Saturday, February 09, 2013
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.”
Dothan bondsman-newsman almost enlisted to help meet Midland City hostage-taker's demands | al.com - Erin Edgemon - Just minutes after Jimmy Lee Dykes got on the Dale County School bus and shot its driver on Jan. 29, Dothan native Rickey Stokes was en route to the scene on a dirt road in rural Midland City. - For the past 10 years or so, the bail bondsman has written a blog, rickeystokesnews.com, largely focused on crime in the Dothan area. He was preparing for a live feed of a county school board meeting that night when one of his bail bondsmen called from the jail saying he heard a 911 call of a gunman on a school bus.
Report: Tiger Woods sent Lindsey Vonn his private plane - USATODAY - Though Vonn has claimed she and Tiger are just friends, reports out of Europe say the golf superstar sent his private plane to fetch Vonn after she suffered a catastrophic knee injury on the slopes this week.
Young and the Restless star inherits fortune left by man he never met: Illinois recluse, 71, leaves all his possessions and $1m estate to two Eighties soap actors | Mail Online -A dead man has left his $1 million estate to two soap stars that he had never met. Ray Fulk died last summer at the age of 71 in his farmhouse near Broadwell, Illinois. He died alone with no family and few friends. So he left his 160-acre estate to two actors that he felt close to - Kevin Brophy and Peter Barton.
Quinnipiac Poll: Hillary Clinton ‘Easily The Most Popular Actor On The American Political Stage’ « CBS DC - The Quinnipiac University national poll released Friday shows that Clinton enjoys a 61 percent favorability rating, 10 points higher than President Barack Obama.
East Coast digs out from under TWO FEET of snow: Six dead as winter storm Nemo shuts down nuclear power station, leaves up to 650,000 without power and closes ALL the roads in Connecticut | Mail Online
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