Hostage

A Fairhaven man is in custody after barricading himself in his home off of Sconticut Neck Road Sunday morning.

WBSM News is live on the scene of a reported hostage situation in Fairhaven on Winsegansett Avenue on Sconticut Neck.

Wareham Police and neighboring law enforcement agencies are responding to a motel where an occupant has reportedly barricaded himself in a room.

A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. The attack left about 50 people dead and more than 50 others wounded ...

Two fugitives wanted in Wednesday's attack on a French magazine say they want to "die as martyrs."

A flurry of loud bangs erupted as a swarm of heavily armed police stormed inside a downtown Sydney chocolate cafe where a gunman had been holding an unknown number of people hostage for more than 16 hours. The police swooped in shortly after five or six hostages were seen running out of the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in downtown Sydney early Tuesday morning...

President Barack Obama says he authorized the attempt to rescue American Luke Somers in Yemen because the U.S. had information that the American photojournalist's life was in imminent danger.

Law enforcement officials are continuing to negotiate with at least one hostage-taker for the release of two children and two adults he is still holding inside a house in the southern Chicago suburb of Harvey. The standoff began at 12:45 p...