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Doctor's car searched as part of anthrax case

PITTSBURGH - FBI agents searched a car Saturday belonging to the bioterrorism expert whose homes were raided earlier last by federal agents investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people.

Agents examined the car Saturday at the Connellsville Airport, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, said Frank Sero, a lineman at the airport.

Dr. Kenneth M. Berry, who lives in western New York but has family in the Connellsville area, kept the car at the airport to use when he was there, Sero said. He said he was not sure what the agents were looking for or what they took, but the car was still there Saturday afternoon.

Special Agent Jeff Killeen at the FBI office in Pittsburgh said agents searched a vehicle at the airport in connection with the anthrax mailings, but he did not say who owned the vehicle. The search did not pose a threat to public safety, Killeen said.

On Thursday, agents descended on Berry's home in Wellsville, N.Y., and his former apartment, as well as his parents' summer home on the New Jersey shore. Berry told police that he had nothing to do with anthrax, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., police Chief Daniel DePolo said in a news conference Friday.

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - Three generations of Bushes, including a president and a former president, converged in a small stone church by the sea Saturday to celebrate George Prescott Bush's wedding.

The wedding of President Bush's nephew - Gov. Jeb Bush's son - to Amanda Williams took place under a sunny sky and a heavy security presence. The president made the one-minute drive from his family's home at Walker's Point to St. Ann's Episcopal Church in an armored SUV, part of an unusually long motorcade that also ferried the first President Bush, his wife, their children and other relatives.

The indoor ceremony at the church overlooking the ocean lasted less than an hour, and most of the family walked down the road to the reception. President Bush skipped it, returning instead to Walker's Point after the wedding.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Already serving life in federal prison, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols is set to be sentenced to life in state prison Monday, and his attorneys say he may use the occasion to speak publicly for the first time.

The possibility of a statement gives new hope to victims' families who question whether the bombing conspiracy was limited to Nichols and bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Nichols, 49, was convicted in state court May 26 on 161 counts of murder but was spared the death penalty when his jury deadlocked on a sentence. He never testified during his state and federal trials.

FATAL HOUSE FIRE: A fast-moving fire ripped through a single-family house in Schenectady, N.Y., early Saturday, killing six young people including an infant, police said. Two adults escaped the fire.

CONJOINED TWINS: Two-year-old twin boys whose conjoined heads were surgically separated are beginning to thrive, one of their surgeons said Saturday in New York. Clarence and Carl Aguirre were separated Wednesday, and doctors are seeing signs of recovery much earlier than expected, said David Staffenberg, a plastic surgeon at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center.

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