2 Wounded, 3 Taken Hostage at Airport

A gunman shot and wounded two people and took two others hostage at a rural Arkansas airport before surrendering after eight hours without further bloodshed, authorities said. A man believed to be Dennis Smith of North Little Rock drove onto an airstrip at Tillar and shot an agricultural pilot and the pilot’s assistant, police said. He then barricaded himself with the pilot’s wife and a second assistant in an office by the hangar, police said. Both of the wounded were taken to a hospital; the hostages were unharmed.