Authorities in central California have dropped criminal charges against Stephen Beal, the former boyfriend and business partner of a spa owner who died in an explosion at her facility two weeks ago.
A package exploded this week outside an Episcopal church in the southeastern Texas city of Beaumont, police said, just two weeks after a package bomb was found and rendered safe outside a coffee shop in the same city.
Five devices have exploded across Texas during March, four in Austin and one in Schertz, killing two people and injuring at least four others. A 24-year-old white male suspect killed himself Wednesday as authorities closed in.
