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UPPER MARLBORO — Police said Wednesday they have arrested two men in a smuggling scheme that included the sending of a 32-pound package of marijuana to a Washington, D.C.-area mayor's wife.

The home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, was raided July 29 by a SWAT team and county narcotics officers after authorities intercepted the FedEx package.

Police told The Washington Post the men, whose names weren't released, are suspects in a scheme to traffic 417 pounds of marijuana by mailing packages to unknowing recipients.

At the time of the raid, Calvo said he and his family are innocent, a notion his attorney said was confirmed by the arrests.

SMITHTOWN — Prosecutors say a "Girls Gone Wild" employee has pleaded not guilty to sexually attacking a woman aboard a bus outside a New York bar.

Matthew O'Sullivan, 37, of Los Angeles was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held on $100,000 cash bail. He does not yet have a lawyer.

A 20-year-old woman told police she was invited onto a "Girls Gone Wild" bus after an event held by the company Tuesday night on Long Island. She says she was forcibly groped and subjected to unwanted sexual contact.

Police say O'Sullivan works for the company that makes the soft-core porn series.

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue a criminal case into how Heath Ledger obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his overdose death this year, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.

Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan had been overseeing a Drug Enforcement Administration probe into whether the painkillers found in Ledger's system were obtained illegally. But the prosecutors have bowed out "because they don't believe there's a viable target," said the official.

The decision comes after recent reports that actress Mary-Kate Olsen was demanding immunity before answering questions about the startling death of her close friend and his drug use.

SAN ANTONIO — Four men from a Texas polygamist sect indicted on charges of sexual assault of a child have posted bond.

The members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have been jailed in Eldorado since turning themselves in to authorities more than a week ago.

Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran says they posted bonds of $100,000 per charge late Wednesday.

In addition to the abuse charge, one man faces a charge of bigamy.

The men were indicted along with imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs in late July.

Under the conditions of their bond, they must stay in Schlei-cher County unless they notify authorities.

AUSTIN — How many cheerleaders can cram into an elevator?

Apparently not 26.

A group of teenage girls attending a cheerleading camp at the University of Texas got stuck and had to be rescued after trying to squeeze into an elevator at a residence hall Tuesday night.

One girl fainted and was treated at a hospital and released. Two others were treated at the scene.

The elevator doors refused to open after the pack of 14- to 17-year-olds descended from the fourth to the first floor, police said.

Responding to a few panicked cell-phone calls from the group, police and firefighters summoned an elevator repairman, who spent about 25 minutes extricating them.

CHICAGO — A 17-year veteran of Chicago's City Council has admitted in a federal plea deal that she took payoff money and cheated on her taxes.

Former Alderman Arenda Troutman acknowledged Wednesday that she'd accepted money for helping real estate developers in her ward on the city's South Side.

She pleaded guilty to mail- fraud and tax-fraud charges. Eleven other counts were dropped in exchange for her plea.

Troutman, 50, lost her re-election bid last year after the charges became public.

Troutman could be sentenced to up to 23 years in prison but is more likely to face 46 months to 57 months. Sentencing was set for Dec. 3.

ORLANDO — Investigators have removed four bags of evidence from the home where a missing Orlando 2-year-old lived.

Orange County sheriff's Sgt. John Allen says investigators also had a "nice talk" with Caylee Anthony's grandparents during Wednesday's 2 1/2-hour search of the couple's home.

It was the fourth time they have been at the home where Caylee lived with her mom and grandparents.

Her 22-year-old mother, Casey Anthony, remains jailed on $500,000 bond. She was charged Tuesday with child neglect and filing a false statement.

WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury has indicted two South Dakota men on charges of smuggling African leopard hides and a skull into the United States.

Wayne D. Breitag of Aberdeen, S.D., and Jerry L. Mason of Frankfort, S.D., were charged with violating an international treaty that regulates shipments of certain species and also a federal wildlife statute. Mason is charged with smuggling a leopard hide and skull and Breitag is charged with smuggling a hide.

According to the indictment, Breitag and Mason traveled to South Africa in 2002 and killed leopards even though they knew they did not have the proper hunting permits. They later obtained false export permits to ship them back to the United States, the indictment says.

Smuggling is punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine, while the federal wildlife act violations are punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and also a $250,000 fine.

The two men are scheduled to appear in court Aug. 19.

WASHINGTON — As Americans aged over the last two generations, they drank less alcohol. And the younger generation of adults drank less heavily than the ones before it, according to the first analysis of alcohol-consumption trends over adult life spans.

By the time they reached their 80s, more than 40 percent of men and 60 percent of women said they didn't drink at all, according to a study in the August issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

Over time, beer drinkers generally shifted to wine, the study found, and the younger generation drank less hard liquor than the older ones. At the same time, more and more adults aged into moderate drinkers by federal dietary standards. They define moderate drinking as two drinks per day for men and one per day for women.

Researchers relied on estimates of alcohol consumption reported every two to four years from 1948 through 2003 for a famous and massive study of lifetime health called the Framingham Heart Study. The alcohol analysis involved 8,600 of its participants, born from 1900 through 1959.

AUGUSTA — Georgia authorities have closed an investigation into whether a 76-year-old grandmother killed the last of her five dead husbands, saying Wednesday they didn't detect poison in his remains.

Betty Neumar still faces three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder in North Carolina in the death of husband No. 4, Harold Gentry, and authorities there said they plan to press ahead with their case.

"It doesn't change things here," said Stanly County sheriff's Lt. Scott Williams. "We're moving ahead. We have a strong case."

After Neumar's arrest in Gentry's death, police in three states began to re-examine the deaths of her first child and four of the five men she married. In Georgia, Augusta authorities looked into the October death of John Neumar, whom Betty Neumar married five years after Gentry's 1986 death.

John Neumar's cause of death was listed as sepsis, a bacterial infection of the body's blood and tissues, but detectives were concerned he might have been poisoned with arsenic. Detective James Kelly told The Augusta Chronicle that tests found only small traces of barium, a common radioactive isotope used in medical tests, in Neumar's remains.