Man Kills Ala. Couple, Takes Teen Hostage
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A fugitive killed a couple working at a convenience store, then kidnapped the woman's 14-year-old daughter and was holding her hostage Friday at a motel, authorities said.
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A teen killer who told the parole board that he regretted letting eyewitnesses survive was executed Wednesday for a shotgun murder during a &#36;15 robbery.
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A group linked to al-Qaida and led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said yesterday that it had killed the second of two American hostages that it kidnapped last week.
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An inmate who escaped from a hospital Wednesday, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, was cornered hours later in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout, authorities said.
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A second teenager is charged with the murder of a young father who was shot dead near his home.
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Children say a man with a gun abducted a boy from a bus stop this morning. Sheriff Charlie Wells of Parrish, Florida, said 13-year-old Clay Moore was forced into a red or maroon truck by the kidnapper, who is either a tanned white or Latino man.
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Three people are charged with murdering a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed in Birmingham.
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Police say a teenager shot dead in his bed could have been murdered in a case of mistaken identity.
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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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LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, France  - A 16-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and then murdered by jilted boyfriend 27 years her senior whom he originally met after accidentally sending a text message to his cellphone, a public prosecutor said Sunday.
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An adult gunman took at least four people hostage at the high school in this tiny mountain town Wednesday and several shots were reported fired, authorities said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man convicted of murdering a couple who discovered him burglarizing their home in 1999 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday.
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An Iraqi extremist group linked to Al Qaeda said yesterday that it had killed a second American hostage, a day after a video recording showed
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline Tuesday, a statement  posted on the Internet and an Arabic channel said.
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A man claims he saw three men armed with a gun moments before two teenagers were shot dead.
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Police arrested two teenagers Thursday in the beating death of a 43-year-old man after the attack was captured by surveillance cameras outside a bar.
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Two gunmen crashed a girl's 15th birthday party early Sunday morning, shooting two teenagers to death and injuring another in a back yard crowded with revelers, police said. One suspect was in custody.