Fifty of the 303 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school on Friday have escaped and are now reunited with their families, officials said Sunday, as schools across Niger remain closed ...

Gunmen kidnapped 25 girls from a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State and killed at least one staffer, authorities said Monday. The schoolgirls were taken around 4 a.m., and no group immediately ...

A Birmingham salon owner and two employees are under arrest after a dispute over the cost of a client’s braids was recorded and went viral on social media. Aissatou Camara, 32, Julia Ondo, 30, and ...

A Beaver County woman escaped a kidnapping earlier this week by jumping out of a car stopped at a red light in Pittsburgh, police said. The couple accused of abducting her has been arrested and jailed ...

REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON HAS MORE ON THE CASE TONIGHT. DETECTIVE DAVID MAZUREK TELLS ME THE VICTIM WAS ALLEGEDLY KIDNAPED AT HER HOME IN ALIQUIPPA AT GUNPOINT, TOLD SHE WASN’T GOING TO SURVIVE, AND ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Honolulu police have arrested a suspect wanted in a robbery and kidnapping case following an incident at Nimitz Beach on Nov. 24. HPD said around 7 p.m., a father and his two ...

An MS-13 associate was convicted of first-degree murder last week in the savage 2023 slaying of a teenage girl who was lured from New Jersey to Maryland before her body was dumped in a freshly dug ...

ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — Two people are behind bars in Beaver County after police say they kidnapped a woman and threatened to have her killed. It all started in Aliquippa, Beaver County on Monday afternoon ...

Armed bandits kidnapped more than 300 students at a private Catholic school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, authorities say, the latest in a spate of mass abductions and attacks that have ...

A woman who was kidnapped, drugged and being trafficked stabbed her captor and fled on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Wednesday, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by police. Police ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped at least 227 students and teachers at a Catholic school in the northwest on Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said, ...

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country. By Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief, ...