• TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A standoff with an armed man who took multiple hostages inside a Trenton home has ended and three children are safe, police said early Sunday.
• Word of the confrontation's conclusion came a short while after the standoff, which had had prompted the evacuation of nearby homes, entered its third day.
• "The Trenton hostage situation is resolved, the three children are safe, and the area is secure," state police Sgt. Adam Grossman told The Associated Press, delivering a joint statement also from Trenton police and county prosecutors.
• He refused to reveal any more about the standoff, including how it ended, what became of the gunman, any information about the children, and if there were any other hostages.
• Grossman indicated that more details will be released at a news conference later in the morning.
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• OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) -- A body recovered amid an intensive search is believed to be that of a missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men on a Kansas farm days ago, authorities said Sunday.
• Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said in a statement that remains recovered in eastern Kansas on Saturday are believed to those of Lana Leigh Bailey, a child authorities previously reported as presumed dead.
• "It is with great sadness that I report a body found in Osage County, Kansas, is believed to be the remains of 18-month-old Lana Bailey," Richards said in the state

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