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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140297nWednesday, February 06, 2013
Above ground and safe, Ethan turns 6 - CNN.com - Lateef Mungin and Martin Savidge, CNN - As far as birthday milestones go, 6 isn't an age that gets the kind of enthusiastic treatment that parents reserve for when a child turns 1 or comes of age at 12. But Ethan turns 6 on Wednesday after surviving an unimaginable ordeal, and Midland City, Alabama, wants to make sure it's a birthday worth remembering.
Revealed: The dramatic firefight that ended the Alabama bunker stand-off as it is revealed survivalist shot first...as photos of the underground hideout are released | Mail Online - Laura Collins and Rachel Quigley
Small Town Wins Its Standoff With a Kidnapper - NYTimes.com - Campbell Robertson and Robbie Brown - Early ideas were proposed and dropped. Filming the scene from across the highway was a man named Rickey Stokes, a local bail bondsman who runs a blog on happenings in the area, RickeyStokesNews.com. Officials invited Mr. Stokes over, and discussed having him either go into the bunker with a camera, or teach a female F.B.I. agent to use his camera and go in. - Both of those notions were scrapped quickly. In any case, Mr. Dykes, wary of being tricked, insisted that his speech be live-streamed, not prerecorded. - Kirke Adams, the district attorney for Dale County who had been called to the scene from coaching high school girls’ soccer practice, said Mr. Dykes never gave an inch. - “The demand he made was impossible to accomplish in the way he wanted it done,” Mr. Adams said. “And he would accept no alternative.”
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