Blocks in Bellevue vacated due to bomb scare
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Several blocks of downtown Bellevue were evacuated yesterday afternoon after a bank robber told a teller he had left behind a bomb in a bag.
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About 12,000 people were evacuated Thursday from Potsdam as explosives experts removed an unexploded World War II bomb from the Brandenburg state capital. The city center, including the main train station and Brandenburg state government offices, was sealed off for about 4 1/2 hours as the 550-pound American bomb was defused and removed.
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The federal courthouse in Washington   was evacuated on Wednesday after a suspicious package was found   near the building, courthouse officials said.
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Security costs A false bomb alert over the weekend led to scores of offshore workers being unnecessarily evacuated by helicopter from a North Sea platform at taxpayers' expense. Blame for the panic is being placed variously on oil company management (by unions) and on a young female worker aboard the rig (by management).â¦
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Police defused a fertiliser bomb on Thursday shortly before it was timed to go off outside a grocery store in Thailand&#39;s restive Muslim south.
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By Danielle Zielinski, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  May 26--JAMES CITY -- A College of William and Mary student was arrested this week on charges of bomb manufacturing after celebrating the end of the school year with homemade explosives, police said.
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Columbine High School was evacuated Thursday after officials received at least one call about a bomb threat, authorities said.
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The press center across the street from the White House was evacuated on Monday after a bomb-sniffing dog prompted a security check, U.S. officials said.
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A device that appeared to be a bomb was found under an overpass on a busy Interstate highway near Cincinnati on Wednesday, and local media said a bomb squad removed and destroyed it.
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Road cordons around the site of an explosion at a chemicals plant in Gloucestershire are lifted.
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High levels of asbestos, lead and other contaminants have been found in a vacant skyscraper badly damaged during the 2001 terror attacks, potentially complicating the rebuilding of ground zero.
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By The Seattle Times  Sep. 14--MERCER ISLAND -- A Mercer Island elementary school was put under  lockdown Wednesday afternoon as police responded to a report of a suicide  threat.   Officers later determined that a man, believed to be in his 60s, had shot  himself in a nearby home.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--APEX -- Town police evacuated several units at a townhouse subdivision Thursday after an officer responding to a complaint found explosive materials in an apartment.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--One of the most egregious pieces of unfinished business from 9/11 is the continuing vulnerability of chemical plants to terrorist attack.
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A section of New York City's Times Square was closed down on Tuesday as police investigated what they described as a possible bomb scare.
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Bomb units scrambled Wednesday to investigate four suspicious devices reported almost simultaneously throughout Boston. The reports forced the temporary shutdowns of part of an interstate, a key inbound roadway and a bridge between Boston and Cambridge.
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Four more bomb threats forced evacuations at stores in northeast Ohio early Friday, adding to a series of similar threats across the country this week, the FBI said.