Suspicious letter is intercepted

An eighth letter containing suspicious powder and addressed to a governor’s office was intercepted in Juneau, bearing a Texas postmark like suspicious mailings to other governors this week, officials said.

A spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin said the letter was addressed to her predecessor, Gov. Frank Murkowski, who left office two years ago.

Seven suspicious letters to governors’ offices bore Dallas postmarks, the FBI said. Those seven were determined to contain harmless powder, but results of tests on the Alaska letter were pending, the FBI office in Anchorage said.

Government operations were disrupted Monday when workers in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island opened the letters.