Federal jury convicts Calif. man for mailing anthrax hoax letters

September 30th, 2009 Appeals court upholds dismissal of vaccine suitWASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has ruled that members of the military can be required to be vaccinated against anthrax. The U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision dismissing a case brought by eight service members who challenged the Food and Drug Administration's determination that the vaccine was effective.

September 25th, 2009 Retired AF officer convicted in China spying caseALEXANDRIA, Va. — A jury has convicted a retired Air Force officer on charges of selling classified information on U.S.-China military relations to a Chinese agent and lying to the FBI about it.

September 17th, 2009 Calif. jury says father who drowned son was saneFULLERTON, Calif. — An Orange County jury says a father was legally sane when he drowned his 4-year-old son in a bathtub.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police received yet another hoax call Friday warning of a bomb blast in Connaught Place, the heart of the national capital, officials said. "The call came on a landline of a computer institute whose office is in Connaught Plale at around 9.30 a.m.

August 22nd, 2009 Ex-La. congressman's brother convicted of briberyNEW ORLEANS — A federal jury has convicted New Orleans political operative Mose Jefferson of bribery charges less than a month after his brother, a former Louisiana congressman, was found guilty of unrelated corruption charges. The jury of six men and six women on Friday convicted Jefferson of two counts each of bribery and obstruction of justice for paying $100,000 in kickbacks to former New Orleans school board president Ellenese Brooks-Simms.

August 19th, 2009 CA arsonist's relative accused of jury tamperingRIVERSIDE, Calif. — The brother-in-law of a Southern California man convicted of setting an arson wildfire that killed five federal firefighters has been charged with felony jury tampering.

August 14th, 2009 4 Puerto Rico police officers convicted in beatingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A jury in U.S. federal court has convicted four Puerto Rican police officers in the beating death of a man in their custody.

July 26th, 2009 US on verge of closing anthrax probe after 8 yearsWASHINGTON — A year after government scientist Bruce Ivins killed himself while under investigation for the lethal anthrax letters of 2001, the Justice Department is on the verge of closing the long, costly and vexing case. Several law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that the department had tentatively planned last week to close the case, but backed away from that decision after government lawyers said they needed more time to review the evidence and determine what further information can be made public without compromising grand jury secrecy or privacy laws.

July 18th, 2009 Sex offender convicted in 1975 Girl Scout murderNASHVILLE, Tenn. — A jury has convicted an imprisoned sex offender of murder in the 1975 strangulation death of a Girl Scout in Tennessee.

July 8th, 2009 Drug gives anthrax protection in animal studiesNEW YORK — An experimental drug helped monkeys and rabbits survive anthrax in a series of studies, suggesting it could be useful in case of another anthrax attack. In 2001, five people died after inhaling anthrax germs they'd gotten through the U.S.

June 27th, 2009 Texas' prison guard shortage easesAUSTIN, Texas — Hundreds of state convicts in Texas are going to be moving. Texas prison officials say they plan to cancel contracts to house as many as 1,900 state convicts in county lockups because the number of convicts in state prisons has fallen.

June 4th, 2009 Nearly 4 years for NM man who sent banks threatsLUBBOCK, Texas — A New Mexico man who sent threatening letters containing suspicious powder to dozens of banks and federal offices around the country was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in prison. Richard Leon Goyette, who has told The Associated Press he mailed the letters in October as part of "economic warfare," was sentenced to 3 years, 10 months on each of two counts in a federal court in Amarillo.

May 9th, 2009 Science agency to review FBI's anthrax inquiryHAGERSTOWN, Md. — The National Academy of Sciences said Friday it will review the lab work behind the FBI's conclusion that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001.

May 9th, 2009 Science agency to review FBI's anthrax probeWASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will review the lab work the FBI did to conclude that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001. The Washington-based academy said Friday the FBI will pay it nearly $900,000 for an independent, 15-month review of the genetic and chemical studies investigators used to link Ivins to the attacks.

April 25th, 2009 Northern Mariana Islands official convictedSAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — The lieutenant governor of the Northern Mariana Islands has been convicted of theft, wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. A jury in the U.S.