Sunday, February 10, 2013
PHOTOS: Alabama hostage Ethan celebrated sixth birthday with the SWAT team and FBI agents who rescued him from week-long ordeal trapped in survivalist's underground bunker | Mail Online
Saturday, February 09, 2013
EXCLUSIVE: David Petraeus was brought down after betrayal by vengeful CIA agents and his own bodyguards who made sure his affair was exposed, claims new book | Mail Online
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.
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