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The fertilizer storage facility that exploded this week in the town of West, Texas, had informed a state agency in February that it was storing up to 270 tons of ammonium nitrate – the highly explosive chemical compound used in the domestic terror attack on the Oklahoma City federal building.The company's risk management plan, filed with the federal Environmental Protection Agency in 2011, made no...
The Boston Marathon bombing suspects — armed with explosives and guns — battled law enforcement officers in a Boston suburb early Friday morning, unleashing chaos until cops took one of the men into custody and the other fled, law enforcement sources said.Officials later said the suspect taken into custody died and authorities identified the man on the run as the "white-hat" suspect, referencing p...
Police, federal agents and National Guardsmen descended on a Boston suburb where there were reports of violence, gunshots and two loud booms Thursday night into early Friday morning — all following the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer.The large law-enforcement presence gathered in Watertown, Mass., just a few miles from the shooting on MIT's Cambridge campus...
Police, federal agents and even National Guardsmen descended on an area outside Boston where there were reports of violence, gunshots and two loud booms Thursday night, following the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer.Two young men had reportedly shot at police officers.The tense situation followed an hours-long lockdown at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a campus police offi...
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed Thursday night while investigating a disturbance on the Cambridge, Mass., campus, officials said.There were reports of shots fired at 10:48 p.m. ET, and the situation remained "active and extremely dangerous" for hours, according to MIT's emergency website.The situation was still "very fluid" after midnight, as police conti...
