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Las Vegas police say a man has taken a woman hostage at the Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino LAS VEGAS -- A man has taken a woman hostage inside the Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas police said Tuesday. The man pulled the woman into a hotel room around 9:15 a.m., police spokesman Capt. Steve Connell said. A chair and other items were thrown out a broken window and landed in the pool area below, he said. Officers have secured the area outside the room, Connell said. No shots have been fired, and it’s not clear if the man is armed. Broken glass and furniture fell intermittently for about an hour from a window of the Palace Tower, said Associated Press writer John Marshall, who was on vacation with family. A hotel desk employee said the hostage was taken on the 21st floor and guests on other floors were not evacuated or restricted from movements, said Marshall, whose room is on the fifth floor. “It looks like he’s pretty much emptied the room of furniture,” Marshall said...

In his first television interview, an American missionary is revealing for the first time the full story of his capture by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists. In his first television interview, an American missionary is revealing for the first time the full story of his capture by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in Niger and how he managed to persevere through a harrowing 6 1/2 years as their prisoner. Jeff Woodke, a former worker for the United States Agency for International Development in the Central African nation, was taken hostage from his residence in Abalak on Oct. 14, 2016. He was finally released in March. Jeff and his wife, Els Woodke, are speaking with ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman in an interview airing in full on Thursday night at 7 p.m. ET on ABC News Live Prime. Jeff Woodke and his wife, Els Woodke, are seen in an exlusive interview with ABC News. ABC News On the night of his capture, Woodke says he was at his home when his civilian guard saw a vehicle drive up...

The parents of 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken hostage by Hamas at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, spoke with "Good Morning America." The father of 23-year- old Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who Hamas took hostage at the Supernova music festival in Israel, said he has gained some "strength" from seeing a video of his son on the day he was kidnapped. Hersh Goldberg-Polin is a "curious," "laid-back person" who "loves learning about people and the world," his mother, Rachel Goldberg, said on ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. When Hamas terrorists stormed the music festival on Oct. 7, the 23-year- old hid with a group in a bomb shelter, his parents said. The militants opened fire and threw grenades, and Goldberg-Polin's arm was blown off, his parents said. An aerial picture shows the abandoned site of the weekend attack on the Supernova desert music Festival by Palestinian militants near Kibbu...

A man wielding a chainsaw allegedly attempted to storm a Massachusetts police station on Sunday, then allegedly held two small children hostage at a nearby home. A man allegedly wielded a gas-powered chainsaw as he attempted to storm a Massachusetts police station on Sunday afternoon, according to the Cohasset Police Department. He then allegedly held two children hostage at a nearby home, according to police . A police tactical vehicle sits on a street in Cohasset, Massachusetts, in a photo supplied on Dec. 18 by the Cohasset Police Department. Cohasset Police Department Cohasset Police said Brien Buckley, 35, was arrested at around 9 p.m. on Sunday night after an hours-long standoff with a SWAT team, hostage negotiators and multiple local police forces. Buckley was arrested on multiple child engagement and property damage charges, as well as resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and other charges, police said. He's being held without bail, according to off...