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This undated photo released by the FBI on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, shows the pipe FBI agents and Dale County negotiators used to communicate with Jimmy Lee Dykes while he held a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker on his Midland City, Ala. property for a week. The pipe was also used to send food, medicine, and other items into the bunker. The boy was rescued and his captor was killed when federal agents raided the bunker on Monday. (AP Photo/FBI)

Kidnapper killed in firefight, had rigged bunker

Jay Reeves, Kate Brumback The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 11:06am

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. -- 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.

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Dale County Sheriff Wally Olsen talks with reporters in Midland City, Ala., Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Authorities stormed an underground bunker Monday in Alabama, freeing a 5-year-old boy who had been held hostage in the tiny underground shelter and leaving the boy's abductor dead. (AP Photo/The Dothan Eagle, Jay Hare)

Town relieved following 6-day hostage ordeal

Kate Brumback, Tamara Lush The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 10:55am

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. -- 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?"

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Law enforcement personnel station themselves on the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 in Midland City, Ala. Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after Sykes, his abductor, was seen with a gun. (AP Photo/AL.com, Joe Songer)

Police rescue 5-year-old hostage, gunman dead

Kate Brumback, Tamara Lush The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 6:27am

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and leaving the boy’s abductor dead, officials said Monday.

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(John Bazemore/The Associated Press)
A police officer responds outside Price Middle School after a shooting Thursday in Atlanta. A 14-year-old student was wounded in the shooting and a suspect was taken into custody, authorities said. No other students were hurt. Students were being kept at the locked-down school some two hours after the shooting but television footage showed some of them being dismissed. Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos said the wounded student was taken "alert, conscious and breathing" to Grady Hospital.

Authorities: Teen wounded at Ga. middle school

Kate Brumback The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 4:23pm

ATLANTA — A 14-year-old boy was wounded outside a middle school Thursday afternoon and a fellow student was in custody as a suspect, authorities said. No other students were hurt.

Police swarmed Price Middle School just south of downtown Atlanta after reports of the shooting at 1:50 p.m., while a crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were being kept at the locked-down school some two hours after the shooting but television footage showed some of them being dismissed.

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Will Carter, 15, surveys the damage to his house upon arriving home from school following a tornado, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Adairsville, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Massive storm unleashes tornadoes in South; 2 dead

Kate Brumback The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 10:18am

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. -- Kandi Cash trudged in rain through the splintered debris of her grandparents' home, hoping to salvage photos and other keepsakes after violent storms raked the Southeast, leaving two people dead before the vast storm front moved on to pummel the East Coast.

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Mom who shot intruder inspires gun control foes

Kate Brumback The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 7:11pm

LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia mother who shot an intruder at her home is becoming a small part of the roaring gun control debate.

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DA: No charges vs. Steelers' star QB

Kate Brumback The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 12:17am

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who won't face criminal charges after a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexually assaulting her inside a nightclub's bathroom, said Monday he knows he'll have to work to regain the trust of teammates and fans.

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Icy hazards persist through US, deep into South

Kate Brumback The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 6:38pm

ATLANTA -- Snow and blustery winds blew into the already-frigid East on Friday and a deep freeze settled into the Deep South, making highways especially hazardous in a region unaccustomed to the chilly temperatures.

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