Rape case
A man employed as a bartender at Red Wind Casino in Olympia, Wash., was being held last week at the Thurston County Jail, accused of raping two women he met on MySpace — and detectives fear there might be other victims.
Fax leads to body
Police in L.A. following an anonymous tip sent by fax to a television station found a dead woman in the trunk of her car Saturday, and are looking for the sender and two men alleged in the message to have been involved in the crime.
Bomb kills 32
A total of 12,000 American and 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq by September, the U.S. military said Sunday, hours after a suicide bomber killed 32 people at the entrance of Baghdad’s main police academy.
Search for drone
Pakistani authorities searched Sunday for the possible wreckage of an American pilotless drone reported to have crashed in a northwestern militant stronghold, the military’s top spokesman said.
Modify the Taliban?
Asked in an interview with The New York Times if the U.S. is winning in Afghanistan, President Obama said no, but that he hopes U.S. troops can identify moderate elements of the Taliban and move them toward reconciliation.
DIGIT
more than $50 billion
In the 7 1/2 years since America’s worst bio-terror attack — when letters laced with anthrax spores killed five people, closed Congress and crippled mail service — U.S. agencies have spent more than $50 billion to beef up biological defenses.
