1.   A police spokeswoman said the outbreak was not connected to racial violence in nearby Oldham last month.

2.   Last night a police spokeswoman said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death and an inquest had been opened.

3.   A police spokeswoman said the thefts were being investigated.

4.   A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry.

5.   An explosion at a warehouse of Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd. injured one person, a police spokeswoman said.

6.   An old police weapon traced to a Washington, D.C., homicide influenced his decision, police spokeswoman Adella Jones said.

7.   Arrests were made after the disturbance, a police spokeswoman told the Associated Press, but she could not provide further details.

8.   Boston police spokeswoman Sgt. Margot Hill said Wednesday the department had rarely charged anyone with vagrancy.

9.   A federal police spokeswoman said that several people had been detained, but that none had yet been charged.

10.   A police spokeswoman and officers at the precinct said they had no idea.