NATIONAL BRIEFING / NORTH DAKOTA

A nearly 14-hour standoff on a ranch ended with the arrest of two men who escaped from a rural Alabama prison more than 1,200 miles away, a federal law enforcement official said.

Joshua Southwick, 26, and Ashton Mink, 22, were apprehended after two shootouts with North Dakota law enforcement, nearly two weeks after their escape from the Perry County Detention Center in Uniontown, Ala. Also taken into custody were two women who authorities said helped the men escape -- Mink’s sister and wife, Angela Diana Mink and Jacquelin Rae Kennamer Mink, both 25.

The four had eluded law enforcement in at least seven states until a robbery at a video store in North Dakota around midnight Friday. The fugitives, who are suspected in the robbery, fled the scene and then holed up in an outbuilding on a ranch in Dickinson, N.D., said the law enforcement official.