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Suspicious package at mayor's cottage
CANADA
Last updated Oct 19 2005 03:33 PM EDT
CBC News
Police are investigating a suspicious package found at Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay's cottage in the Laurentians.
It's the second time this month police have had to analyze a package found at his private getaway in St. Hippolyte.

THEODORE HOLLOT - GA Tech Related

Grand Jury to Eye Tech Case
Excerpted from WXIA-TV Atlanta Story linked above:
A Georgia Tech student charged in connection with soda bottle bombs that were thrown out of his dorm room window last week appeared in court on Wednesday.
The case against Theodore Hollot will be heard by a grand jury, the judge ruled, after his attorney and prosecutors failed to reach a plea agreement. Hollot is charged with a misdemeanor of reckless conduct and a felony of possession of an explosive device.
Hollot, 18, had cut off his long hair and wore a dress shirt and tie during his most recent court appearance. During his first hearing, the nuclear and radiological engineering major wore a ponytail and a Georgia Tech T-shirt.

SUSPICIOUS

IRS Employess Exposed to Suspicious Material
KFSN-TV/DT (Whole article)
October 19, 2005 - The Fresno Fire Department was on scene at the Fresno offices of the IRS Wednesday morning, investigating a suspicious envelope.
A fire department spokesman told Action News that ten IRS employees were exposed to the suspicious material. No one was complaining of any pain or discomfort.
The fire department did tests to determine what the suspicious material was and determined it did not pose any threat to the employees.
People were then let back into the building.

Authorities investigate suspicious package in Escondido
ESCONDIDO ---- Police called in the sheriff's bomb squad to investigate a suspicious device found this morning on the front porch of a Beaumont Glen home in Escondido.
The bomb squad detonated the device, which turned out to be harmless, police Sgt. Justin Murphy said.
(Device said to have been a ball wrapped in tin foil, with a wire sticking out inside a brown paper bag)

Suspicious box brings downtown to halt
Lowell, MA
LOWELL -- Traffic was snarled downtown yesterday after police found a suspicious package next to a mailbox on Market Street and closed off the area for about two hours until the State Police bomb squad could make sure everything was OK. (Box was empty)

SCHOOL + THREAT

High School Bomb Scare Ends Safely
SAN DIEGO -- A suspicious object was found in the parking lot of Scripps Ranch High School Wednesday, 10News reported.
Authorities were called at about 1:15 p.m. The object appeared to be a pipe.
The bomb squad detonated the device -- which was not a bomb.

Boaz teen's high school essay about "Killer Day" viewed as threat
(More about teen referring to Bush in an assignment)
BOAZ, Ala. - A Boaz High School freshman who wrote an essay proposing a "Killer Day" when everyone would be allowed to kill two people to relieve stress has been charged with making a terrorist threat.

Kingston HS Bus Threat May Have Been Fake
A Marshall County student tells authorities he found a threatening note on the school bus. Today police officers patrolled the campus.

14-year-old boy charged with threat to set off bomb in school
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa A 14-year-old Lisbon boy has been arrested for threatening to set off a bomb in his school in Mount Vernon.
Police say Adam Christenson was arrested Tuesday and is being held in the Linn County Juvenile Detention Center.

Codey calls for additional school security measures
WEST CALDWELL, N.J. (AP) _ Most schools throughout New Jersey are taking steps to safeguard their buildings and campuses from terrorism or other acts of violence, according to a statewide review made public Wednesday.
(...)Three-quarters of the schools have protocols to be followed when the federal Department of Homeland Security raises the national terrorism threat level, and nearly all have or are developing student conduct codes with specific attention being paid to bullying, firearms offenses and assaults with weapons.

Cohasset boy, 13, arrested in threats: Teen’s dad was ‘totally shocked'
(Long article w/many details... first paragraph only below...)
COHASSET - The father of a 13-year-old charged with making a pair of bomb threats at the middle high school was ‘‘totally shocked’’ when detectives arrested the boy at his home yesterday, police said.

Boy, 16, charged in bomb threat A 16-year-old student of Kosciusko High School was charged on Friday with calling in a bomb threat that kept students out of school for about an hour on Aug. 31.
Telephone records led police to the boy, Investigator Curtis Pope of the Kosciusko Police Department. He said that the case has been handed over to the juvenile court system and the boy has been released to his parents.
The maximum penalty for the charge, if the accused were an adult, could be up to a $10,000 fine and 10 years in prison.

Mother: Bullying led to threat
COLCHESTER - The mother of a 15-year-old student who was recently suspended for threatening to bring a gun to school said the story goes well beyond a student making a threat.

ETHS searched after threat
The Evanston Police Department received a call at about 8 a.m. Tuesday reporting a bomb threat at Evanston Township High School, Deputy Chief Joseph Bellino said.
(This is Evanston, IL and was reported in the DailyNorthwestern (Northwestern Univ.) My cousins used to live right across the street from ETHS! Beautiful old building. (o: )

Threatening note clears Bellefonte Middle School
BELLEFONTE (PA) -- A threatening note found in a hallway at Bellefonte Area Middle School on Tuesday afternoon led to a schoolwide evacuation about an hour before dismissal, coming just a day after a phoned-in bomb threat caused an evacuation at the high school.

5 boys held after bomb threat
Five pupils of La Romaine High School, San Fernando, were taken to court yesterday, charged with calling the E-999 to report that a bomb was set to detonate at their school.

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Bangladesh police finds bomb materials from mosque compound in northeastern city (PRAVDA.RU)
Police recovered bomb-making materials Wednesday from a room at a mosque complex in a northeastern Bangladeshi city, a day after a suspected Islamic activist threw a bomb at a judge, slightly wounding him, a police officer said. Police found bomb components, including detonators, metal shards, wires and batteries from his rented room at Buromia Jame Masjid in Sylhet town, 190 kilometers (120 miles) northeast of the national capital, Dhaka, officer Ansaruddin Khan Pathan said.

COLLEGE CAMPUS...
Device that forced Delta College evacuation not real pipe bomb STOCKTON -- Students and staff were forced to evacuate San Joaquin Delta College around 6 p.m. Monday after police found a false pipe bomb in a courtyard on campus.
Police cordoned off the area and class was canceled for the rest of the evening, said B.R. Brown, the college's spokesman.