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Yemen Arrests Female Suspect in Bomb Case

Investigators also think language schools are involved again

(Newser) - Developments in the Yemen bomb investigation: Authorities there arrested a woman thought to be involved in the plot to send bombs to the US via cargo planes, the AP reports. Her role isn't clear, but she and others apparently used fake IDs to ship the devices, and a larger manhunt...

Bag of Explosives Found at NYC Cemetery

Is there a Hells Angels link?

(Newser) - NYPD officers are trying to determine who left a sack of military-grade explosives buried near a 19th-century vault in a city cemetery. The bag, containing 10 pounds of C4 explosive, was found more than a year ago by a caretaker ... who left it sitting by a fence; a volunteer touring...

Airport Scare: Not a Bomb (or the Plague)

Scientist once busted for 'unauthorized export' of samples

(Newser) - Great news: The guy carrying a suspected pipe bomb in his luggage at Miami airport wasn't carrying a pipe bomb after all. Not-so-great news: He's been busted previously for shady business regarding the transportation of plague bacteria. This, too, however, isn't as sinister as it might appear: The traveler is...

Latest Airplane Terror Scare May Be False Alarm

Feds don't think Yemeni men were planning an attack

(Newser) - It looks like that supposed dry run for a terror attack can be chalked up to a series of harmless coincidences, federal sources tell the Washington Post . The two Yemeni men who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam before being arrested didn't even know each other before the flight. "It...

Bomb Threat Clears Lourdes
 Bomb Threat Clears Lourdes 
Aug 16, 2010 4:17 AM CDT

Bomb Threat Clears Lourdes

Hoax strikes on Feast of the Assumption

(Newser) - Some 30,000 Catholic pilgrims, many of them disabled or ailing, had to flee the Lourdes pilgrimage site in France yesterday because of a bomb scare on the Feast of the Assumption, one of the site's busiest days of the year. A phone call to police warning that four bombs...

Times Square Bomb Was Purposely Crappy

Faisal Shahzad bought weak materials to avoid detection

(Newser) - One of the big mysteries in the Time Square bombing case has always been why a trained terrorist like Faisal Shahzad would build such a lousy bomb. Yesterday police revealed the answer: Shahzad was aware that the FBI monitors the purchase of supplies commonly used to make bombs, and he...

Times Square Bomb Suspect Pleads Guilty

Faisal Shahzad asks to 'plead guilty and 100 times more'

(Newser) - A Pakistan-born US citizen ha pleaded guilty to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing, saying he wanted it known that unless the US stops attacking Muslim lands, "we will be attacking US." Faisal Shahzad 30, entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan just...

Another Bomb Scare Rattles New York
 Another Bomb Scare 
 Rattles New York 
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May 14, 2010 12:01 AM CDT

Another Bomb Scare Rattles New York

Suspicious car belonged to harmless punk rocker

(Newser) - The fifth bomb scare to rattle New Yorkers since the failed Times Square bombing has turned out to be a false alarm. Several blocks of Manhattan were cordoned off and the bomb squad was called in after a Con Ed employee spotted a car with two gas canisters inside parked...

Suspicious Package Empties Times Square
 False Alarm 
 Empties 
 Times Square 
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May 7, 2010 1:30 PM CDT

False Alarm Empties Times Square

Forgotten cooler sets off massive reaction

(Newser) - Streets around Times Square have reopened after being evacuated when police received a report of a suspicious package abandoned under a bench in the area. The "package" turned out to be a small cooler with water bottles inside and a bag holding some papers, CNN reports. The objects were...

Passenger Surrenders After Bus Bomb Scare

9-hour standoff ends peacefully

(Newser) - A 9-hour standoff with a passenger on a Maine to New York Greyhound bus ended peacefully last night when the man surrendered to police. The standoff in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, began when a passenger called 911 to report an explosive device. The driver and 16 passengers left the bus after...

Abandoned Truck Scare Shuts NYC Bridge

Bomb squad finds nothing after driver flees

(Newser) - New Yorkers got a fresh scare last night when a truck was discovered abandoned next to the Robert F. Kennedy bridge. The bridge was closed and bomb squads rushed to the scene after being told that the driver had fled and the smell of gasoline was coming from the vehicle....

Bomb Scare Disrupts Pittsburgh Marathon
Bomb Scare Disrupts Pittsburgh Marathon
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May 2, 2010 1:01 PM CDT

Bomb Scare Disrupts Pittsburgh Marathon

Cops find device in microwave oven

(Newser) - Pittsburgh police had to reroute the end of the city's marathon this morning after they discovered a "suspicious explosive device" inside a microwave oven, reports the Post-Gazette . They safely detonated the device with a robot. The incident comes with headlines of yesterday's Times Square bomb square still fresh.

T-Shirt Vendor Emerges as Hero

Vietnam veteran doesn't want to make a big deal of it

(Newser) - The T-shirt vendor who alerted a New York City cop to a potential car bomb wasn't much interested in talking to reporters this morning. He just wanted to catch a cab home, reports the New York Times . “I’m not going to say anything," said the still unidentified...

Flight Diverted to Salt Lake After Bomb Threat

Passengers still on board as FBI searches plane

(Newser) - Airport officials say an airliner en route to San Francisco has been diverted to Salt Lake City following a bomb threat. The plane is already on the ground, being searched by FBI and airport police. Its 193 passengers and six crew members remain on board. United Flight 741, which originated...

Van Causes Bomb Scare in Times Square
Van Causes Bomb Scare in Times Square
Dec 30, 2009 12:22 PM CST

Van Causes Bomb Scare in Times Square

False alarm as cops evacuate NASDAQ over suspicious vehicle

(Newser) - Times Square had a bit of a scare this afternoon, one day ahead of the big ball dropping. Police partially evacuated the NASDAQ building and another high-rise because of a suspicious abandoned vehicle. The NYPD bomb squad investigated the old van, which had no plates, tinted windows, and hadn't been...

LaGuardia Suspect Faces 7 Years Over Fake Bomb

Scott McGann charged with placing a fake bomb, making terrorist threats

(Newser) - The man who entered LaGuardia airport with what could barely be described as a fake bomb has been charged with making a terrorist threat and placing a phony bomb, the New York Post reports. Scott McGann, 32, faces about 7 years in jail if convicted for the stunt that caused...

'Spaced Out' LaGuardia Suspect Identified

Man has three prior NY arrests

(Newser) - Police have identified the man who staged a bomb scare this morning at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the New York Daily News reports. Before his run-in with police, Scott McGann, 32, had already attracted the attention of observers by appearing “intoxicated” and “spaced out.” Cops tackled...

LaGuardia Evacuated; Fake Bomb Found

(Newser) - The main terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport was evacuated this morning, stranding hundreds of passengers, after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, the AP reports. The terminal was evacuated at around 5:30am after the man approached security in the airport's C concourse....

Bomb Scare Sparks Melee at Top Model Auditions

Mob stampedes; 2 hospitalized, 3 jailed for inciting a riot

(Newser) - A smoking car mistaken for a bomb sparked a high-heeled stampede among thousands of women awaiting Manhattan auditions for America's Next Top Model yesterday, reports the New York Daily News. Six were injured and three jailed for inciting a riot. "The girls were running like it was 9/11 Part...

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