An April 2 Metro item incorrectly said that inmate Alicia Edwards's suicide occurred in the mental health unit of the D.C. jail. Corrections officials later corrected their account to say Edwards was housed on the intake tier of the jail's female housing unit.
REGIONAL BRIEFING
REGIONAL BRIEFING
Monday, April 2, 2007; Page B03
NATIONAL AIRPORT
Munitions Found in Restroom
A cleaning crew at Reagan National Airport found two nonlethal munitions Friday in a trash can of a men's room in the C concourse at the north end of the terminal.
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Airport police contacted an explosive ordnance disposal unit, which determined that the devices, known as flash grenades, were designed to produce only noise and smoke, airport spokesman Rob Yingling said. The findings did not disrupt airport operations, Yingling said.
The men's room, near the ticketing concourse, is outside airport security.
The grenades were found about 10:15 a.m. Police removed them from the airport without incident about an hour later, Yingling said. Airport police and FBI officials are investigating how the devices ended up there.
-- Keith L. Alexander
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Fumes Close Emergency Room
A strange odor, later determined to be hydraulic fumes from an elevator, closed the emergency room of a Rockville hospital for an hour yesterday, a fire official said.
Montgomery County fire units were called to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital at 1 p.m. after a report of an unusual odor, fire spokesman Pete Piringer said. Only the emergency room was affected. It was evacuated briefly and occupants were evaluated while the source of the odor was located. The rest of the hospital remained open.
There were no reports of injury or illness traced to the odor, which proved "very faint," Piringer said.
