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Alabama hostage ends with boy safe, Jimmy Lee Dykes killed
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Special Agent Jason Pack said in an email that it also appears 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes "reinforced the bunker against any attempted entry by law enforcement."
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Jimmy Lee Dykes holds 5-year-old hostage in Alabama
Conversations dragged into a fifth day on Saturday between police and a gunman accused of shooting a school bus driver to death Tuesday and holding a kindergartner hostage in an underground bunker.
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Alabama hostage situation: Jimmy Lee Dykes shoots bus driver, flees with 6-year-old passenger
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The standoff dragged on through the night and into the afternoon Wednesday after the gunman boarded a stopped school bus in the small town of Midland City on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
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Algerian hostage crisis: 12 hostages have died in the siege
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Algeria's state news agency says 12 hostages have been killed since the start of the operation to free workers kidnapped by Islamic militants at a natural gas plant in the Sahara.
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American hostages held by militants in Algeria
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An Al-Qaida-linked militant group claims it is holding seven Americans among 41 foreign hostages it has taken after occupying a natural gas complex deep in Algeria's southern desert near the Libyan border.
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Los Angeles possible armed robbery, hostage situation
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There is a possible armed robbery and hostage situation in Westchester, California, the Los Angeles ABC affiliate reported Friday morning.
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Suspect in Pittsburgh hostage situation posts to Facebook during crime
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The suspect in a Pittsburgh hostage case made Facebook posts during the five-hour ordeal Friday, authorities said, and they feared that responses from friends, family and others might goad him into violence.
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Denver Radio Shack hostage situation: Hostages held at Colorado store
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Denver Police say at least one person is being held hostage inside a Radio Shack electronics store after a botched robbery attempt, ABC 7 in Denver reports.
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Warren Weinstein video: American hostage video released by al-Qaida
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Al-Qaida has released a video of American hostage Warren Weinstein in which the 70-year-old humanitarian aid worker says he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.
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