Nation IN BRIEF : LOUISIANA : Oklahoma Blast Victim Exhumed
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The body of a woman killed in the Oklahoma City federal building bombing was exhumed in New Orleans before her weeping family, as authorities tried to find out whose leg was buried with her. The body of Air Force Airman Lakesha Levy, 21, was found in the building’s rubble nine days after the April 19 bombing. More than a month later, searchers found a left leg, which matched Levy’s DNA and footprints, raising the question of whose left leg was buried with her last May.
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