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U.S. / NEWS Sat Sep 22, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

machinist.salon.com -- Star Simpson, a 19-year-old MIT student, was arrested at gunpoint Friday morning at Boston's Logan Airport when officers suspected that a circuit board and battery she had pinned to her sweatshirt was a bomb. Indeed, every news outlet is now referring to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 8:21pm neoform

CBS News -- A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:51pm neoform

BBC News -- Four people have been charged in the US over a plot to bomb John F Kennedy airport in New York, US officials said. They include a former cargo worker and a former MP for the Caribbean nation of Guyana. One of the suspects is a fugitive, believed to be.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

MSNBC -- A bomb was left in a duffel bag in the parking lot of a clinic where abortions are performed, but a bomb squad safely detonated it. An employee found the package Wednesday in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center, authorities said. The im.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 5:54pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A distraught graduate student claiming to have a bomb and anthrax sparked a scare early Tuesday that shut down the University of Missouri-Rolla, officials said, but the threat turned out to be a hoax. Preliminary tests on a white, powdery substance fou.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 2:08pm neoform

Reuters -- A Missouri college was closed down on Tuesday after a student claiming to have a bomb and anthrax threatened to destroy a building on campus, school and law enforcement officials said. Twenty-three people, including nine faculty and students from the U.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

Yahoo News -- One of the men criminally charged after placing blinking cartoon advertisements around the city videotaped a police bomb squad removing one of the electronic devices, but did not tell the officers the object was harmless... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 9:45pm neoform

MSNBC -- In nine cities across the country, blinking electronic signs displaying a profane, boxy-looking cartoon character caused barely a stir... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 31, 2007 @ 4:53pm mrmdc

CNN -- Five suspicious packages planted throughout Boston Wednesday forced the shutdown of major roads, a bridge and a stretch of the Charles River... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Paul W. Tibbets Jr., who piloted the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb in combat - an attack that helped end World War II and usher in the atomic age - died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio. Tibbets was 92. He reportedly.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

Washington Post -- In 2003, the FBI used a $25 million grant to give bomb squads across the nation state-of-the-art computer kits, enabling them to instantly share information about suspected explosives, including weapons of mass destruction. Four years later, half of th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 22, 2007 @ 5:35am neoform

USA Today -- A poorly packaged college application prompted a call to the bomb squad at Eastern Illinois University. Emergency crews evacuated a campus building Friday, after a postal carrier discovered a disheveled-looking package heading for the college's admissi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:58pm neoform

FOX News -- Nearly four years after a bank robbery ended with a pizza deliveryman being killed by a bomb locked around his neck, authorities said for the first time they believe he helped plan the heist. Brian Wells, 46, told police before the bomb killed him in A.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 8:55pm neoform

CNN -- Two people are expected to be charged Wednesday in connection with the bizarre 2003 case in which a pizza deliveryman died after a collar bomb attached to him exploded, CNN has learned. Brian Wells died August 28, 2003, in Erie, Pennsylvania, after he cla.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

FOX News -- A former Wal-Mart cashier says he was fired for joking on his MySpace page that the average IQ would increase if a bomb were dropped on the company's stores. David Noordewier said he was fired Feb. 27 for posting the message, which he said was a joke a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 6, 2007 @ 9:49am mrmdc

CBS News -- A prisoner enraged by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by undercover detectives tried to hire someone to behead the police commissioner and bomb police headquarters for $65,000, authorities said. David Brown, 47, was arrested Monday on a char.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 2:51pm mrmdc

Slate -- Turner Broadcasting will pay the state of Massachusetts $2 million in compensation for a guerilla ad campaign that went terribly awry last week when devices meant to promote a show on the Cartoon Network were mistaken for the handiwork of terrorists... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 8, 2007 @ 6:28pm neoform

Mercury News -- So much for the notion that any publicity - even bad publicity - is helpful: Ratings hardly went up for the Cartoon Network show with the ad campaign that briefly paralyzed Boston. Blinking electronic devices planted around Boston to promote "Aqua Teen.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 9:31pm neoform

Boston Herald -- Peter “Borat” Berdovsky is officially a victim now. The poor newcomer to our shores, this wannabe political “refugee,” is being persecuted by The Man, made a fall guy by Big Animation for the moronic Turner Broadcasting terror stunt... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 11:54pm neoform

Jackson Sun -- McKenzie man told undercover agents he wanted to detonate bomb Man gets 30 years for bomb plotting.. Read More