Hazardous
Mar 1 2008, AP

As police tried to piece together how a rare, deadly poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a hospital.Adding to the mystery, police said firearms and an “anarchist type textbook” were...

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