Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev claim the U.S. District judge overseeing the bomber’s death sentence legal battle, made public comments on the case during the appeals process.
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Windham schools are closed today following bomb threat
Windham schools are closed Friday after a bomb threat prompted the evacuation of Windham High School Thursday afternoon. The bomb threat was found written on a bathroom wall after students were dismissed for the day on Thursday, according to Windham police. Superintendent Sanford Prince wrote on Twitter that Windham High School was evacuated following a […]
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Investigators suspect FedEx bomb tied to Austin bombings
A package believed to be bound for Austin exploded at a Texas FedEx facility early Tuesday, law enforcement officials said, opening another potential front in investigations into of a series of blasts that have left the Texas capital gripped with fear. The explosion happened shortly after midnight at the facility in Schertz, Texas, just northeast […]
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Massive truck bomb in Somalia's capital kills more than 230
Somalis gather and search for survivors by destroyed buildings at the scene of a blast in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. A huge explosion from a truck bomb has killed at least 20 people in Somalia’s capital, police said Saturday, as shaken residents called it the most powerful blast they’d heard in […]
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11-year-old boy charged in Gray-NG school bomb threat
An 11-year-old boy at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School who police said called in a bomb threat Wednesday morning was charged with felony terrorizing. Deputies at the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department went to the school after staff found a “communication” on a scanner-printer in the school library alleging there was a bomb in the school, according […]
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Police investigate bomb threat at Oxford Walmart
OXFORD — Police are investigating a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the Oxford Walmart late Saturday night. According to Oxford police Lt. Michael Ward, approximately 50 shoppers and employees were evacuated from the building after the threat was called in near 11:30 p.m. The store, located on Route 26, is open from 6 […]
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Police arrest man after finding suspicious packages at Florida airport
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Authorities have a suspect in custody after finding two suspicious packages — including one they described as destructive — at the Jacksonville International Airport. Zeljko Causevic was booked into the Jacksonville County Jail early Wednesday and is being held without bond on charges that include making a false report about planting a […]
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Suicide bombers attack church in northwest Pakistan, kill 78 people
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers at a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 78 people in the deadliest-ever attack against the country’s Christian minority. A wing of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, raising new questions about the government’s push […]
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Bombings kill 58 in south and central Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq killed at least 58 people in mostly Shiite-majority cities on Sunday, another bloody reminder of the government’s failure to stem the surge of violence that is feeding sectarian tensions. Iraq is experiencing its deadliest bout of violence since 2008, raising fears the […]
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9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. Authorities also reported that 22 police officers and over 70 Taliban fighters died in two days of […]