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Killings linked to rejection of teen's romance

Aiba, texas

A family's opposition to a teenage daughter's romance is suspected of leading to an attack that left her mother and two brothers dead and her father wounded, investigators said Sunday.

Four suspects, including the 16-year-old daughter, were held on capital murder charges in Saturday's slayings of Penny Caffey, 37; Tyler Caffey, 8; and Mathew Caffey, 13. Her name was withheld due to her age. Also charged were Charlie Wilkinson, 19; Charles Waid, 20; and Bobbi Johnson, 18. She had been dating one of the three.

RIVERTON, Utah

FBI searches home in ricin investigation

FBI agents searched Sunday for the deadly poison ricin at a suburban home where a man possibly sickened by the deadly poison had once lived.

Authorities believed they had found all of the ricin in several vials recovered Thursday from a Las Vegas motel where Roger Von Bergendorff had been staying, but they wanted to check the home in Riverton, outside Salt Lake City. Von Bergendorff has been unconscious, so police and the FBI have been unable to question him about the ricin in his motel room.

Elsewhere

SAN FRANCISCO: Agents for the owner of a cargo ship that dumped oil into San Francisco Bay agreed to pay $2-million to the city, officials said Sunday.

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