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    Feb 5, 2013 |Story| AP Member Choice Limited

  1. After six-day standoff, residents of Ala. town relieved child is safe

    Associated Press
    For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: "Is he free yet?" After FBI agents determined that talks with an...

    Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Washington, DC, Jimmy Lee Dykes, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice

    2. Feb 7, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  2. Coroner: Alabama hostage-taker shot multiple times

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A man who held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker for nearly a week before dying in a shootout with the FBI received "multiple gunshot wounds" to his body, a county coroner said Thursday.
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A man who held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker for nearly a week before dying in a shootout with the FBI received "multiple gunshot wounds" to his body, a county coroner said Thursday. Dale County...

    Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Jimmy Lee Dykes, Shootings, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice

    3. Feb 6, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  3. FBI: Alabama captor rigged bunker, waged 'firefight'

    MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage in an underground bunker, the captor was planning for violence, authorities say.
    MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage in an underground bunker, the captor was planning for violence, authorities say. He rigged the bunker with...

    Tags: Asperger Syndrome, SpongeBob SquarePants (tv program), Jimmy Lee Dykes, Laws, Explosions

    4. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Alabama standoff ends with child released, captor dead

    Officials on Monday rescued a 5-year-old boy who has been held hostage for nearly a week in an underground bunker in rural Alabama and they said his abductor was dead, ending a standoff that had gripped the nation.
    Officials on Monday rescued a 5-year-old boy who has been held hostage for nearly a week in an underground bunker in rural Alabama and they said his abductor was dead, ending a standoff that had gripped the nation. The boy, named Ethan, was taken to a...

    Tags: Jimmy Lee Dykes, FBI, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System

    5. Feb 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Boy held in Alabama bunker celebrates release -- and 6th birthday

    The child who was held hostage in Alabama celebrated his sixth birthday at home on Wednesday, recuperating from his almost weeklong ordeal as a hostage.
    The child who was held hostage in Alabama celebrated his sixth birthday at home on Wednesday, recuperating from his almost weeklong ordeal as a hostage. Ethan, who was freed from an underground bunker on Monday, was described by family and officials...

    Tags: Jimmy Lee Dykes, Human Interest, Explosions, FBI, Emergency Incidents

    6. Feb 5, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Rescued Alabama boy gets ready to celebrate his 6th birthday

    A day before his sixth birthday, the boy freed in a dramatic rescue by the FBI played with his toy dinosaur and was surrounded by his reunited with his family in an Alabama hospital on Tuesday, trying to shed the memory of being imprisoned for nearly a week in an underground bunker with a killer who kidnapped him from a school bus.
    A day before his sixth birthday, the boy freed in a dramatic rescue by the FBI played with his toy dinosaur and was surrounded by his reunited with his family in an Alabama hospital on Tuesday, trying to shed the memory of being imprisoned for nearly a...

    Tags: Robert J. Bentley, Jimmy Lee Dykes, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics

    7. Feb 5, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Life getting back to normal for freed 5-year-old Alabama hostage

    The Alabama boy held captive for nearly a week by an angry and volatile kidnapper seemed to be enjoying his newfound freedom Tuesday, according to relatives and the county sheriff in tiny Midland City, Ala.
    The Alabama boy held captive for nearly a week by an angry and volatile kidnapper seemed to be enjoying his newfound freedom Tuesday, according to relatives and the county sheriff in tiny Midland City, Ala. After FBI agents rescued him from a bunker,...

    Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Jimmy Lee Dykes, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Law Enforcement

    8. Feb 5, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  8. Relief in Alabama town that child hostage is safe

    MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: "Is he free yet?"
    MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: "Is he free yet?" After FBI...

    Tags: Asperger Syndrome, Washington, DC, Jimmy Lee Dykes, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice

    9. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Child hostage 'hanging in' as Alabama bunker standoff continues

    A child being held hostage in a bunker buried beneath the red dirt of rural Alabama will turn 6 this week, even as his neighbors and friends hope the birthday celebration will take place somewhere other than in the small cell where he has been kept prisoner since last week.
    A child being held hostage in a bunker buried beneath the red dirt of rural Alabama will turn 6 this week, even as his neighbors and friends hope the birthday celebration will take place somewhere other than in the small cell where he has been kept...

    Tags: Jimmy Lee Dykes, Pharmaceuticals, Shootings, Chemical Industry, Health and Safety at School

    10. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. A voice of reason on guns

    Baltimore County Police Chief James W. Johnson added a much-needed voice of reason to the national debate over gun control last week when he appeared before Congress to testify in favor of universal background checks for gun purchases and a ban on assault rifles and large capacity ammunition magazines. It was only common sense, he told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to extend the reporting requirements for federally licensed firearms dealers to the private individuals who account for 40 percent of gun sales in this country. To do otherwise, he noted, would be like "allowing 40 percent of airline passengers to board a plane without going through airport security."
    Baltimore County Police Chief James W. Johnson added a much-needed voice of reason to the national debate over gun control last week when he appeared before Congress to testify in favor of universal background checks for gun purchases and a ban on assault...

    Tags: Hadiya Pendleton, Jimmy Lee Dykes, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Rentals

    11. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  11. BREAKING NEWS: Hostage situation ends in Alabama, 5-year-old child is safe, kidnapper dead

    <span style="font-size: small;">MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - A U.S. official tells CBS News that a nearly week-long hostage standoff in which a 5-year-old was being held captive in southeast Alabama has ended in the kidnapper's death. The child is said to be okay.</span>
    MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - A U.S. official tells CBS News that a nearly week-long hostage standoff in which a 5-year-old was being held captive in southeast Alabama has ended in the kidnapper's death. The child is said to be okay. Authorities said 65-year-old...

    Tags: CBS Corp., Kidnapping, Vietnam

    12. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  12. Details emerge about man at center of Alabama standoff

    MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) &mdash; 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.
    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....

    Tags: Radio, FBI, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice, FEMA

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