ARCOLA - Following a nearly daylong hostage crisis at an Arcola bank Thursday, the suspect voluntarily surrendered. A law officer was shot, and people were robbed at gunpoint north of this Douglas ...

The standoff at an Arcola bank has ended at about 6:35 p.m. with the release of the last remaining hostage, Brad Pullen, manager of the Illinois Mid-Illinois Bank and Trust. The suspect in the ...

ARCOLA – As the drama of the hostage standoff at the First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust office in Arcola unfolded Thursday afternoon, residents gathered in clusters outside police barricades.

ARCOLA - A man wanted in an ambush ... p.m. when the suspect walked out of the First Mid-Illinois Bank and Trust, alongside the only hostage who hadn't already been released, State Police Sgt.

ARCOLA - A man wanted in an ambush ... p.m. when the suspect walked out of the First Mid-Illinois Bank and Trust, alongside the only hostage who hadn't already been released, State Police Sgt.

Brad Pullen, who was branch manager of the Arcola First Mid-Illinois facility and was held hostage the longest, said he doesn’t think the incident had much effect on the bank’s customers.

ARCOLA, Ill. – Two men wanted in an ambush shooting that critically wounded ... Four hostages had been released throughout the afternoon. The final hostage who emerged from the bank with the suspect ...