DALLAS (AP) — The FBI says it suspects the mailings of hundreds of envelopes containing white powder over the last four years are the work of someone in Texas.
The FBI released a statement Wednesday saying the letters contain postmarks from North Texas and similar references to subjects such as al-Qaida and Nazis. A $150,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a conviction in the case.
More than 380 threatening letters in envelopes...
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police are scratching their heads about this one.
A car prowler shattered a window of a parked Jeep, stole nothing and left behind a little something for the car's owner — a dozen tortillas scattered across the floor. The crime happened last week near the University of Washington.
Bemused by the break-in, police were moved to pun, saying, "The Seattle Police Department would like to take this opportunity to remind car prowlers...
KILLEEN, Texas (AP) — A 6-foot-long inactive training missile accidentally fell from a military helicopter into field near a Texas military post, causing the brief evacuation of nearby homes but not harming anyone, officials said.
About 100 homes in a neighborhood near Fort Hood were evacuated Tuesday night after a witness reported seeing something fall from the sky around 8 p.m., Killeen police spokeswoman Carroll Smith said. Residents were allowed back into their homes...
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities are investigating a hazing incident at a Utah high school in which a student with a peanut allergy was smeared with peanut butter.
Ogden School District spokeswoman Donna Corby says nine cheerleaders at Ogden High School have been suspended after coating incoming squad members with condiments.
Corby says girls joining the squad were taken to a park May 4, supposedly to celebrate earning a spot as a cheerleader. Instead...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego restaurant opened by Junior Seau in 1996 has closed its doors two weeks after the NFL star's suicide.
Trustees of Seau's estate say they made the decision to close Seau's The Restaurant in Mission Valley on Wednesday.
Trustee Bette Hoffman says in a statement that the decision to close the restaurant was made to honor Seau's legacy. She also says trustees felt the restaurant's future profitability could be in question...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations.
The museum is home to the largest collection of sculptures by French artist Auguste Rodin outside of Paris.
The revitalization project started in 2009. It aimed to clean the pollution and grime that have built up at the institution over the past several decades. The museum first opened in 1929.
Restoration work...
OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Police say a bicycle stolen from Junior Seau's Oceanside home days after the former NFL star's suicide has been recovered.
Oceanside police Lt. Leonard Mata says an unidentified woman called police Wednesday after seeing a bicycle that matched the description of the one stolen from Seau's garage on May 7.
Police confirmed it was the stolen bicycle and contacted the man in possession of it. He told police he bought the bike...
HOUSTON (AP) — The defense lawyer for a Texas inmate executed two decades ago said Wednesday he isn't convinced the state wrongly put a man to death despite a new report that again questions the case.
Carlos DeLuna was convicted in the fatal stabbing of a Corpus Christi convenience store clerk during a robbery in 1983. His attorney, James Lawrence, said his legal team "pounced" on problems with the prosecution's evidence — shaky eyewitness accounts, no blood found on...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two women face possible charges after authorities say a text message seeking the illegal purchase of alcohol was errantly sent to an Alaska State Trooper.
Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters tells KTUU-TV (http://bit.ly/L81Gwx) an off-duty trooper in the southwest Alaska town of Bethel began getting text messages from an unknown number just after midnight Wednesday.
The trooper, Mike Ingram, responded to the texts and arranged...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tornadoes battered their school and homes, and spring break was spent cleaning up. Henryville has only begun to rebuild, but for one night, its high school students will get to put aside their worries for a private show by one of country music's biggest acts.
The southern Indiana community will share the spotlight with Grammy-winning Lady Antebellum on Wednesday night at the KFC Yum Center in nearby Louisville, Ky., where the trio will stage a "mini-...
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