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White House locked down after breach

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published March 17, 2007

WASHINGTON

The Secret Service on Friday arrested a man it said had scaled a White House fence with a package and falsely claimed he had a bomb. The incident led to a security lockdown around the White House for more than three hours. Secret Service officials used a water cannon to destroy the package, which contained no dangerous materials. Secret Service spokeswoman Kim Bruce said the man, Catalino Lucas Diaz, 66, was charged with unlawful entry, threatening with a bomb and throwing a missile. She said he was believed to be from Florida but had no fixed address.

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SUV in president's caravan crashes

A vehicle in President Bush's motorcade traveling from Washington to the Camp David, Md., presidential retreat collided Friday with a car on an icy interstate, but no one was injured. The motorcade, fighting bumper-to-bumper traffic in rain, sleet and snow, was using the shoulder of the highway at times to move northward. A sport utility vehicle in the motorcade slid on ice and collided with a private car, Secret Service spokeswoman Kim Bruce said.

Also

-The Bush administration will examine whether a growing number of species, including polar bears affected by thinning sea ice, are at risk from global warming and need federal protection, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday.

-The Labor Department has agreed to issue rules in November requiring employers to pay for protective clothing and other equipment used by millions of workers to protect them from job hazards.

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