Georgia officials won't say why a gunman took four of local firefighters hostage in a Freddie Mac-owned house on Wednesday afternoon, but based on that Freddie Mac detail, you can venture a guess.
We're a full day into the ongoing Alabama hostage situation, and the child is safe as far as authorities know, but more details have trickled out about the unstable man behind the disturbing crime, including accounts that he was a "survivalist" with anti-American views.
Police and FBI negotiators are still in a standoff with a man who murdered a school bus driver before kidnapping a six-year-old child and holing up in an underground shelter.
The Algerian military says it's searching the premises after a confusing day, leaving the rest of us to figure out what the French operation in Mali has to do with possibly hundreds of people fending for their lives, complete with escaping hostages (some of them American) who may have had explosives strapped to their chests, plus helicopters, a U.S. drone, angry Brits, and more.
A dangerous standoff is taking place at a gas facility in the Sahara Desert, where Islamic militants are holding dozens of oil company employees hostage, and Algerian soldiers have attempted to free them.
The scene in Bulomarer, Somalia on late Friday night was like the end of Zero Dark Thirty gone terribly awry, as a clandestine hostage extraction mission turned into an hours-long shootout.
Details are still coming out, but an ugly hostage situation in Aurora, Colorado -- the town where James Holmes opened fire on a crowd at a Dark Knight Rises screening this summer -- ended with at least four people dead Saturday morning.
The hostage situation that unfolded in Pittsburgh on Friday had a unique voice commenting on the action: That of the alleged hostage taker himself, who has been keeping his Facebook page updated as police try to talk him into releasing the victims. The page is offline but we've got screen shots.
The Navy SEAL raid that freed an American and a Dane from Somali captors spooked other Somalis holding an American, who now say they'll kill the hostage if they're attacked.
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