Postal Worker

A body found in a Dumpster near San Francisco, California, has been identified as missing postal worker Nancy Rogers, authorities said Tuesday. The Hayward, California, police department said Rogers' death is being investigated as a homicide. Rogers, 61 of Fremont, California, went missing from the post office early Monday in Hayward, about 25 miles from San Francisco, said Hillary Rickher, spokesman for the postal inspector's office in San Francisco. "Hayward police department is still the lead agency, but we will maintain support for [them]

The death of a postal worker Monday of a suspected case of inhalation anthrax shook his neighbors and friends in this suburb of Washington. Joseph Curseen Jr., 47, was one of two workers at the Brentwood post office to die Monday of symptoms that are suspected to have been caused by anthrax. Two other employees are being treated for inhalation anthrax, the most dangerous form of the illness. Curseen was taken from his home in an ambulance around dawn Monday, his neighbor William Jones told CNN. He died a few hours later at South Maryland Hospital.

Two bodies, so far unidentified, were taken out of the post office and placed into hearses about 340 a.m. 440 am EST, nearly three hours after the shootings. There was no immediate word on whether the gunman was dead. ; The name of the gunman was not released, and there was no immediate word on a motive. ;The gunman opened fire in a thirdfloor mail sorting room where workers, many hired for the holiday season, were feeding machines that were sorting tons of Christmas mail.

The second postal worker killed by anthrax has been laid to rest. Hundreds of people, including Washington Mayor Anthony Williams, turned out Saturday to mourn Joseph Curseen Jr., a 15-year veteran of the postal service. Co-worker Netta Tucker remembered Curseen as a "beautiful" and "dedicated" man. "Everybody loved him," she said before the service at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in southeast Washington. "Once you get in contact with Joe you couldn't say anything bad about him because he was so beautiful.

Conclusive tests show a postal worker from Ft. Collins, Colorado, hospitalized with pneumonia does not have anthrax, Gov. Bill Owens said late Saturday. Earlier in the day, Owens had ordered the temporary closure of two postal facilities in Ft. Collins until the test results on the man were known. The 41-year-old man, who worked at the Boardwalk facility, was hospitalized Tuesday, said Colorado Public Health Department spokeswoman Cindy Parmenter. Some 200 employees from the Boardwalk facility and the Old Town Station Post Office were given antibiotics as a precaution, and were advised to continue taking them until environmental testing at the facilities are complete and the results are known.

WHITTIER, California More than 250 people gathered to mourn U.S. postal worker Joseph Ileto, gunned down allegedly by white supremacist Buford Furrow Jr.;The Rev. William Martinez said Iletos senseless killing and the senseless shootings of innocent people at the Jewish center, where five people were wounded, left Americans with emotions encompassing anger, bitterness, resentment and hate.;The mourners at the funeral in Whittier, the Los Angeles suburb where Ileto and his family lived, heard a congressman read messages of condolence from President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore to the family of the 39yearold Philippinesborn mail carrier.

LOS ANGELES CNN A plea of not guilty was entered Monday for avowed white supremacist Buford Furrow Jr. at his arraignment on federal charges of murdering PhilippineAmerican postal worker Joseph Ileto shortly after a shooting spree at a Jewish community center near Los Angeles. ;With Iletos family in the courtroom, a magistrate assigned the murder case to federal Judge Richard Paez, with a tentative trial date of October 12.; Paez will set the formal date. ;Furrow, 37, clad in an orange prison jumpsuit and wearing eyeglasses, stood between his public defenders, Sean Kennedy and Marilyn Bednarski.

A Washington, D.C., postal worker has been diagnosed with inhalation anthrax, the third confirmed case of this most serious form of the disease since October 1, Washington health officials told CNN on Sunday.Washington Mayor Anthony Williams said Saturday the employee works in the Brentwood mail facility that processes almost all mail to the District of Columbia. The man was hospitalized on Friday at Inova Fairfax Hospital in northern Virginia with flu-like symptoms. Hospital spokeswoman Janice Moore told CNN the man is in "serious" condition.

Hate groups target Los Angeles as being a center of Jewish power in America the media, television, Hollywood, etc. They have this fantasy that Jews control this nation and they have to take some violent action. I think thats why he went to Los Angeles to do what he did. ;Following are excerpts of comments made Thursday by President Clinton regarding the Los Angeles shootings;nnnIt now appears that they were motivated by racial and ethnic hatred. If so, thats the second such incident weve had in the last couple of weeks along with the killings that occurred in the Midwest which you all remember very well.

A body found in a Dumpster near San Francisco, California, has been identified as missing postal worker Nancy Rogers, authorities said Tuesday. The Hayward, California, police department said Rogers' death is being investigated as a homicide. Rogers, 61 of Fremont, California, went missing from the post office early Monday in Hayward, about 25 miles from San Francisco, said Hillary Rickher, spokesman for the postal inspector's office in San Francisco. "Hayward police department is still the lead agency, but we will maintain support for [them]

Postal authorities say a Michigan postal worker has admitted to stealing some $20,000 worth of first-class stamps since September and trying to sell them to online auction-site customers to help pay his mortgage. An arrest warrant has been issued for John Auito, 42, of Macomb, Michigan. Auito, a postal employee since 2003, resigned after investigators confronted him on April 30. He has made arrangements to turn himself in, authorities said. Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge Breck Nowlin of the USPS Office of the Inspector General told CNN that Auito has admitted to stealing stamps that were being shipped to retail stores, and he said he used the money from selling them to make delinquent mortgage payments.

Forty years ago, Chicago's Grant Park was the scene of violent political protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. History gave Grant Park another chance Tuesday as the scene of a peaceful and jubilant celebration of Barack Obama's presidential victory. "Look at these people -- old, young, black and white -- I've never seen anything like it, " said Vernita Gray, 59 surveying the crowd of up to 240,000 people after Obama's acceptance speech. "Today he won, Mom!" Brooke Mosley, 16, screamed into her cell phone.

A London court Monday found five men guilty of Britain's biggest ever cash robbery. A jury at the Old Bailey court convicted the men after a five-month trial, a court spokesman said. One man was acquitted. Sentencing was expected as early as Tuesday, the spokesman said. The men were convicted of the February 2006 holdup of the Securitas AB cash depot in Tonbridge, Kent, about 30 miles southeast of London. Lea Rusha, 35, a former roofer; car salesman Stuart Royle, 49; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30 and Emir Hysenaj, 28, a postal worker were convicted.

A suspicious white substance was found in a letter sent to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, State Department officials told CNN Friday. The powder is being tested by German hazardous materials specialists, the officials said. It spilled out of a letter addressed to the U.S. Embassy. But, the officials said, it never reached the U.S. facility or came into contact with any American officials. The officials said a German postal worker who tasted the substance was taken to a hospital for observation but released Friday.

3 dead, 1 wounded in postal facility shooting LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Three people were killed and another person was wounded Monday night when a shooter opened fire at a 24-hour postal service sorting facility in the Southern California community of Goleta, authorities said. There may be additional victims. Sgt. Keith Cullom with the Santa Barbara Fire Department described the wounded person's injuries as critical. According to Erik Raney with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, the suspect is believed to be a former postal worker, but has not been apprehended and may be inside the facility.

An armed man suspected of hijacking a postal truck and abducting a female postal worker was taken into custody in Miami on Friday after leading police on a meandering chase through Dade and Broward counties. The postal worker left the vehicle minutes before the suspect slowly walked out of the truck in the direction of officers. After the surrender, authorities inspected a high-powered rifle found inside the truck. The postal worker has been identified as Tanya Mitchell, who has worked for the post office for three years, authorities said.

Only six employees at Washington's Brentwood mail processing facility have elected to receive an experimental anthrax vaccine as of Thursday, just over two months since the building became a focal point of the anthrax crisis, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In October, health officials urged 2,000 workers at Brentwood to undergo screening for infection to the bacteria after two of their colleagues died from inhalation anthrax. Letters addressed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. Patrick Leahy and containing potent anthrax spores passed through the postal facility, authorities said.

Members of the American Postal Workers Union won't work in any postal facility that isn't completely clear of anthrax or any other form of contamination, the newly installed union president said Thursday. William Burrus, who stepped up as union president November 10, objected to the U.S. Postal Service's policy of closing only a contaminated section of a facility that tests positive for anthrax. Authorities don't know enough, he said, about how much contamination is too much. "The medical community isn't clear at this point what level of contamination could cause serious injury or death," Burrus told CNN from his home in suburban Maryland.

President Bush used a Sunday morning Veterans Day breakfast to repeat his warnings to the al Qaeda network and the Taliban.'Al Qaeda and the Taliban have made a serious mistake, and because our military is brave and prepared and courageous, they will pay a serious price," Bush said, speaking to an audience at a New York armory. "The evil ones have roused a mighty nation, a mighty land, and for however long it takes, I am determined that we will prevail. And prevail we must, because we fight for one thing and that is the freedom of our people and the freedom of people everywhere," Bush said.