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Gallery: Meth Lab Suspects

Since 2010, area police have arrested nearly 200 people who allegedly cooked methamphetamine or had collected the ingredients and were preparing to make the drug. We've been tracking all of the suspects as part of our ongoing coverage of the local meth epidemic. Here's a look at the updated list of local suspects rounded up since 2010:

CNN anchor reports being robbed of her iPhone

ATLANTA (AP) -- CNN anchor Carol Costello reported that her iPhone was snatched from her hand as she strolled down a street in Atlanta. Police tell WSB-TV that Costello was talking on the phone while walking around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when two teenagers ran up from behind and grabbed the phone. Costello said in a post on her Facebook page that she struggled with one suspect as she tried to keep her phone, but he pulled out a chunk of her hair and she let go. "As he ran down the street, laughing, I hurled a few expletives his way," Costello wrote on her Facebook page.

Unlikely NY scribe handwrites Good Book in 4 years

PHILMONT, N.Y. (AP) -- In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible. On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping cursive. Four years of work begat more than 2,400 pages and left a multitude of pens in its wake. Now, as he copies the last words of the last book, Patterson sees all that he has created. And it is good. "I hadn't counted on the fact that it would end up being beautiful," Patterson said. "Or that it would be so exhilarating. And so long."

Woman stalked herself on Facebook, cops say

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- A western Michigan woman is accused of creating a Facebook account to stalk herself. Cheryl Nelson, a 52-year-old from the Grand Rapids area, complained to sheriff's deputies that she was the victim of stalking, harassment and other crimes. But authorities learned that she set up a Facebook account with her ex-boyfriend's information and made it appear that his new girlfriend was using it to harass her. Detective Jason Russo of the sheriff's department says Nelson couldn't let go of her relationship with her former boyfriend.

Five women killed when limo catches fire on bridge

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A coroner investigating the deaths of five women killed in a limousine fire as they were heading to a bachelorette party says their badly-burned bodies were found near the partition that separates the driver from the passengers. San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault says that suggests the women tried to use the window opening to escape the fast-moving fire that began in the back of the limo.

Pickup crashes into western Pa. pond; 3 men killed

MARION CENTER, Pa. (AP) -- Three men were killed when a pickup plunged into a small pond in western Pennsylvania and overturned, trapping them inside, authorities said. Emergency crews in Indiana County were called to South Mahoning Township just before 12:30 a.m. Sunday, officials said. State police said the three had gone to the location on private property to meet friends at about 10 p.m. Saturday and remained there for a short time before leaving.

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