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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The children were still sleeping when gun-toting men on motorcycles arrived at the Catholic boarding school in the early morning hours Friday, witnesses told friends and family ...

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped several students and staff from a Catholic school early Friday, marking the latest attack on a Christian institution. Nigerian news outlet Arise TV said 52 children were ...

Two dozen schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state last week have been freed, according to officials, as the country grapples with a wave of mass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

More than 300 children and a dozen teachers were taken from St. Mary’s School in north-central Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Saturday. Armed men reportedly stormed the ...