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Detectives begin thorough search of suspect's car

The car that investigators have portrayed as a killing machine used by the Washington-area snipers is getting its first thorough examination by detectives looking for clues that would explain how...
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U.S. prepares charges in sniper case

Federal authorities plan to bring charges as early as today against an Army veteran and teen-ager in the Washington-area sniper slayings, effectively cutting short the growing squabble among local prosecutors...
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Littered car yields clues

The car that investigators have portrayed as a killing machine used in the Washington-area sniper attacks is getting its first thorough examination by detectives looking for clues that would explain...
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Early tip for police on sniper suspect

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Authorities were notified nearly a year ago that John Allen Muhammad, one of two men held in Baltimore in the sniper shootings, had asked a gunsmith about...
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Witness sure he saw Soviet-style rifle

As investigators sort through conflicting witness statements about vans, trucks, facial characteristics and possible accomplices associated with the area's serial sniper, most have turned out to be too vague to...
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Sniper lull fails to calm region

For a second straight weekend, it appeared that the sniper terrorizing the Washington area attacked no one - a welcome, if small, comfort with the killer still on the loose...
Investigators gather around a piece of evidence retrieved near a highway sign on southbound Route 1 after the shooting in Fredericksburg, Va. At one point, authorities picked up a piece of paper from the scene.

2nd gas station killing in Va.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - A fatal shooting at a gas station here yesterday set off a huge manhunt that brought Interstate 95 to a crawl for hours, in what police say...
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Howard, Lombard junction reopens

There was no ribbon to cut, but smiling city officials did the next best thing yesterday: dragging away a barrier from the junction of Howard and Lombard streets to show...
Officials: Public works officials Amar Sokhey (left) and Gary Wyatt study a map of storm drains and sewers.

Tests to seek chemical source

Authorities hope new soil and groundwater tests will show whether the flammable chemical that exploded Saturday under downtown streets leaked into city storm drains from the Howard Street Tunnel, site...
Guiding the train: Paul Rahn is at the controls of the CSX locomotive that marked the resumption of freight traffic through the tunnel.

Explosions in city still 'a mystery'

Two days after six small underground explosions rocked downtown Baltimore, authorities remained stumped yesterday as to how 1,000 gallons of a highly flammable chemical pooled beneath a major intersection without...