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Nation & World
Clues surface in sniper case
For the first time since the Washington-area sniper slayings began, witnesses saw a man fire and flee in a white van, investigators said Wednesday. Unfortunately none of the witnesses got a good enough look to yield a sketch.
One witness told police the shooter used an AK-47 rifle to kill 47-year-old FBI analyst Linda Franklin on Monday night outside a Falls Church, Va., Home Depot store.
Investigators said the latest shooting has yielded the most detailed clues yet in the search for the killer, including license plate information and a description of a man seen leaving the scene in a white, Chevy Astro van with a burned-out or broken left tail light.
Northwest mechanics moving in
Hundreds of Northwest Airlines mechanics will move from Atlanta to the Twin Cities because their local maintenance base will be closed by the end of January.
But union leaders and the airline said Tuesday that it's unclear how many of the 1,450 Atlanta employees will choose to relocate to the north.
In an effort to cut costs, the Eagan-based carrier said Tuesday it would consolidate maintenance operations in the Twin Cities and shut down the Atlanta facility where DC-9s are maintained.
Jim Atkinson, a spokesman for the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), said union members in the Twin Cities will do whatever they can to ease the pain of Atlanta members being uprooted from their homes.
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