Wal-Mart Employee Attacked, Abducted
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A young woman was abducted from a parking lot while leaving work at a Wal-Mart, apparently shoved into her own vehicle by a man who ran up behind her, authorities said.
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Two Italian women and two Iraqis, all working for a humanitarian group, were kidnapped Tuesday afternoon by gunmen who forced their way into a building in a middle-class neighborhood.
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Police shot and critically wounded a carjacking suspect who ran into a crowded casino early Friday and took two patrons hostage.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A Filipino working for a Saudi company was among a group of people kidnapped at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
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Gunmen kidnapped an American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents abducted the local director of CARE International from her car in Baghdad on Tuesday, targeting a charity worker who for decades championed ordinary Iraqis. In new violence, mortar attacks killed an American contractor and at least four Iraqi National Guard members and wounded 80 Iraqis, the U.S...
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker helping to administer anti-poverty programs in rural Afghanistan has been kidnapped, his employer said Sunday. It was the latest in a string of abductions of international workers here.
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Gunmen stopped a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants, shot some and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three people dead and two wounded, authorities said.
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A bomb threat that caused the evacuation of a Wal-Mart and led employees to wire $10,000 to the caller appears to be part of a broader scam targeting other businesses around the country, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American and three other foreigners were kidnapped Monday from their office in western Baghdad &quot;in an exchange of fire,&quot; the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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Gaza City - A group of men armed with assault rifles and revolvers kidnapped an employee of US television channel CNN in Gaza City late on Monday, CNN and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD - An American civilian, a Nepalese man and at least two Arabs were abducted Monday by a band of gunmen who stormed a Baghdad home with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and a machine gun mounted atop a pickup truck.
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A gunman opened fire inside a grocery store Sunday afternoon, injuring two women and taking one of them hostage before police shot him to death, authorities said.
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DALLAS -- Near the end of her short life, Shayla Stewart, a diagnosed manic-depressive and schizophrenic, assaulted police officers and was arrested for attacking a fellow customer at a Denton Wal-Mart where she had a prescription for antipsychotic medication.
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Gunmen attacked two oil installations in southern Nigeria, kidnapping two senior Nigerian employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners, security officials and colleagues said Monday.
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GUNMEN stormed a mobile phone company office in Baghdad and seized two Egyptian employees, Government officials said today. The kidnapping happened last night in the upscale Harthiya neighborhood, said Interior
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ELKHART, Ind. - A woman heading home from a store was surprised to find a man accusing her of stealing his van. The 71-year-old woman was leaving Wal-Mart about 9 p.m. Saturday with her great-nieces and great-nephews when a man walked in front of her van, forcing her to stop.