Deletion of Wytheville hostage incident

Comment: Minor local story that is almost the definition of . 28 articles in Google News does not prove notability; for comparison, there are currently 189 articles in Google News about the extremely minor and totally unencyclopedic snowstorm that hit here yesterday. http://news.google.ca/news/more?um=1&cf=all&ned=ca&cf=all&ncl=dKPqqIPaknfbpCMNF6a-GaVi2hD2M
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: There are currently 28 news stories cataloged at http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Wytheville+hostage&cf=all&start=0 Google News referring to "Wytheville hostage" over a span of three days. This constitutes significant coverage in mainstream media sources assumed to be reliable per . (Current sources include the New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, CBS News, and other known reliable outlets
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)