Suspicious letter intercepted in Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska: An eighth letter containing suspicious powder and addressed to a governor's office was intercepted in Alaska yesterday, and it bore a Texas postmark like suspicious mailings to other governors this week, officials said. A spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin said the letter was received yesterday in Juneau at a mailroom about a block from the Capitol and that it was addressed to Palin's predecessor, Gov. Frank Murkowski, who left office two years ago. Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said the letter came from Texas, but she didn't know which city. Seven suspicious letters to governors' offices received this week bore Dallas postmarks, the FBI said yesterday. And while those seven letters were determined to contain harmless powder, results of tests on the Alaska letter were pending last night, the FBI office in Anchorage said. Government operations were disrupted Monday when workers in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island opened the letters and discovered white powder.
