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• BC-US--School Bus Driver Shot,ADVISORY, US

  February 5, 2013 2:36 PM

  EDITORS: At the start of the next cycle (midnight ET), the keywords for the Alabama hostage story will be changed from SCHOOL BUS DRIVER SHOT to ALABAMA BUNKER STANDOFF. The change reflects the evolution of the story from the initial shooting to the dayslong police standoff. The AP more »

• Small Ala. town: Relief that child hostage is safe

  February 5, 2013 8:50 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) A 5-year-old boy was back with his ecstatic family and playing with his toy dinosaur after his nearly weeklong ordeal as a hostage in an underground bunker was ended by a sudden police raid and the death of his kidnapper. The FBI and other law enforcement... more »

• Small Ala. town relieved that child hostage safe

  February 5, 2013 2:13 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) Officials say a 5-year-old boy has been safely freed after officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama and shot his 65-year-old armed captor to death. Authorities said agents rescued the child Monday from an increasingly agitated gunman, Jimmy Lee Dykes, fearing the child was facing imminent... more »

• Alabama town prays for gunman to release 5-yr-old

  February 4, 2013 5:42 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbor," and the power of group prayer. Those beliefs have been strongly in evidence in the six days since a gunman killed... more »

• Alabama town prays for gunman to release 5-yr-old

  February 4, 2013 2:32 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) The rural town of Midland City, Ala., has long relied on a strong Christian faith to get by. Now those beliefs have been strongly evidence in the days since a gunman killed a school bus driver, nabbed a 5-year-old boy off the bus and fled with... more »

• Details emerge about man at center of Ala standoff

  February 3, 2013 2:58 PM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) As an Alabama standoff and hostage drama marked a sixth day Sunday, more details emerged about the suspect at the center, with neighbors and officials painting a picture of an isolated man estranged from his family. Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 a decorated veteran of... more »

• Ala. town mourns for bus driver amid standoff

  February 3, 2013 3:39 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) The Alabama bus driver slain at the beginning of a multi-day hostage drama was known for his acts of kindness, from fixing someone's tractor to tilling the garden of a neighbor who had a heart attack. Charles Albert Poland Jr. was mourned by hundreds who gathered... more »

• Ala. town mourns for bus driver amid standoff

  February 3, 2013 2:35 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) The Alabama bus driver slain at the beginning of a multi-day hostage drama was known for his acts of kindness, from fixing someone's tractor to tilling the garden of a neighbor who had a heart attack. Charles Albert Poland, Jr., was mourned by hundreds who gathered... more »

• As Ala. standoff drags on, town grieves bus driver

  February 2, 2013 3:00 PM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) As the standoff with a man accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage continued Saturday, a nearby community prepared to bury the beloved bus driver who was shot to death when the episode started to unfold five days ago. Charles Albert Poland Jr., a 66-year-old man... more »

• Sheriff thanks suspect for taking care of boy

  February 2, 2013 11:36 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) Authorities said Saturday that still have an open line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old boy and holding him hostage in a bunker, and they thanked the suspect for taking care of the child as the standoff marked its fifth day.... more »

• Ala. sheriff: boy held hostage in bunker has toys

  February 2, 2013 11:23 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) Authorities say they still have an open line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old boy and holding him hostage in a bunker. Sheriff Wally Olson said Saturday that Jimmy Lee Dykes has told them that he has blankets and an electric... more »

• Authorities mum about talks with alleged abductor

  February 2, 2013 2:16 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) As a police standoff with an Alabama man accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker entered its fifth day on Saturday, authorities were saying little except that talks with the 65-year-old loner were continuing through a ventilation pipe. Negotiators were working late... more »

• Neighbors: Suspect in Ala. standoff was violent

  January 31, 2013 2:11 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) Jimmy Lee Dykes moved to a rural Alabama neighborhood on a rutted red clay road more than a year ago. It didn't take long before he had developed a frightening reputation as a volatile man with anti-government views who threatened his neighbors at gunpoint and was... more »

• Standoff: Ala. gunman holed up with kidnapped boy

  January 30, 2013 11:47 PM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 5-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said. SWAT teams took up positions around the gunman's... more »

• Lawmaker: Ala. child held in bunker got medicine

  January 30, 2013 2:24 PM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) An Alabama legislator says a 6-year-old boy who is being held hostage has been able to receive medicine and watch TV. State Rep. Steve Clouse said Wednesday he met with authorities and visited the family of the boy. The boy's captor is accused of intercepting a... more »

• Standoff: Man shoots Ala. bus driver, takes child

  January 30, 2013 5:55 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) Police with SWAT teams and negotiators are at a rural property in Alabama where a man was believed to be holed up in a bunker after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger. Authorities say the shooting happened... more »

• Driver fatally shot aboard Alabama school bus

  January 30, 2013 4:46 AM

  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) Authorities have converged on an Alabama community in a bid to resolve a standoff with a man authorities say fatally shot a bus driver and abducted a 6-year-old child passenger. The Dale County Sheriff told WBMA-TV (http://bit.ly/WthpQh) that the man shot the driver in Midland City... more »