
January 31, 2013
Law officers work at the hostage scene in Midland City, Ala., on Thursday. A gunman holed up in a bunker with a young hostage has kept law officers at bay since the standoff began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said.
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Negotiators talking to Alabama captor through pipe
Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day.

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