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Carroll County man finds pipe bomb in mailbox
A man in Carroll County was checking his mailbox Wednesday afternoon when he discovered a pipe bomb, the Office of the State Fire Marshal said. The man was not injured. The mailbox was described as "rural," in the 3800 block of McMullen Road in...
Tags: Explosions
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Bomb squad finds possible pipe bombs in Culver City home, sources say
Police found multiple suspicious devices Wednesday morning in a Culver City home after a traffic stop in West Los Angeles, authorities said. The LAPD bomb squad was dispatched to the residence in the 3800 block of Overland Boulevard a short time after...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Explosions, Google Inc.
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Texas firefighters focused concern on toxic gases
WEST, Texas (AP) — When they saw 30-foot flames licking the sky inside a massive fertilizer plant, firefighters in this tiny Texas town rushed to evacuate nearby buildings and raced to spray water on tanks of chemicals, hoping to prevent a...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Environmental Issues, Chemical Industry, Companies and Corporations, Environmental Politics
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Holder defends subpoena of journalists' phone records
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday strongly defended the criminal investigation into the leak of classified details about a successful U.S. undercover operation, calling it "within the top two or three most serious leaks" of...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, The Associated Press, Police Investigations, Jay Carney, Barack Obama
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Magistrate court hearings will need new location
With renovations slated for the Aberdeen Municipal Building starting in fall, 5th Judicial Circuit officials wonder if the county would be willing to provide space for magistrate court hearings. The community room, in the basement of the Brown...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Government, Memorial Day, Highway Transportation
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Three coalition troops killed in Afghanistan
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three international service members were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. The soldiers were Americans, said Jawed Faisal, a spokesman...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Turkey, Armed Conflicts, Pakistan, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, The Associated Press, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Police Investigations, Media Industry
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Boat blast victim's recovery a story of pain and gain
"It's getting more painful, in a good way." That's how a badly burned handyman from Wood-Ridge, N.J., sums up his first week of recovery after an April 24 explosion aboard his boat, which was docked in Fort Lauderdale. Bart LoPresti suffered second-...
Tags: Rubber Products Industry, Explosions
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Natural Disasters, Mardi Gras, Brookings Institution, Hurricane Katrina (2005), FEMA
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Woman hospitalized after house explosion in Downs
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA woman suffered serious burn injuries after an explosion leveled a home in Downs. It happened overnight in the small town of Downs in Osborne county. The family is thanking a neighbor's quick-thinking--- he pulled the woman to safety. "It could...Tags: Explosions
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Taggants: Still a better way to track a bomber
A number of commenters on the online version of our April 28 Op-Ed, "A better way to track a bomber," argue against the use of taggants to trace explosives because the suspects in the Boston bombings, the Tsarnaev brothers, were identified through...
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Explosions, FBI, Safeway Inc.
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Las Vegas' Atomic Liquors, where nuclear bombs lit the sky, reopens
On a nearly deserted downtown block, a small brick building fronted by a curvy neon sign heralds a bygone era here: That's when the big bombs went boom and awe-struck Las Vegas residents watched the mushroom clouds billow into the bright desert sky....
Tags: Casino (movie), Dwayne Johnson, Bars and Clubs, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Apple iPhone
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