A mechanised rodeo bull valued at more than £7,000 is stolen from a marquee.

Corruption allegations taint the re-election campaign of Montana's Republican Senator Conrad Burns.

As the rodeo season gets under way, Tira Shubart reports from a rodeo school in Colorado where novices can try their hand at the cowboy sport.

There is no more potent a symbol of early America than the image of Cowboy settlers fanning out across the Great Plains - taming the bison and subduing the once proud Native Americans. But times are a changing.