31.   First, local police and fire departments investigate reports about suspicious white powders.

32.   Firefighters said they accidentally discovered the caimans after investigating a report of a cage on the fire escape.

33.   French officials began investigating the reports from Dubai in early September, just before the attacks in the United States.

34.   Haymes, the probation officer, also was investigating reports that a young mother, Lisa Stasi, had disappeared from Overland Park with her infant daughter, Tiffany.

35.   He said he supported the creation of an independent commission to investigate reports of police abuse.

36.   He sent an unusually large and high-ranking team of internal affairs detectives to investigate the reports.

37.   He was part of an aborted mission appointed this spring to investigate reports of massacres in Congo, the former Zaire.

38.   He said such reports are investigated, and local authorities are alerted depending on the strength of the intelligence report.

39.   Health officials also are investigating reports in Colorado, where four potentially linked cases following the Washington state alert.

40.   Human rights groups are investigating reports of the killing of civilians in Tsotsin-Yurt.