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The Mississippi man suspected of mailing ricin-laced letters to a senator and to the president, was been released from custody on Tuesday, his defense attorney told NBC affiliate WTVA in Mississippi.Hours after Kevin Paul Curtis' release, authorities searched the home of another Mississippi man, J. Everett Dutschke, as part of the investigation, reported WTVA. Dutschke's name had come up earlier ...
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC NewsBOSTON — A week and a day after the Boston Marathon bombings, business owners and residents began to return Tuesday to the six-block, cordoned-off area of the attack that investigators painstakingly scoured for evidence.It has been a long wait for Joy Lee and her employees at Samurai Boston, a store near the race’s finish line on Boylston Street. Lee said ...
The American wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect is cooperating with investigators, and her husband’s alleged involvement in the attack came as an “absolute shock,” her lawyers said Tuesday.The lawyers would not say whether Katherine Russell, who is known as Katie and married Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2010, had already spoken with the FBI."The reports of involvement by her husband and brot...
Kevin Paul Curtis, the Mississippi man suspected of mailing ricin-laced letters to a senator and to the president, has been released from custody, his defense attorney told NBC affiliate WTVA in Mississippi.Curtis was arrested last Wednesday at his home in Corinth, Miss. Two letters that initially tested positive for ricin, a poison, had been found earlier in the week -- one addressed to Sen. Roge...
A high school science teacher who starts class each day by saying, "Welcome back to another day in paradise," and who came up with a unique way for his students to graduate from their small, rural high school with college credit has been named the National Teacher of the Year.Jeff Charbonneau, of Zillah High School in Washington state, will be honored by President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon...
