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A gunman who opened fire and took hostages in an Amarillo, Texas Wal-Mart Tuesday was shot dead by police a little over an hour into the incident.

It started out to be an innocent meeting, the kind of meeting we've all experienced before. But this meeting turned into being held hostage against her will!

Pizza may not be the best food for you, but it can save your life. Wait, what?

A number of police, including the West Dakota SWAT team, converged in South Bismarck Wednesday in answer to a bomb scare and apparent hostage crisis that all turned out to be a hoax.

There's another crazy story of captivity and this time it's centered around a house in Houston.

"Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," the young woman told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."

The man who held five firefighters hostage in Suwanee, Ga. earlier on Wednesday has been shot and killed by SWAT members. Four hostages are slightly injured, but authorities say they should be OK.

The nearly week long hostage situation in Alabama involving a five-year-old boy has finally come to an end.

On Tuesday afternoon, a man in Dale County, Alabama, near Midland City, got on a school bus, demanded a child be let off with him, then shot and killed the bus driver when he refused. The shooter, identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes, then took the boy from the bus and is currently holed up with him in an underground bunker nearby.