A manager was taken hostage at a bank in Orange County this morning. An armed suspect walked into Saehan Bank in Buena Park around 11 am today and ordered everyone to leave except a manager, according to City News Service. more ›

The man accused of killing local couple Jean and Scott Adam after hijacking their yacht in the Gulf of Arden has pleaded guilty in a federal court in Virginia, according to the Associated Press. Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali of Somalia is "among 15 suspects from Somalia and Yemen facing charges related to the February hijacking of the yacht Quest." more ›

Southern Californian couple Scott and Jean Adam are among the four dead aboard the Quest, the American yacht hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Arden, reports the LA Times. Negotiations were underway between the pirates, who were holding the Adams and Seattle-based couple Phyllis Mackay and Bob Riggle hostage, and U.S. military personnel when shots were fired. Both couples on the Quest were shot dead by their captors. more ›

Police have arrested a man that held his mother-in-law hostage for six hours in a Hollywood home, according to CBS Los Angeles. LAPD was alerted to the situation by a domestic violence report made around 12:30 p.m. and their arrival at the home led to a standoff that ended once SWAT teams arrived at 6:30 p.m. The man and his mother-in-law were not injured in the standoff and he was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats. It is unclear why the man held her hostage and his name has not been released. more ›

What is being described as a "hostage situation" has the area of Pico Blvd. at Robertson locked down to traffic. Based on some accounts from people near the scene, the incident involves is near the Starbucks at 8783 W. Pico [map] which has since been shut down. more ›

An 11-hour standoff between a man and Pasadena SWAT ended early this morning when the man, who was injured with two gunshot wounds by police at some point during the situation, surrendered himself. Carlos Artivia, 45, was holding his 9-year-old son inside on the 1500 block of North El Molino Avenue. On Sunday evening, LA County SWAT killed a man who shot and injured his wife and was holding his 2-year-old daughter hostage inside his Lynwood home. more ›

A hostage situation led to the death of a suspect in Lynwood, a suburb just south of Los Angeles, last night. Around 9:00 p.m., sheriff's deputies responded to a call and found the wife of the suspect shot and wounded outside of her house. Inside, her husband had taken their 2-year-old daughter hostage. At 11:30 p.m., SWAT entered the household, shot and killed the man and rescued the daughter who was unharmed, according to the Associated Press. more ›

Update: The robbery occurred when an employee was approached by the suspect in a bandana and a gun at the garbage dumpster. He was forced back inside where five other employees were. The problem came when the employees and suspect couldn't speak each other's languages. That's when employees bolted, according to ABC7 11:00 a.m. news. Three ran upstairs and hid in the female bathroom and the other three hid downstairs. It is suspected that the robber fled the scene sometime after this happened.