol Officer David DeLaittre, 23, who was killed killed Wednesday in an apparent shootout after he stopped to investigate a truck parked in the middle of a road outside Three Forks, Mont. Story here .  (AP Photo/Montana Department of Justice)

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