Texan to plead not guilty to having bomb parts

DALLAS — A paramedic accused of possessing pipe bomb components will plead not guilty to that charge and denies an involvement in causing the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that he was among the first to respond to, his lawyer said Saturday.

Authorities said no evidence linked his arrest to the fertilizer plant disaster in the town of West, a point his attorney, Jonathan Sibley, emphasized Saturday in his first comments about the charge.