Ricin in Obama Letter, Packages Scramble Hill

Police swept across the U.S. Capitol complex to chase a flurry of reports of suspicious packages Wednesday after preliminary tests indicated poisonous ricin in two letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator.
April 18, 2013

Police swept across the U.S. Capitol complex to chase a flurry of reports of suspicious packages Wednesday after preliminary tests indicated poisonous ricin in two letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator.

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