Anthrax Widow Wants Feds To Pay Up

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ― Victims of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks said Thursday they are satisfied with the investigation's outcome that pinned the blame on a scientist. And now, the widow of a dead photo editor says, it's time for the government to settle her lawsuit and pay up. Victims and family members were briefed by the FBI on Wednesday, about a week after former Army scientist Bruce Ivins committed suicide before he could be charged. "This investigation, as far as I'm concerned, is closed," Maureen Stevens said Thursday during a news conference. Stevens' husband, Robert, was a photo editor at American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Inquirer gossip tabloid, when he was exposed to anthrax mailed to his office in Boca Raton. Stevens died Oct. 5, 2001, the first of five people to be killed and 17 others to... [read full story]