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Police find explosives inside Belleville home following domestic dispute
Belleville News-DemocratBelleville police officers responding to a domestic disturbance early Saturday morning found improvised explosive devices inside a Belleville home in the 300 block of North Fifth Street. According to a news release, Belleville police responded to the...Tags: Emergency Incidents
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Hotel workers: An article in the May 12 California section about a proposal to increase wages for hotel workers said that it would apply to unionized workers. Proponents want the higher $15-an-hour wage to go to both union and nonunion workers at larger...Tags: Career and Workplace, Emergency Incidents, Employees
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Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi
ReutersBENGHAZI, May 18 (Reuters) - Armed groups attacked military posts in Libya's second city Benghazi with bombs and a rocket-propelled grenade, an army commander said on Saturday. Nearly two years after the uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Benghazi, Libya, Military Equipment
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Scout to be honored for role in saving lives
The Courier-Tribune, Asheboro, N.C.A local teen's quick and instinctive actions to save family members and friends from a burning boat has earned him a top lifesaving Boy Scout medal for his heroic actions. Aaron Michael Avelino, 17, of Ramseur will be awarded the Boy Scouts of America's...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Youth Organizations, Christianity, Timken Company, Human Interest
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Feds: Drive-through Sanford bank robbers said 'All will die' in note
Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini had money problems. So, according to Shaw, the two devised a plan to rob a Regions bank in Sanford. They made a fake bomb , stole a pickup truck at Seminole Towne Center, and wrote a demand note. Those...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Theft, Sanford, Politics, Lobbying
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Weaponry, Science and Technology, NASA, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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GBI probes bottle bombs in Fort Oglethorpe
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will examine fragments of two plastic bottle bombs found May 9 in a Fort Oglethorpe neighborhood. Greg Ramey, special agent in charge of the agency's 12-county Region 1 office in Calhoun, said the GBI will process the...Tags: Emergency Incidents
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Fort Bliss adds names of 13 fallen soldiers to memorial
El Paso Times, TexasIt was a somber Friday morning as the families and friends of 13 fallen Fort Bliss soldiers gathered to watch the unveiling of their names on the post's Field of Honor monument -- a lasting reminder of their sacrifice. The monument honors those...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Armed Conflicts, Israel, Afghanistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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EPISD teacher arrested; Bomb Squad called
El Paso Times, TexasThe arrest of an Andress High School teacher on suspicion of having an improper relationship with a student led to a massive multi-agency response Friday afternoon when investigators found what were initially believed to be explosives at his West El...Tags: Crimes, Emergency Incidents, Teaching and Learning, Police Arrests, Teachers
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3 Fort Bliss soldiers die in attack in Afghanistan
El Paso Times, TexasThree Fort Bliss soldiers were killed Tuesday in a bombing attack in Afghanistan, Fort Bliss officials said on Friday. The soldiers were killed when an homemade bomb detonated in the town of Senjaray, Fort Bliss officials said in a news release. Two...Tags: Social Media, Emergency Incidents, Armed Forces, Armed Conflicts, Afghanistan
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Dollar soars, stocks set new highs on Fed stimulus exit talk
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar soared against major currencies on Friday on growing speculation that the Federal Reserve could soon begin to rein in its bond-buying program and after data showed U.S. consumer sentiment hit an almost six-year high in...Tags: St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Exports, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Market and Exchange, Labor Legislation
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Bombings in Iraq leave at least 70 dead
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead Friday as the security situation continued to show signs of unraveling. The explosions brought the week’s...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Baghdad (Iraq), Politics, Government, Nouri Maliki
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