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January 3, 2013 (ROCHESTER, N.H.) -- From their New Hampshire home, the parents of a foreign journalist who has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than a month ago appealed to his captors for compassion and any information about their son's health and welfare.

Thirty-nine-year-old James Foley was kidnapped in northwest Syria by unknown gunmen on Nov. 22, his parents said Thursday. He was in the country contributing videos to Agence France-Press, which has vowed to help secure his release.

Foley's parents, John and Diane Foley, decided to hold a news conference at their home to make a public plea to his captors because the Foleys haven't received any information about their son in six weeks.

They have kept the Christmas holiday lights on in the windows of their Rochester home as a vigil for their son's safe return.

"I appeal to the people who have Jim to let us know where he is and to help us secure his release," John Foley said. "We just pray that he's released."

Twenty-eight journalists were killed in Syria in 2012, prompting the Committee to Protect Journalists to name Syria the most dangerous country in the world to work in last year.

The Foleys would not discuss any detail about efforts through the U.S. government or otherwise to secure their son's release. Not long ago, they lived through the same anguish and fear over their son's safety.

In 2011, Foley was held by government forces in Libya while covering that country's civil war. Another journalist - South African photographer Anton Hammerl - was shot during their capture and left to die in the desert. Foley and another journalist were released after six weeks.

"I'll regret that day for the rest of my life," James Foley told The Associated Press in 2011. "I'll regret what happened to Anton."

Foley has worked in a number of conflict zones in the Middle East, including Syria, Libya and Iraq. He and another journalist were working in the northern province of Idlib in Syria when they were kidnapped in November near the village of Taftanaz. Agence France-Press Chairman Emmanuel Hoog has said the agency is doing all it can to secure Foley's release.

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ROCHESTER, N.H. From their New Hampshire home, the parents of a foreign journalist who has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than a month ago appealed to his captors for compassion and any information about their son's health and welfare.

Thirty-nine-year-old James Foley was kidnapped in northwest Syria by unknown gunmen on Nov. 22, his parents said Thursday. He was in the country contributing videos to Agence France-Press, which has vowed to help secure his release.

Foley's parents, John and Diane Foley, decided to hold a news conference at their home to make a public plea to his captors because the Foleys haven't received any information about their son in six weeks.

"We just don't know anything," Diane Foley said. "We don't know who has him."

They have kept the Christmas holiday lights on in the windows of their Rochester home as a vigil for their son's safe return.

"I appeal to the people who have Jim to let us know where he is and to help us secure his release," John Foley said. "We just pray that he's released."

Correspondent James Foley in Aleppo, Syria, in August 2012.

Twenty-eight journalists were killed in Syria in 2012, prompting the Committee to Protect Journalists to name Syria the most dangerous country in the world to work in last year.

The Foleys would not discuss any detail about efforts through the U.S. government or otherwise to secure their son's release. Not long ago, they lived through the same anguish and fear over their son's safety.

In 2011, Foley was held by government forces in Libya while covering that country's civil war. Another journalist South African photographer Anton Hammerl was shot during their capture and left to die in the desert. Foley and another journalist were released after six weeks.

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ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) From their New Hampshire home, the parents of a foreign journalist who has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than a month ago appealed to his captors for compassion and any information about their son's health and welfare.

Thirty-nine-year-old James Foley was kidnapped in northwest Syria by unknown gunmen on Nov. 22, his parents said Thursday. He was in the country contributing videos to Agence France-Press, which has vowed to help secure his release.

Foley's parents, John and Diane Foley, decided to hold a news conference at their home to make a public plea to his captors because the Foleys haven't received any information about their son in six weeks.

"We just don't know anything," Diane Foley said. "We don't know who has him."

They have kept the Christmas holiday lights on in the windows of their Rochester home as a vigil for their son's safe return.

"I appeal to the people who have Jim to let us know where he is and to help us secure his release," John Foley said. "We just pray that he's released."

Twenty-eight journalists were killed in Syria in 2012, prompting the Committee to Protect Journalists to name Syria the most dangerous country in the world to work in last year.

The Foleys would not discuss any detail about efforts through the U.S. government or otherwise to secure their son's release. Not long ago, they lived through the same anguish and fear over their son's safety.

In 2011, Foley was held by government forces in Libya while covering that country's civil war. Another journalist South African photographer Anton Hammerl was shot during their capture and left to die in the desert. Foley and another journalist were released after six weeks.

"I'll regret that day for the rest of my life," James Foley told The Associated Press in 2011. "I'll regret what happened to Anton."

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Barrett Jones was definitely not going there.

Alabama's All-American offensive lineman has spent five seasons with coach Nick Saban and he knows better than to talk about stuff like legacies and the Crimson Tide's place in history.

"Do you know what would happen if Nick Saban watched this interview and heard me say the D word?" Jones told a reporter who tried to lure him into the forbidden zone.

The D word would be dynasty and it is definitely off-limits around Alabama. But make no mistake, if the Crimson Tide can beat No. 1 Notre Dame on Monday night it will become the first team to win consecutive BCS championships and join a select list of college football programs with three national titles in four years.

In short, Alabama will lay claim to one of the great runs in history.

"I think what we're really focused on is what we have to do in this particular game," Saban said moments after Alabama arrived in south Florida. "Michael Jordan always says it doesn't make any difference how many game-winning shots I've made in the past. The only one that matters is the next one."

Since The Associated Press started crowning a college football champion in 1936, a team has repeated as champion 10 times, including Bear Bryant's Alabama teams twice.

No team has won three straight titles in the poll era. The standard is three out of four, and only two teams have done that. Notre Dame won AP titles in 1946, '47 and '49. But that's ancient history. Back then the final poll came out before the bowls were even played.

The other three-in-four-year champion was Nebraska, which won back-to-back AP titles in 1994 and '95, and capped a remarkable run with a perfect season and coaches' poll title in 1997, Tom Osborne's final season as coach. Michigan was voted No. 1 in the final AP poll that year.

Over that four-year period, Nebraska went 49-2.

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