Officials looking for another anthrax letter

Federal officials said today they believed an anthrax-filled letter that has yet to be found sickened a State Department mail handler - a theory bolstered by traces of anthrax in eight spots in the Washington building where he worked.

Federal officials said today they believed an anthrax-filled letter that has yet to be found sickened a State Department mail handler - a theory bolstered by traces of anthrax in eight spots in the Washington building where he worked.

The State Department said it would begin hunting through three weeks’ worth of unopened mail, searching for a letter that could advance the anthrax investigation.

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