Monday, February 04, 2013
'He loved him when others did not': Community mourns loss of a school bus driver gunned down by survivalist he was trying to help | Mail Online - Laura Collins -Charles ‘Chuck’ Poland visited his killer on Tuesday morning, just a handful of hours before survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes gunned him down and took a five-year old child hostage. - The school bus driver went to Dykes’s home near Midland City, Alabama, after finishing his morning route, bringing him a basket of eggs and jam. - Hours later Dykes repaid the 66-year-old father and grandfather’s act of kindness with shocking violence.
EXCLUSIVE: Alabama 'survivalist killer' Jimmy Lee Dykes wants a reporter sent into his bunker to tell his story in exchange for releasing his 5-year-old hostage | Mail Online - Laura Collins - MailOnline has learned that Jimmy Lee Dykes made the extraordinary offer on the first day of what has now turned into a siege situation with the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on site, emergency services and a host of media focused on the piece of Alabama bluff under which Dykes and the boy, Ethan, are holed up. - A source with the local sheriff's office has revealed that a CID Lieutenant spoke with Dykes for the first four hours of the hostage situation, communicating via a pipe sticking out from the ground – the only surface sign of the bunker’s location. - In those first crucial hours, Vietnam veteran Dykes attempted to strike his bargain – the boy in return for a reporter to tell his story of ‘how the government had screwed him.’
Appreciating Kevin Millwood’s career | HardballTalk - Matthew Pouliot - It’s a trivia question that would have stumped most: who is the active leader in strikeouts among right-handed pitchers? Until this morning, the answer was Kevin Millwood, at 2,083. Now it’s Roy Halladay, just 17 behind at 2,066, after Millwood announced his retirement.
Sunday, February 03, 2013
'He loved him when others did not': Community mourns loss of a school bus driver gunned down by survivalist he was trying to help | Mail Online - Laura Collins -Charles ‘Chuck’ Poland visited his killer on Tuesday morning, just a handful of hours before survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes gunned him down and took a five-year old child hostage. - The school bus driver went to Dykes’s home near Midland City, Alabama, after finishing his morning route, bringing him a basket of eggs and jam. - Hours later Dykes repaid the 66-year-old father and grandfather’s act of kindness with shocking violence.
Record-breaking Jacoby Jones helps Ravens to championship - CBSSports.com - Ryan Wilson Blogger - Jones' kickoff matches the longest in NFL history in any game -- regular season or postseason. There have been three other 108-yard kickoff returns, including one from Jones against the Cowboys earlier in the year. The other two came courtesy of the Patriots' Ellis Hobbs in 2007 and the Packers' Randall Cobb in 2011.
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