On 5th day, officials still mum in Ala. standoff

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — As a police standoff with an Alabama man accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker entered its fifth day, authorities were saying little except that their talks with the 65-year-old loner were continuing through a ventilation pipe.

By: Jay Reeves and Melissa Nelson-Gabriel, Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun