Woman acquitted on bomb threat charge

CHICAGO -- A former Chicago Board of Education member charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly making a bomb threat at O'Hare International Airport last December has been found innocent by a Cook County judge. Judge Mary Ellen Coghlan said that while Anna Mustafa was "loud, rude and confrontational," at the Swissair ticket counter, she was not guilty of a crime.

Coghlan's ruling issued Friday followed a trial in which both Mustafa and airline employees testified. Mustafa, 54, testified that she became angry because she believed her luggage was being scanned because she is Arab-American.