Police probing suspicious package reports in DC
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Police were investigating reports on Tuesday of suspicious packages at three locations in the U.S. capital, including one near the White House that was later determined to be harmless, officials said.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The RCMP has warned its investigators to be on the lookout for cleverly disguised messages embedded by al-Qaida in digital files police seize from terror suspects.
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A federal courthouse within sight of the Capitol was evacuated Wednesday morning when a suspicious package was found near the building.
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Security experts were analyzing a suspicious package leaking white powder that was left in CNN's mailbox at U.N. headquarters Friday, U.N. officials said.
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Screeners discovered a suspicious package at Baltimore's main airport Friday morning and two concourses were closed, authorities said.
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The U.S., British and Israeli embassies each received packages containing a suspicious powder Wednesday, creating a security scare in which some staff was evacuated and police cordoned off nearby streets, police said.
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The U.S. Coast Guard said it had shut Boston's Charles River on Wednesday after police found suspicious packages in four separate locations in the city, including one on a bridge crossing the river.
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D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request...
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One D.C. police officer helped himself to a woman's credit card while investigating a burglary at her home, another allegedly spit on a nightclub bouncer in a drunken rage and a third was caught soliciting sex within 10 blocks of police headquarters.
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Hong Kong police said they were investigating an Internet service that posts bogus e-mails to unwitting recipients claiming to be from the police and other official organisations.
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Suspicious white powder has been found in an envelope that arrived at the U.S. embassy in Malaysia and three staff members quarantined, an embassy official and police said on Monday. "A letter was delivered that had a suspicious powder in it," said an embassy spokesman in Kuala Lumpur. "The powder is being sent for testing."
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Authorities found a suspicious package and evacuated the American Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, but the package proved harmless, officials said.
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Several blocks of New York City's Broadway were briefly closed off near Times Square due to a suspicious package, but have now reopened, police said on Thursday.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  - An envelope containing  suspicious white powder and threats against Americans was  delivered to the U.S. embassy in Malaysia, prompting health  checks on three staff, the embassy and police said Monday.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A U.S. Postal Service carrier was arrested after police say they caught him peeping into windows in a Capitol Hill neighborhood.  Matthew C.
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Police hunting a letter bomber say 26 suspect packages have been sent across three counties in the east of England.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A suspicious package left outside a fast-food restaurant Wednesday turned out to be a trumpet that has sounded its last note.  Someone noticed a suspicious package, and several blocks were closed down for about two hours as police investigated.