All the rumors that are fit to spread

Police and other law-enforcement agencies responded to a report of a hostage situation at an office building two blocks east of the Capitol this morning. Eventually things got back to normal. From an AP story in the Jefferson City News-Tribune:
Police say the events apparently began when a woman in the building told of hearing someone in an elevator mention a hostage situation. She told another woman, who then called an alarm company, which called police around 10 a.m.