31.  A third case was dropped for lack of evidence.

32.  A third case involves a foreign institution that used the accounts of three Shanghai companies to earn illegal foreign exchange, it said.

33.  A third case of anthrax has been confirmed in Florida, and U.S. authorities were treating the outbreak as a criminal investigation.

34.  A third case of cholera has been reported in Moscow this year, a news agency reported Friday.

35.  A third case was reported in Hicksville in Nassau County.

36.  If rumors were confirmed, it would be the third doping case at the regional Olympics in four days.

37.  In the third case, prosecutors claim officers fabricated a story about gang members trying to run them down in order to arrest them.

38.  In the war-shattered republic, officials reported the third case in as many days of civilians apparently murdered by rampaging Russian soldiers.

39.  It is the third suspected case of a serial killer in the Johannesburg-Pretoria region in the past year.

40.  It is third case of hard-line militants attacking supporters of Khatami in Qom this week, Iranian journalists told The Associated Press.