A distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office and demanded to speak to the presidential candidate about access to mental health care. The hostage drama dragged on for nearly six hours until he peacefully surrendered.Shortly after releasing the last of at least five hostages unharmed, a man who police identified .....

I was horrified over the Punjab government's decision to provide members of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), a religious body, with gunmen and red beacon lights on their vehicles. These symbols of authority are said to be a reward to the SGPC members for their "loyalty" to chief minister Prakash Singh Badal. The loyalty factor never gets satiated and would demand more and more as the days go by.

At the age of 15, Samantha Walker was lured into prostitution on the streets of Toledo, Ohio, then taken against her will to Atlanta. What makes her story different from thousands of others is that she testified against one of the men who paid for sex with her, helping to send him to prison.But just weeks after the trial she took an overdose of drugs she was taking for depression and died at the age of 18.