9 months ago
BELFAST (AP) -- Officials say some hazardous material was removed from a Maine home where a woman killed her husband in December but stress that there was never a threat to the public. A report by the Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center says radioactive materials and instructions for building a "dirty bomb" were found by detectives investigating the killing of 29-year-old James Cummings. The report, leaked onto the Web and first reported by the Bangor Daily News, says four small jars of depleted uranium and two jars of thorium 232 were removed. Maine Public Safety Commissioner Anne Jordan said Wednesday federal officials told her the quantities were too small "to pose an immediate threat or hazard." Amber Cummings has not been charged in her husband's death. A grand jury is meeting this week.
