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Man Arrested In Ricin Scare: FBI

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 05.22.2013 | Crime

SPOKANE, Wash. — A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a case in which a pair of letters containing the deadly poison rici...

New Step Taken In Ricin Letters Case

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics

SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of ...

Turkey Investigating Use Of Chemical Weapons In Syria

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2013 | World

ISTANBUL, May 9 (Reuters) - Turkey has sent a team of eight experts to the border with Syria to test wounded victims of the country's civil war for ...

Suspicious White Powder At Brooklyn Courthouse

Posted 05.07.2013 | New York

The NYPD has confirmed that police are investigating a suspicious white powder found Tuesday at the U.S. District Court House for the Eastern District...

Case Of Poison-Tainted Mail Headed To Grand Jury

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

OXFORD, Miss. — A dust mask that tested positive for ricin also contained DNA from a Mississippi man suspected of sending poison-laced letters t...

Ricin Letters Suspect In Court

Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

By HOLBROOK MOHR, The ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. — The first time James Everett Dutschke's name came up in court regarding ricin-laced lette...

FBI Documents Link Suspect To Ricin

AP | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

By HOLBROOK MOHR and JAY REEVES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have filed documents that say the deadly poison ri...

Words That Shaped Last Week: "Presidential Libraries," "Ricin," and "Brunette Betty"

Vanity Fair | Posted 04.30.2013 | World
Vanity Fair

By Juli Weiner For your edification, a look back at the phrases, nouns, and neologisms that have, for better or for worse, shaped the week's natio...

Former Ricin Suspect Has Been Problem After FBI Investigation

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and JAY REEVES | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics

TUPELO, Miss. — Ricin was found in the former martial arts studio of the man suspected of sending poison letters to President Barack Obama and o...

Gov't Search Left Former Ricin Suspect's Home Unlivable, Lawyer Claims

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man's house is uninhabitable after investigators searched it but failed to find evidence of the deadly poison rici...

Ricin Letters Case Begins

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

(Adds judge keeping charges sealed until hearing set for Thursday) By Robbie Ward TUPELO, Miss., April 29 (Reuters) - A...

Arrest Made In Ricin Letter Case

Reuters | Posted 04.27.2013 | Politics

By Robbie Ward TUPELO, Miss., April 27 (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor on Saturday after his...

Man Named In Ricin Case Goes Into Hiding

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 04.27.2013 | Politics

SALTILLO, Miss. — A Mississippi man whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the presiden...

Poison-Tainted Letters Spark Mystery

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 04.26.2013 | Politics

SALTILLO, Miss. — A Mississippi man whose home was searched in the investigation of poisoned letters sent to the president and others has appare...

Another Man Being Investigated For Sending Poison-Tainted Letters To Obama

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 04.25.2013 | Politics

OXFORD, Miss. — The investigation into poisoned letters mailed to President Barack Obama and others has shifted from an Elvis impersonator to hi...

Ricin Investigation Continues After Charges Dropped Against First Suspect

AP | JEFF AMY and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

TUPELO, Miss. — Charges of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others were dropped Tuesday against an Elvis impersonator f...

Ryan J. Reilly

Charges Dismissed Against Elvis Impersonator In Ricin Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Federal officials have dismissed charges against Paul Kevin Curtis, a Mississippi-based Elvis impersonator originally charged in connect...

Michael McAuliff

Reid: Another Ricin Letter Found

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A third ricin letter has been discovered by authorities in the nation's capital Tuesday, the same day the initial suspect in the mailing...

Hearing To Focus On Ricin Suspect's Mental State

AP | JEFF AMY | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

By Jeff Amy, The Associated Press OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S....

Attorney: Scant Evidence Links Man To Poison-Laced Letters Sent To Obama, Others

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 04.20.2013 | Politics

OXFORD, Miss. — Federal authorities have produced scant evidence linking a Mississippi man to the mailing of ricin-laced letters to the presiden...

Senate Mail Services Set To Resume

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 04.19.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Senate offices will begin receiving mail again on Monday, days after a Mississippi man was arrested on charges he sent ricin-laced lette...

Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Update

Michael Warbux | Posted 04.18.2013 | World
Michael Warbux

In West, Texas, a fertilizer plant exploded last night killing 5-15 people and leaving 100-170 people injured. The explosion is speculated to be cause...

Senate Official Confirms Tainted Mail Contained Poison

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and ADRIAN SAINZ | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms says a private lab has confirmed the presence of ricin in a letter sent to Sen. Roger Wicker. Terra...

Ricin Experts Weigh In On Risk Posed By Bioterror Agent

natureheader | Posted 04.18.2013 | Science

By Erika Check Hayden & Meredith Wadman The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that it has arrested a suspect in connection with t...

Senator Gives Key Update On Poison-Tainted Letter

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Police have a suspect in mind as they investigate a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for poisonous ricin, a Senat...