Authorities mum about talks with alleged abductor

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — As a police standoff with an Alabama man accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker entered its fifth day, authorities were saying little except that their talks with the 65-year-old loner were continuing through a ventilation pipe. via http://news.yahoo.com/authorities-mum-talks-alleged-abductor-081655942.html