Hostage crisis:

Kindergartner still being held as standoff enters its fourth day

Law enforcement officials continue to work the scene of an ongoing hostage crisis in Midland City, Ala., on Friday. Local, state and federal officers wait out a man accused of shooting and killing a school bus driver on Tuesday, then snatching a 5-year-old child. Suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes has been hol...

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — The standoff between police and a gunman accused of holding a kindergartner hostage in an underground bunker dragged into a fourth day on Friday, as authorities sought to continue delicate conversations with the man through a pipe and worked to safely end the tense...

Published: 02/02/2013