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JOSH COOKE DOESN'T REMEMBER what he was thinking at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, when he went up to his room after eating dinner with his parents. He remembers what he was listening to on his headphones -- "Bodies," by metal drones Drowning Pool -- and what he did. "I just kinda looked over at my `Matrix' poster," he says, "and then I looked over at my gun." The 19-year-old donned combat boots and a black jacket -- like Neo, the hero of the 1999 movie and its sequels. He filled his pockets with shotgun shells. Then he picked...

Two stories transmitted by The Associated Press in December about the Washington-area sniper case contained material from New York Times reporter Jayson Blair that the newspaper since has called into question. A Times investigation found that Blair "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud," including widespread fabrication. A Dec. 22 story quoted an anonymous law enforcement source as telling the Times that evidence indicated John Lee Malvo was the triggerman in most if not all of the shootings. The story included the assertion that the evidence pointing to Malvo included saliva found on a grape stem near one of the shootings...

<p>FAIRFAX, Va. — Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo is facing more disciplinary action in jail after allegedly writing a letter to another inmate saying that a deputy sheriff should be "fatally injured," jail officials said.</p> <p>Malvo, 18, is being held at the Fairfax County jail on capital murder charges in the Oct. 14 shooting of Linda Franklin, 47, outside a Home Depot store.</p>