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An Upstate New York man is finally free after spending more than two years as a Taliban hostage.

The Otsego County Sheriff's Office has arrested an Otsego County man on several charges while the victim is hospitalized in a Central New York trauma center with multiple fractures and contusions.

HIGHLANDS, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man is accused of holding an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in an upstate motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks.

SYDNEY (AP) — Police say a hostage situation in Sydney is over after a swarm of heavily armed police stormed a downtown cafe where a gunman had been holding an unknown number of people.

A jihadist group has just released video showing the beheading of a French citizen who was abducted this weekend in Algeria.

A Watson man was arrested after allegedly shooting his son and taking his wife hostage on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The release of a freelance reporter who had been held hostage for nearly two years by an al-Qaida-linked group in Syria comes just days after the U.S. was rocked by the beheading of another American journalist by Islamic militants.

PARIS (AP) — The French president's office says that a priest kidnapped in Cameroon in mid-November has been set free.

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.

Authorities at this hour say they are still trying to free a six year-old boy being held captive by a gunman in Dale County, Alabama.