International Business News - Standoff http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A standoff at a New Jersey bank is over after police learned a "person" seen inside was actually a full-size cardboard figure. Officers went to the PNC Bank in Montgomery Township on Thursday night after an alarm went off. They saw what they thought was at least one person through the windows of the bank, which had its blinds drawn. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/full-size-cardboard-figure-causes-nj-bank-standoff.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:07:12 EST A mother and an armed suspect died after a shootout involving police at a local home Tuesday. Loan Kim Nguyen, 24, was fatally wounded in the incident, authorities said. The suspect, whose name has not been released, was found dead. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/2-dead-after-police-standoff-in-san-mateo.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:23:19 EST Jewish settlers on Thursday spray-painted graffiti on a mosque slurring the Prophet Muhammad and defaced a Muslim cemetery, Israeli military officials said, threatening to worsen tensions in this volatile West Bank city. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/settlers-spray-inflammatory-graffiti-on-mosque.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:45:25 EST A gunman took his ex-girlfriend hostage Friday at a health clinic where she worked, allowed her to make a goodbye call to her family and killed her before police gunned him down, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/hostage-standoff-at-mo-clinic-ends-with-2-dead.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:31:01 EST Four tree-sitters who ended their occupation of a University of California at Berkeley oak grove this week have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/4-calif-tree-sitters-plead-not-guilty-in-court.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:24:49 EDT A 21-month occupation of an oak grove at the University of California at Berkeley has ended peacefully, but not without some dispute, as the remaining four tree-sitters descended from their perch and into police custody. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/127002-treesitter-standoff.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/last-tree-sitters-descend-from-uc-berkeley-grove.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/last-tree-sitters-descend-from-uc-berkeley-grove.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:20:58 EDT The four remaining protesters living in a redwood at UC Berkeley climbed down from their perch Tuesday, ending a 21-month occupation of a campus grove aimed at stopping construction of a new sports center. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/126830-treesitter-standoff.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/1-tree-4-protesters-left-in-uc-berkeley-standoff.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/1-tree-4-protesters-left-in-uc-berkeley-standoff.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:15:41 EDT A tree-sitting protest at the University of California, Berkeley, was whittled to one tree after arborists chopped down most of the disputed grove to clear land for a new sports center. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/126141-treesitter-standoff.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/1-tree-4-protesters-left-in-uc-berkeley-standoff.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/1-tree-4-protesters-left-in-uc-berkeley-standoff.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:55:58 EDT The University of California, Berkeley has begun cutting down trees at the center of a dispute over its plans to clear the area to make way for a new sports center. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/uc-berkeley-begins-felling-disputed-trees.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:38:14 EDT The University of California, Berkeley has begun cutting down trees at the center of a dispute over its plans to clear the area to make way for a new sports center. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/uc-berkeley-begins-felling-disputed-trees.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:03:58 EDT A man who held police at bay during a two-day Maryland motel standoff and his pregnant girlfriend, who claimed to be his hostage, both face charges, state police said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080823/man-pregnant-girlfriend-charged-in-md-standoff.htm Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:53:14 EDT A burglary suspect holding police at bay at a western Maryland motel threatened to shoot a police robot bringing food and ignored a recorded plea from his mother to surrender, police said Friday as the standoff dragged on for a day and a half. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080822/md-motel-standoff-continues-man-refuses-food.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:23:09 EDT Police ended a two-day standoff with a burglary suspect holed up in a motel with his pregnant girlfriend, bursting into the room and grabbing the man after he was brought food Friday, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080822/suspect-holds-authorities-at-bay-in-md-motel.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:45:11 EDT A burglary suspect wanted in four states was holed up Thursday in a western Maryland motel with a woman police believed was his pregnant girlfriend, and doctors were standing by in case she went into labor, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/man-in-motel-standoff-with-md-authorities.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:17:19 EDT In the morning, columns of Georgian police and military vehicles prepared to reoccupy the strategic town of Gori after the expected departure of Russian forces. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/108794-georgia-russia.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/russian-tanks-deter-georgian-entry-to-gori.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/russian-tanks-deter-georgian-entry-to-gori.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:59:28 EDT A SWAT team member killed a man who allegedly wounded the mother of his 2-year-old daughter and then held the little girl hostage for more than two hours at his home in Lynwood, Calif., Los Angeles County officers said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080811/swat-team-kills-socal-man-rescues-his-daughter.htm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:04:37 EDT The medical examiner in Missouri's St. Louis County has identified charred remains found at a burned house where a firefighter was killed as the body of the homeowner. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/burned-remains-ided-as-man-in-standoff-with-police.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:35 EDT A planned sports center at the University of California at Berkeley that ignited a tree-sitting protest moved a step closer to reality when a judge gave campus officials the go-ahead to build. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/judge-to-lift-ban-on-building-calif-sports-center.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:29 EDT Authorities on Tuesday recovered what they believe to be charred remains from the rubble of a burned house from which a gunman may have ambushed emergency workers, St. Louis County's medical examiner said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/95995-fire-standoff.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/investigators-find-possible-remains-at-mo-house.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/investigators-find-possible-remains-at-mo-house.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:17:37 EDT Prosecutors said Tuesday they want a 78-year-old man committed to a mental hospital after he was found incompetent to stand trial for killing two South Carolina law officers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/prosecutors-want-to-commit-man-78-in-cop-deaths.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:32:53 EDT