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Suspicious Device Found in Marion
Suspicious Device Found in Marion
The Massachusetts State Hazmat Team and State Police Bomb Squad were called to Marion Friday morning, after the Marion Fire Department received a report of a suspicious device in the road. Sippican Week reports the call came in just after 9 a...
Explosives in Garage
A man cleaning out the garage of a deceased family member got a surprise while going through some fishing gear. Fairhaven Police Sgt. Kevin Kobza says the man opened a fishing tackle box belonging to his late father-in-law, and found several M-80 explosives wrapped in lead...
Beach Explosion
Beach Explosion
A Rhode Island beach has been evacuated as authorities investigate reports from beachgoers of a boom in the sand that knocked a woman into a rock wall. State Department of Environmental Management spokeswoman Rayne Maguire tells the Providence Journal the woman was taken to a hospital from Salty Brine beach in Narragansett after the incident around 11 a...
Standoff Ends In Salem
Standoff Ends In Salem
UPDATE:  Police say a man who barricaded inside a home in Salem, Mass., was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot early this afternoon. Tthe man's name has not bee released.  An earlier story is below. Massachusetts state police have deployed a bomb squad in Salem after authorities evacuated neighbors living near a home in which an armed man has barricaded himself...