The two officers, fearing a hostage standoff, called for backup and did not enter the restaurant.

The hostage standoff continues as the militia waits for its ransom demand to be met.

"This was the first major hostage standoff of the cellphone age," Cullen notes.

At the height of the hostage standoff, Paulo had asked Jack how he could defend the guilty and still live with himself.

Nine people find their lives changed, shaken up and unhinged by the events in a 52-hour hostage standoff inside a bank.

A long hostage standoff began with Yacoub gradually releasing hostages.

The stations were covering a hostage standoff at a grade school in the Bronx.

During the hostage standoff outside the club, the three other gunmen inside slipped away, the police said.

On February 24, 1998 in Djikhashkari there was a four-day hostage standoff.

A messy manicure pales in comparison to an emergency call to a hostage standoff.