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  • Law officers at the Dale County hostage scene in Midland City, Ala., on Thursday morning, Jan. 31, 2013. A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 5-year-old 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. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh)

    Alabama boy held hostage believed safe

    The 5-year-old Alabama boy snatched from his school bus at gunpoint and stashed with his abductor in a bunker is believed to be physically safe, police said Friday, on day three of the standoff.

  • Law enforcement personnel continue to work at the scene of a hostage crisis late on Jan. 31, 2013, below the house where the suspect in the Jan. 29 shooting of a school bus driver is barricaded in a bunker holding a five-year-old boy captive. (Associated Press)

    Alabama hostage standoff enters 3rd full day

    More than three days after authorities said a gunman shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, the man showed no signs Friday of turning himself over to police.

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