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2:37 pm
Fri June 7, 2013

Metropolis Honeywell Plant Receives Bomb Threat

Credit The Southern Illinoisan

The Honeywell Uranium Processing Facility is allowing some plant workers to leave while law enforcement and plant management continue investigating a report of an explosive device in the plant.

Honeywell went on lockdown after receiving the report this afternoon. Honeywell spokesman Peter Dalpe said law enforcement and members of the state bomb squad are on scene. 

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Crime
2:58 pm
Mon April 29, 2013

Calloway County High School Victim of Two Bomb Threats in as Many School Days

Credit Chad Lampe
Members of law enforcement stand outside an evacuated Calloway County High School.

Law Enforcement agencies are investigating two bomb threats in as many school days at Calloway County High School. School officials evacuated students around noon Monday and locked down the nearby middle school. Kentucky State Trooper First Class Jay Thomas says the threats were on notes left in a girl’s bathroom.

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Developing
4:09 pm
Thu October 11, 2012

Middle School Students Arrested for Bomb Threat

Credit epodunk.com

The Hopkinsville Police Department has arrested two 13-year-olds and charged them with terroristic threatening for writing a bomb threat note at North Drive Middle School. Police arrested the boys yesterday afternoon after a teacher and a student found the note in the school hallway. Both confessed to school staff on scene and again at the Hopkinsville Police Department.

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Crime
3:53 pm
Wed March 28, 2012

Henry County School Bus Held Hostage

The man who held a bus full of Henry County students hostage with a bomb threat this morning is undergoing a mental evaluation. Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew says 26 year old Steven Decker boarded the bus during a stop on Guthrie Road. He told the bus driver he had a gun and a bomb and demanded $25 thousand  in cash. Belew says the bus driver called 9-1-1 during the incident. He says,

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