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Police rescued seven people from an apartment building after exchanging gunfire in an overnight standoff with an armed intruder who was later found dead, apparently killed by officers' bullets.
A renowned Buddhist teacher has decried the eviction of his followers from a monastery in southern Vietnam, and Vietnamese intellectuals have issued a petition to support them, an unusual move in this communist country where free speech is restricted.
Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher who were forced out of a Vietnamese monastery over the weekend have taken refuge at a nearby pagoda, but they say they have once again been surrounded by police.
Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher say police and an angry mob have forced them out of a monastery in central Vietnam, ending a religious experiment in the communist country that turned into a monthslong standoff with authorities.
Prosecutors have dropped a weapons charge against the ex-girlfriend of former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Cedrick Wilson stemming from a standoff at his former home last year.
Police in Galveston, Texas say three people died in an apparent double-murder suicide after an eight-hour, overnight standoff with authorities.
A northwest Washington man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while hunting an opossum that had been snatching his chickens.
Authorities were investigating a possible murder-suicide on Tuesday after three people were found dead in a barn in rural northeastern Tennessee following a standoff with police.
An 80-year-old West Tennessee woman and her son are being held in jail after deputies said she shot at them when they came to arrest the man. Sheriff Melvin Bond said the elderly woman fired several shots at officers Friday night in a standoff that began when deputies tried to capture her 60-year-old son.
A man who staged an hours-long standoff near the West Los Angeles Federal Building has been charged with threatening to blow up the White House.
Monks following a world-famous Buddhist teacher are being evicted from a Vietnamese monastery for failing to clear their activities with the government, an official said Tuesday, but he denied the dispute was about religious freedom.
Armed men who allegedly held 12 suspected illegal immigrants in a Brownsville house for several days while trying to get money from their relatives were arrested Monday after a three-hour standoff with police.
Officials have found a man's body inside a mobile home in Southern California that burned after sheriff's deputies tried to serve a restraining order and an eviction notice.
A man who didn't get his nightly telephone call from his mother while she was traveling mistakenly claimed his neighbors had kidnapped her and stormed into their house to kill them before police officers shot him dead in a bloody standoff, authorities said.
The California Highway Patrol says a man who held his wife and three children hostage on a freeway has surrendered.
A man convicted of attempted murder and assault for firing at a SWAT team and wounding an officer in Washington state has been sentenced to 120 years in prison.
A police standoff that ended in the apparent suicide of a motorist shut down a ramp at a busy freeway intersection for more than 12 hours Saturday, authorities said.
An armed embezzlement suspect wanted by police surrendered Friday morning after an 11-hour standoff in a holding cell at an Atlantic City casino.
Salt Lake City police were in a three-hour standoff outside a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out there was nobody inside. The standoff started Thursday after police got a report from a woman living inside the house that she thought she saw her roommate's estranged boyfriend enter the shed with a gun.
A standoff at a New Jersey bank is over after police learned a "person" seen inside was actually a full-size cardboard figure.
A mother and an armed suspect died after a shootout involving police at a local home Tuesday.
Jewish settlers on Thursday spray-painted graffiti on a mosque slurring the Prophet Muhammad and defaced a Muslim cemetery, Israeli military officials said, threatening to worsen tensions in this volatile West Bank city.
A gunman took his ex-girlfriend hostage Friday at a health clinic where she worked, allowed her to make a goodbye call to her family and killed her before police gunned him down, authorities said.
Four tree-sitters who ended their occupation of a University of California at Berkeley oak grove this week have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges.
A 21-month occupation of an oak grove at the University of California at Berkeley has ended peacefully, but not without some dispute, as the remaining four tree-sitters descended from their perch and into police custody.
Woman with gun causes 5 hour Standoff in SanfordThe PIO for Seminole County Sheriff says the woman, whose family calls her Diane, was inside the home when she fired a gun.
Standoff ends with SWAT marksman killing suspect When police arrived at the Spinnaker Reach Apartment complex early Sunday morning in response to a call about a party that had turned violent, Christopher Reynoso - the subject of the call - told officers that the situation wouldn't end well. It didn't.
N. Korea sentences 2 U.S. journalists to 12 years in jail - Los Angeles TimesNorth Korea continues to test the resolve of the world. Unbelievable.
Toddler hostage standoff ends in shooting A distraught father described as suicidal and threatening a "bloodbath" was shot by police after holding his 20-month-old son hostage Friday. The toddler is OK.
Woman taken for mental evaluation after five-hour standoff (Video Report)---Video Report to the right on link page.--- Excerpt: It started as a couple of officers responding to a neighbor disturbance call, near Harmon and Decatur on Saturday shortly after noon.
Dallas cop pointed gun at football player's wife during hospital traffic stopThe pro running back who was detained by a Dallas officer as his mother-in-law was dying said he feared for his wife's life during the ordeal. "I was afraid for her because he was pointing a gun at her," Ryan Moats told ABC-TV's Good Morning America.
Police find no one in shed after 3-hour standoffSalt Lake City police were in a three-hour standoff outside a shed behind a Salt Lake City home before finding out there was nobody inside.
DA To Review Point Breeze SWAT Standoff ShootingA district attorney will determine whether Pittsburgh police were right to kill an armed man in his Point Breeze apartment after a 10-hour standoff.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Hoax Call Hyped by Media Almost Move Hostilities to BrinkA hoax phone call from India to Pakistan's President threatening military reprisals in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Mumbai city, hyped up by media, brought the nuclear-armed neighbours close to conflict.
New Jersey SWAT Team in Standoff with Cardboard CutoutA group of cops in New Jersey looked like turkeys Thanksgiving night after an hourlong standoff at a bank with an armed "bandit" that turned out to be a life-size cardboard cutout of a man.
The good news is that the deadly standoff is now over in Mumbai [Bombay] It seems to me that most of the turmoil of today is caused by those claiming to act on behalf of Islam.
Is the Fourth Estate a Fith Column?: Corporate media colludes with democracy's demiseOur media institutions, deeply embedded in the power structures of society, are not providing the information that we need to make our democracy work. To put it another way, corporate media consolidation is a corrosive social force.
West has lost nuclear standoff with Iran - AhmadinejadIran's president said on Wednesday that the West had lost the confrontation with Tehran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. More Articles and Seeds From blinkin
HOW ABOUT A GAS BOYCOTT? Is it true that if the American people decided to stop buying gas – period - the oil and gas companies would have no choice but to lower the price of gas because they produce so much that they would have no place to put or store the gasoline?
Residents show clamping crew just how it feels to be trapped It will go down in motoring folklore as the great Southend stand-off — the day when the humble car owner finally defeated the mighty clamper.
Report: Chinese destroyer forced 28-hour standoff with Kitty Hawk battle groupA Chinese attack submarine and destroyer shadowed U.S. warships in November in the Taiwan Strait, sparking a 28-hour standoff that brought the group to a battle-ready halt in the tense waters, a report in a Taiwan daily said Tuesday.
After 192 Days, Belgium Has a Temporary GovernmentCaretaker Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt managed to hammer out a deal allowing for a three-month interim government and a little breathing space for the country's divided political parties.
Suspect arrested in Clinton office standoffA tense standoff at a presidential campaign office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Rochester, N.H., ended shortly after 6 p.m. this evening as an unidentified man who had held at least four people hostage was taken into police custody. There were no apparent injuries.
Pencil-Wielding Teen in StandoffPolice said in a report: "An altercation ensued in which Lohf armed himself with a sharpened pencil." Staff members tried to talk him into giving up the pencil over a period of about 30 minutes but the teenager continued to make threats to staff, saying he would stab and kill the …
Tax dodgers taunt police from hilltop compoundTo avoid serving prison sentences for tax evasion, Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, have locked themselves off from the world on their own terms.
Reason Magazine - Desert Autonomous ZoneSomewhere in the northern New Mexico desert, a grizzled gardener called Robbie is praising the prickliness of his home. "The cops don't like to come out here," he says proudly, "and this place is built on being left alone by the authorities.
Just in: N Korea ''not planning more (nuclear) tests''Kim Jong-il told a visiting Chinese envoy that North Korea did not plan to conduct a second nuclear test, South Korea''s Yonhap news agency reports.
China may pay dearly for its support for a nuclear North KoreaChina may have the most influence of any nation over Pyongyang, but North Korea's nuclear test illustrates the failure of Beijing's diplomatic approach, analysts say. China has been North Korea's main ally for more than half a century, a relationship cemented in blood when Ch …
Mideast violence may raise odds of US attack: experts | Top News | Reuters.comThe Bush administration's tacit support for Israeli military strikes on Lebanon may have increased the danger of militant retaliation against the United States and U.S. interests abroad, some experts say.U.S.
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