Gunman holds 2 hostage at Chicago Bank
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A gunman took at least two people hostage Wednesday during an attempted bank robbery outside Chicago, authorities said.
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A gunman shot and killed two people, wounded another and then fled with a hostage on Friday night, police said.
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A gang held the families of two Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before stealing more than 20 million pounds (&#36;39 million) in one of Britain's biggest ever robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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BELFAST, Dec. 21 -- Thieves took hostage the families of two top bankers and forced the officials to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank&#39;s main office, authorities said Tuesday.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed robbers held more than 30 hostages at a bank in central Venezuela in a standoff with hundreds of police that stretched into a second day on Tuesday with little sign of a breakthrough, officials said.
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A gunman opened fire inside a high school outside of Denver today and was holding several students hostage, the police said.
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Police free a man at a hotel in Milton Keynes after he was taken hostage in the Limehouse area of London.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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An armed man took two girls hostage at a   Colorado high school on Wednesday, fatally shooting one of the   students and then himself when police stormed the classroom   where he was barricaded, authorities said.
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An armed man took a female hostage  at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but he was  shot by police and the woman escaped unharmed, according to  television video.
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A shooting suspect holed up inside a central Illinois bank with hostages Thursday after a sheriff's deputy was shot in the face a few miles away, authorities said.
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Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman â-he second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad â - militants released a tape Wednesday showing the beheading
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A gunman fatally shot five women in a robbery at a store in a suburban Chicago strip mall and fled Saturday, prompting police to sweep through neighboring shops as terrified customers watched.
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Two people were in custody Sunday following a shootout between two groups of people that left two men dead and a third man wounded, police said Sunday.
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The gunman who took students hostage at   a Colorado high school and killed a girl was a 54-year-old man   who lived out of his car and sexually assaulted at least one   hostage, police said on Thursday.
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, as violence continued in Iraq.
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A gunman inside a Colorado high   school has taken people hostage and says he is carrying a bomb,   MSNBC Television reported on Wednesday.