Articles Tagged with ''bomb threat''

A Twitter user both claimed responsibility for the denial-of-service attack against Sony's PlayStation Network and also suggested there was a bomb on-board Sony executive John Smedley's American Airlines flight.

Law enforcement authorities in Waseca, Minnesota, say they have thwarted a 17-year-old’s plan to kill his family, start a diversionary fire, set off bombs at an area school during lunch, kill the resource officer on campus and then shoot students.

Michigan State University researchers have developed a laser that can detect micro-traces of explosive chemicals on clothing and luggage, creating the possibility of laser-driven security checkpoints, MSU Today reports.

There continues to be hundreds of bomb threats and incidents, especially at schools, public buildings and summer events. Most are false alarms but law enforcement must still respond in some way. And police and security officials also are implementing higher level precautions.

It was a busy middle May as school administrators, school security officials and local law enforcement responded to an escalating number of life safety and vandalism threats.

The fire at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was caused by careless disposal of smoking materials. The fire was reported just minutes after the second Marathon terror explosion blocks away in Copley Square.

A man with a metal detector uncovered a hand grenade in the San Francisco park on March 21, prompting officials to shut down the park and send in a bomb squad.

Sensors attached to specially trained mice would detect the bio-signals sent at the sign of explosives or drugs.

From high schools to universities, as students come back to campus, so do called in or written threats of explosives.

A bag containing an IED was left for 21 days under a guard desk at a Detroit government guilding housing the FBI.