Hostage Situations
MADRID - Spain moved Monday to win the release of 36 fishermen held hostage on a Spanish trawler off Somalia by indicting two captured pirates in a fast-track procedure so they can be returned to Somalia as demanded by the hijackers.
MADRID - A judge indicted two suspected Somali pirates captured in connection with the hijacking of a Spanish tuna trawler, moving Monday for swift resolution of a case that is prolonging the six-week hostage crisis.
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. - Police say a carpenter who brought a shotgun to an upstate New York middle school and held a principal hostage for more than two hours was upset by the treatment of U.S.
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. - A 42-year-old man sneaked a disassembled shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday, put it together in a bathroom, then held the principal hostage for more than two hours before surrendering without firing a shot, police said.
PHOENIX - A Mexican man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison in connection with holding illegal immigrants hostage last year in a Phoenix drop house.
