UPDATE: Eight St. Louis airport workers arrested for theft

Thursday, March 19, 2009 | 4:41 p.m. CDT; updated 5:11 p.m. CDT, Thursday, March 19, 2009

ST. LOUIS — Eight contract baggage handlers for Delta Airlines rifled through hundreds of bags of luggage at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport over a period of more than a year, stealing some 900 items ranging from laptops and iPods to cologne and cigarettes, airport police said Thursday.

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