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As Alabama standoff drags on, town grieves bus driver

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Alabama state trooper Kevin Cook, center, speaks to media Saturday, in Midland City, Ala.

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Authorities said Jim Lee Dykes boarded a stopped school bus filled with 21 children Tuesday afternoon and demanded two boys between 6 and 8 years old. When Charles Poland tried to block his way, the gunman shot him several times and took one 5-year-old boy — who police say remains in an underground bunker with Dykes.