Police in Tuscaloosa say a man was arrested after a hostage situation near the University of Alabama, and that all the hostages are reported unharmed.

Police in Oregon have been left baffled after an entire house was robbed. Not the contents of the house - but the actual building.

Police in a Chicago suburb say a 90-year-old woman has apparently been living in a house with the bodies of three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early 1980s.

Police in Fredericksburg, Virginia, say there has been a shooting at a petrol station in the area where a sniper has killed seven people since October 2, CNN said.