PM: Bomb Suspect Pleads Innocent

Kevin W. Harpham pleaded not guilty today to charges that he left a bomb that investigators say could have caused multiple casualties along the planned route of a Unity March to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Story below. (SR sketch: Molly Quinn)

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