Washington: Discoveries embarrass police in Levy case

In a matter of hours, two private investigators with a rake found a footlong bone believed to be Chandra Levy’s in an area scoured for a week by dozens of Washington police with high-tech equipment.

That the investigators, employed by Levy’s parents, were in the company of a newspaper reporter only added to police embarrassment in a case that has been notable for investigative miscues.

Levy’s remains were found May 22 by a man walking his dog in Rock Creek Park, which police said had been searched thoroughly a year earlier.

Critics of the investigation said police had missed several other opportunities that could have helped them solve the case, including failing to ask for videotapes from a security camera in Levy’s apartment building before the tapes had been used again.

Levy was an intern for the Bureau of Prisons. She disappeared in May 2001.

Space: Endeavour delivers new station crew

Space shuttle Endeavour delivered a new crew to the international space station Friday to relieve the three men who have been living aboard the orbiting outpost for the past six months.

Space station astronaut Daniel Bursch, Carl Walz and Yuri Onufrienko, their Russian commander, moved into the space station in early December and did not expect to stay so long. Robot-arm problems at the space station and then shuttle launch delays added more than a month to their stint in orbit.

Replacing them aboard the space station were two Russians, Valery Korzun and Sergei Treschev, and one American, astronaut-biochemist Peggy Whitson, only the second woman to settle in.

Houston: Andersen jury asks to rehear testimony

Jurors in Arthur Andersen LLP’s obstruction of justice trial asked Friday to rehear testimony from the firm’s former top Enron Corp. auditor regarding his guilty plea to the same charge.

The auditor, David Duncan, 43, spent more than four days on the stand last month. He pleaded guilty in April to directing mass shredding of documents related to the energy company’s audits.

After some haggling from attorneys on both sides about what portions to read back, the judge approved sections from Duncan’s questioning by prosecutor Andrew Weissmann and from cross-examination by lead defense lawyer Rusty Hardin.

The jury ended its second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict; they were to resume today.