White Powder Sent to Wall Street Journal

More than a dozen NYC-based executives get envelopes with Tenn. postmark
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 21, 2009 12:48 PM CST
White Powder Sent to Wall Street Journal
The envelopes, sent to more than a dozen Journal executives in New York, bore the same Tennessee postmark.   (AP Photo)

The Wall Street Journal received more than a dozen envelopes filled with an unidentified white powder today, addressed to various New York-based executives at the newspaper. Police and hazardous-materials crews are investigating, according to a spokesman, and the floor used by paper execs and editorial-page employees has been evacuated. All envelopes bore the same Tennessee postmark. (More Wall Street Journal stories.)

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