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ground bunker, the captor was making plans of his own.
• FBI special agent Jason Pack said in an email that bomb technicians found two explosive devices Tuesday on the man's property. He said one was inside the bunker and the other in the plastic pipe Dykes had told officers to use to talk with him.
• Pack said Dykes also "reinforced the bunker against any attempted entry by law enforcement." And when SWAT agents stormed the bunker Monday to rescue the boy, the FBI says Dykes engaged in a "firefight" before he was killed.
• As the FBI released new details, the boy was reported doing well at home.
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Woman charged in lover's slaying in Arizona continues testimony in death penalty trial
• PHOENIX (AP) -- Jodi Arias' life changed from the moment she met the man she killed. A world of opportunities seemed possible. A good job. A promising future. A potentially loving relationship.
• As Arias testifies in her murder trial, she continues to lay out in painstaking detail the events that led up to the day she stabbed and shot Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home.
• Her testimony was set to resume Wednesday.
• Arias has told jurors of a past marred by abuse at the hands of her parents, the numerous boyfriends who cheated on her and how things seemed to take a turn for the better when she met Alexander.
• The 32-year-old is now accused of stabbing and slashing him 27 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head in June 2008. She initially denied any involvement, then later blamed it on masked intruders before claiming self-defense.
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Clues to timing of NKorea nuclear test seen in US holidays, Kim family dates, South's politics
• SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- So when will it be?
• North Korea vowed last month to carry out its third nuclear test but has said nothing about timing. As a result, the building suspense in Seoul has prompted many to look at the dates Pyongyang has chosen for past atomic tests, as well as rocket and missile launches.
• Dates and numbers have great symbolic importance to North Korea's government. So Pyongyang often schedules what Washington calls "provocative acts" around U.S. holidays and important South Korean political events, an effort to send (Continued on page 28)
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