Cleanup of anthrax will cost hundreds of millions of dollars
Cleaning up the invisible trail of biological poison left by the anthrax letters mailed last year will cost hundreds of millions of dollars by the time the decontamination effort is...
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FBI's use of bloodhounds in anthrax probe disputed
Three keen-nosed bloodhounds named Lucy, Knight and TinkerBelle, flown in by the FBI from Southern California late last summer to help with the anthrax investigation, are a major reason for...
Histories of 2 men remain a puzzle
In July 2000, in one brief stop on the troubled odyssey of John Allen Muhammad, the Army veteran turned up in a government office on the Caribbean island of Antigua,...
One sniper amid thousands of tips
One was a Rockville man who disappeared two days before the sniper attacks began. He had recently purchased a .223-caliber rifle, and he drove a white van with a ladder...
Woman shot dead in Va.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - A woman was fatally shot last night in a parking lot outside a Home Depot store here, prompting police investigating a string of sniper killings to...
A year later, clues on anthrax still few
It began with an ugly red bump on the middle finger of Johanna Huden's right hand. Huden, an editorial assistant for the New York Post, thought it was an insect...
Former Army scientist forged Ph.D. certificate, school says
When recent reports in The Sun and other publications revealed that former Army bioweapons scientist Dr. Steven J. Hatfill had claimed a Ph.D. he had not received, he offered an...
Virginia shooting linked to 6 others
Forensic experts confirmed yesterday that a Virginia woman was shot with the same weapon used in a sniper's random slayings in Montgomery County and Washington. The news came as police...
Scientist's apartment searched a third time
FBI agents investigating last year's deadly anthrax mailings conducted a third search yesterday of the former apartment of Dr. Steven J. Hatfill in Frederick, according to a government source. FBI...
Out of loss, a struggle for meaning
The No. 7 elevated train clanks and squeals along the rooftops of Queens, scattering pigeons on the way past Shea Stadium, sliding by graffiti on brick and rusty steel. The...