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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it inadvertently shipped live anthrax spores to as many as nine laboratories and is investigating how that happened. The labs were supposed to receive dead — or inactivated — anthrax samples for research use. Spokesman Col. Steve Warren says the Pentagon is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to retrieve the samples. He says the government believes there are no risks to the public.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Officials are going door-to-door in one area along the Brazos River west of Fort Worth, Texas, urging about 250 residents to leave their homes because of flooding concerns. Parker County emergency management says the river is expected to reach flood state tonight and keep rising until early Friday. The San Jacinto River in suburban Houston is also still rising, prompting flood concerns in Harris County.
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A suspected gunman has surrendered peacefully and released two hostages after a tense standoff with police at a Northern California gas station. The police chief in the San Francisco suburb of Antioch says the situation began this afternoon with a carjacking and a police chase. After the gunman crashed the car, he went inside the convenience store portion of the gas station and took two people hostage.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska has abolished the death penalty. Senators in the one-house Legislature voted 30-19 today to override Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican who supports the death penalty. The vote makes Nebraska the first traditionally conservative state to eliminate the punishment since North Dakota in 1973. Eighteen other states and Washington, D.C., have banned the death penalty.
ZURICH (AP) — The U.S. government has launched an attack on what it calls deep-seated and brazen corruption in soccer's global governing body. Authorities conducted early morning raids in Zurich at FIFA headquarters and a five-star hotel. In Miami, FBI and IRS agents carried computers and boxes out of the headquarters of CONCACAF (KAHN'-kuh-kaf), the governing body of North and Central America and the Caribbean, whose past and current presidents are among 14 defendants under indictment for corruption.
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