MERIDIAN, Idaho

MERIDIAN, Idaho

Woman has 1/11/11 baby at 11:11 a.m.

Tyler Ashton Marx's lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both.

The son of Jared and Leslie Marx was born at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, at St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho.

Jared Marx is serving in Iraq and watched his son's birth over the Internet.

But Tyler Marx isn't the only one in the family with a memorable birthday. His older sister was born on Sept. 9, 2009 -- 9/9/09.

A Minnesota couple's daughter was born Tuesday with one less one.

Amy Zeller and Codjo Mensah welcomed Flora Mensah to the world at 1:11 a.m.

WASHINGTON

Latest suspicious package not a threat

Days after a parcel ignited at a Washington postal facility, authorities returned Wednesday to the same neighborhood because of a suspicious package that was later determined not to be a threat.

Firefighters gave the all-clear about 45 minutes after they were called to a building in northeast Washington, D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer said.

The facility handles mail but isn't run by the U.S. Postal Service, said Michael Romano of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. It's a different location from the one that received a fiery package last week, he said, though both are on the same street.

Obama, GOP improve public standing

Americans give higher marks to President Obama and congressional Republicans after a holiday season of compromise paid dividends for both, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll.

At the start of the divided government era, the survey found that 53 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is doing his job, his best numbers since the divisive health care vote 10 months ago.

BUCYRUS, Ohio

Team bus collides with plow; 1 dies, 4 hurt

A bus carrying members of a college wrestling team has collided with a snowplow in Ohio and killed a 52-year-old athletic trainer.

Daniel Gorman, of Hartville, was killed.

The State Highway Patrol said the University of Mount Union bus was in the far right lane and passing the left-lane plow late Tuesday in north-central Ohio.

BALTIMORE

$100K in drugs found on docked cruise ship

Drug-sniffing dogs found nearly $100,000 worth of cocaine and heroin aboard a Royal Caribbean ship in a federal investigation of an employee smuggling ring.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the search uncovered 1 1/2 pounds of heroin and nearly a pound of cocaine aboard the ship Enchantment of the Seas. The ship was searched while docked in Baltimore.

-- the associated press

Last month, three employees of the ship were charged with conspiracy to import drugs after authorities say one of them was caught onshore with similar amounts of cocaine and heroin. Law enforcement officials would not say whether the new drug seizure is linked to that case, and no further arrests have been made.

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