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MARLBORO — The suspicious device that prompted an evacuation of an NJ Transit bus Thursday morning on Route 9 was a small travel clock, police said. The bus was on its way to Lakewood from Newark when Marlboro police stopped it at around 8:30 a.m. on Route 9 near Robertsville Road, said Jim Smith, a NJ Transit spokesman. As passengers were exiting the bus at various stops along the route, several people alerted the driver that they noticed a suspicious device on the lap of a man, Marlboro police chief Bruce Hall said. Hall said the man had just got...

The suspicious device found on the Treasure Island off-ramp of the Bay Bridge this afternoon has been moved, according to a California Highway Patrol spokesman. The device was found on one of the railings of the off-ramp, CHP Officer Mike Ferguson said. The exact nature of the device or object remains unclear, and Ferguson said he does not yet know whether it was found to be harmless. Traffic across the Bay Bridge slowed to a crawl, then stopped altogether, before reopening this afternoon while police investigated a suspicious device found on the eastbound Treasure Island off-ramp, according to the California...

Note: Video included. Suspicious device found under WDW bus Updated: Friday, 18 Sep 2009, 12:19 AM EDT Published : Thursday, 17 Sep 2009, 5:34 PM EDT SNIPPET: "LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office Hazardous Device Unit have determined that an object attached to a Walt Disney World bus is not explosive or hazardous. Once that determination was made, investigators removed the object from the bus for further examination. It is still unclear what the object is or why it was placed on the bus. Employees located the object attached to the...

A PENTAGON security patrol came across a suspicious vehicle in the building parking lot, a Department of Defence official said overnight. "During a regular Pentagon parking lot patrol a car was found to have suspicious characteristics in south parking (lot)," said DOD spokesperson Eileen Lainez. "We are taking the appropriate precautionary measures and the investigation is continuing," she added, giving no further details. The vehicle was found as the United States is set to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On that day one of four hijacked passenger airplanes slammed into the Pentagon.

PASSENGERS on an international flight have been evacuated from a plane at Sydney Airport after a threat was made against the aircraft. "A Pacific Blue flight from Nadi, Fiji, which landed at approximately 5.45pm (AEST) today has had a threat made against it," Sydney Airport Corporation spokesman Peter Vickary said. "That aircraft has been parked away from the terminal, the passengers have been evacuated and the NSW police are now investigating." The Seven Network says the threat against the 737 aircraft was made from the Philippines .. while the plane was en route from Fiji. The east-west runway at Sydney...

10 minutes ago SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Thursday they were investigating reports that a suspicious device may have been found on board a flight that landed at Sydney airport from Fiji. A police spokesman said the reports were unconfirmed. Passengers and crew were evacuated from the plane, which has been parked away from the main terminal buildings while it is being searched, the spokesman said. No further details were available.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police blew up a suspicious package in a car parked near the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than two hours after the two occupants told authorities they had an explosive in the vehicle. Police said they were interviewing two men they took from the car to determine if the package was a bomb. (...)At 1:11 p.m., the Capitol Police bomb squad "disrupted" the package -- the police term for destroying it. The door of the car, a 2005 gray Chevrolet Impala, blew open at the time of the controlled explosion. (...)No evacuations were ordered for the Capitol,...

Suspicious device found in terminal. A,B,C serve Alaska, NW and Southwest. Developing.