Child Safe After 6 Day Standoff in Alabama

A five year old child is safe after being held hostage for six days.

It all began last Tuesday afternoon when sixty-five year old Jimmy Lee Dykes boarded a school bus in Midland City, Alabama.

Dykes shot the driver, sixty-six year old Charles Albert Poland Jr., killing him, and grabbed a five year old little boy, named Ethan.

He then took the child to his property, and locked himself and his hostage inside a bunker, he had constructed.

Police had been in negotiations with Dykes, since Tuesday evening, and Dykes had agreed to allow things for Ethan to be sent down, such as medicine, toys, and his favorite snack.

However, things deteriorated over the last few hours.

The FBI made the decision to go in, on Monday afternoon, as they felt Ethan was in serious imminent danger.

Exact details have not been released yet, but officers managed to breach the bunker and save five year old Ethan.

During the rescue, Dykes was shot and killed.

California Bus Crash Kills 8

A bus crash, in California, left eight dead and thirty-five injured, Sunday night.

Witnesses reported that bus's brakes seemed to fail as it was coming down a mountain.

It collided with several other vehicles, throwing passengers out of the bus, before finally stopping.

The bus had been carrying Mexican tourists, who had gone to Big Bear Lake, for a skiing trip.

Suicide Bomber Claims 36 Lives in Kirkuk

Thirty-six people were killed and one hundred and five injured, in a suicide blast, in Kirkuk, on Sunday.

The bomber targeted an Iraqi provincial police headquarters.

Witnesses said that the bomber was in police uniform and driving a police vehicle.

Police say they killed three other would be bombers, shortly after the first blast, when they came running up lobbing grenades.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which is in an area being argued over by Iraq and Kurds.

Paraguayan Presidential Candidate Killed in Helicopter Crash

Paraguayan Presidential candidate Lino Oviedo was killed in a helicopter crash, on Sunday.

A former general, he was recognized by some as a hero, who helped overthrow a dictatorship.

The sixty-nine year old was expected to finish fourth or fifth, in the election, but he was still fighting hard for every vote, traveling to remote locations to speak to villages.

Government officials are promising to investigate the cause of the crash.

For the next three days Paraguay will have a period of morning, and all official activities are cancelled or postponed.