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The Alabama boy held captive for three days in an underground bunker has the medicine he needs, plus crayons, coloring books and even a television to keep him calm. But authorities still could not say Thursday when he might be freed.

The Alabama boy held captive for three days in an underground bunker has the medicine he needs, plus crayons, coloring books and even a television to keep him calm. But authorities still could not say Thursday when he might be freed.

A pilot in Anchorage, Alaska carried out a very special mission after hearing a request from a 9-year-old boy whose father was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. The boy had written a letter to his dad "to show that I didn't forget him and to show that I also love him."

Police in Seattle are investigating how a large package of marijuana wound up being delivered to the stock room of a local Kmart store.

Attempting to accommodate Muslim students' religious needs, a Maryland high school now allows those students with parental permission and good grades to leave class to pray.

A massive chain-reaction crash on an interstate highway in Detroit Thursday killed three people, including two children, and left at least 40 injured, local authorities said.

As a suspect in Midland City, Alabama continued to hold a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker on Thursday morning, the small town mourned the bus driver authorities say he killed on Tuesday.

A conversation with two passengers landed an Orange City, Fla., tow truck driver in jail after his cell phone pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers listened in, police say.

A 14-year-old was shot and a teacher was injured at a middle school in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, officials said.

A 14-year-old was shot and a teacher was injured at a middle school in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, officials said.