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bate over border security.
• "There are strong preliminary indications that the death of United States Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie and the injury to a second agent was the result of an accidental shooting incident involving only the agents," FBI Special Agent in Charge James L. Turgal Jr. said in a statement Friday.
• Turgal didn't elaborate on its conclusions but said the FBI is using "all necessary investigative, forensic and analytical resources as it investigates the Tuesday shooting about five miles north of the border near Bisbee.
• Ivie was killed after he and two other agents responded to an alarm triggered by a sensor aimed at detecting smugglers and others entering the U.S. illegally. Another agent was wounded but was released from the hospital after surgery. The third agent was uninjured.
• Federal investigators used ballistic testing to determine the shootings likely resulted from friendly fire, according to the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, which is assisting the FBI in the probe.
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• ATLANTA (AP) -- Worried that more debris could fly out of the stands, St. Louis players scrambled off the field and launched a wild-card celebration in the safety of their clubhouse.
• Players danced in a happy huddle. Champagne was sprayed. Then someone yelled "Infield fly!"
• Those were words that only the Cardinals could celebrate on this night.
• Matt Holliday homered and St. Louis rallied from an early deficit, taking advantage of three Atlanta throwing errors -- the most crucial of them by the retiring Chipper Jones -- to beat Kris Medlen and the Braves 6-3 in a winner-take-all wild-card playoff Friday.
• The defending World Series champion Cardinals will open their best-of-five division series against the Washington Nationals on Sunday in St. Louis. The Braves were one and done in this shortest of postseasons.
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