Supposedly told in Rashomon style, Vantage Point tries to give the audience a feel for a crime from every conceivable perspective, but in the end, it overreaches its bounds.

Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic "The Golden Notebook," won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. The judges praised her "skepticism, fire and visionary power."

28-year-old Russell Fortman was swimming after his boat on Saturday night. People heard him yell for help before he disappeared.

Dive teams along the Columbia River near Vantage said wind gusts of up to 45 mile an hour hampered their effort to find a man, from Tacoma, who went into the river to get his boat that floated away. He never returned to shore.