Congressional offices receive mailed threats
Some congressional offices outside Washington and media organizations have received threatening letters containing a powdery substance that was tested and proved to be harmless, the FBI and the Senate's top law enforcement officer said Wednesday.
Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer said in a memo to Senate offices that the letters were sent to three state and home district offices. A law enforcement official said fewer than 10 members of Congress had received letters.
Whooping cough vaccine recommended
A federal advisory panel wants all adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who haven't gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult.
8 bodies found in capsized cruise ship
Divers searching the Costa Concordia cruise ship found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.
Italy's civil protection agency said four bodies had been recovered — a woman, a girl, a man and one whose sex could not be determined. Worsening weather halted removal of the other four bodies.
Man killed relatives, himself, police say
A gunman who was asked to leave a Korean health spa in an Atlanta suburb earlier in the day came back and shot two of his sisters and their husbands and then killed himself, police said Wednesday.
Surveillance video showed the man walking into the Su Jung Health Sauna on Tuesday night and getting into an argument with someone, then opening fire, police said. Four people were found dead inside, and another was pronounced dead at a hospital, investigators said.
From wire reports
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