A judge ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail Thursday for violating the terms of his bond in his perjury case, a decision the judge said he would have made for any “John Six-Pack” defendant.

Fire raging through rugged terrain on Thursday was complicating efforts to recover victims from the California forest where a firefighting helicopter crashed. Nine people are presumed dead.

Despite efforts to add Border Patrol agents to areas where immigrant traffic is high and drug violence is flaring, officers are bunched up near the California coast.

Army scientist Bruce Ivins had possession of purified anthrax spores linked to the deadly 2001 attacks. He worked alone.   

Lacking hard proof, U.S. federal prosecutors relied on the process of elimination and circumstantial evidence to finger Bruce Ivins as the anthrax killer.