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Houston Public Media
April 25, 2018
In this sound portrait, we meet poet Juliane Tran. She recites the first poem that she ever wrote, and she talks about why a poem's purpose is to interrogate. She reads “Nature morte aux grenades,” an ekphrastic poem that she wrote while meditating upon an artwork of the same name by Mona Hatoum,Ãâà...
FirstCoastNews.com WTLV-WJXX
April 25, 2018
Four grenades donated to Goodwill on Southside. Unable to load video. FCN On Your Side's Ken Amaro looks into a scary situation that occurred Tuesday when Goodwill workers found a package with grenades inside donated to the charity. Published: 6:26 PM EDT April 24, 2018Ãâà...
KJCT8.com
April 25, 2018
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A U.S. sailor has been arrested on allegations of stealing grenades from a San Diego-based Navy ship. Federal prosecutors say Gunner's Mate Second Class Aaron Booker was detained Tuesday in Great Lakes, Illinois. He is accused of possessing 20 concussion hand grenadesÃâà...
BBC News
April 24, 2018
A Chinese university has decided to liven up its annual sports day by hosting a grenade-tossing event, it's reported. According to the China Youth Daily newspaper, the North University of China in the city of Taiyuan, northern Shanxi province, has decided to introduce a "500-gram grenade toss" to its trackÃâà...
Kotaku
April 24, 2018
Clinger grenades, as they're known in Fortnite, stick to any character you toss them at. So while you absolutely can pick up a slick double-elimination by sticking an enemy who's already under attack, you've got options. For example, you can stick clingers to your squadmates, tell them to charge the nearestÃâà...
ActionNewsJax.com
April 24, 2018
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office bomb squad has given the all clear after suspicious devices were found at a donation store on Southside Boulevard on Tuesday morning. JSO was alerted of the suspicious devices at approximately 10:35 a.m.. Four grenades were allegedly found in a donation bin at aÃâà...
KOAM-TV
April 3, 2018
Authorities in Pittsburg respond to a unattended death investigation and discover a military style grenade at a home near 20th and North Michigan. According to Deputy Chief of Police Brent Narges, after finding the grenade, they called the Kansas Highway Patrol Emergency Services Unit. They will beÃâà...
Yakima Herald-Republic
April 3, 2018
The woman carried it to her home on the 500 block of South Larch Street and called police, McGee said. Officers moved the grenade away from the house and called the Richland Bomb Squad, who disposed of it. Cerise Peck, a crime prevention specialist with Richland police, confirmed the grenade wasÃâà...
KDRV
April 3, 2018
The two citizens thought that they should turn the grenade over to law enforcement, and they drove it across town to drop it off at the GPDPS building, which is used by both police and firefighters. GPDPS called the Oregon State Police Bomb Squad. The entire evacuation of the area surrounding the buildingÃâà...
Pittsburg Morning Sun
April 3, 2018
PITTSBURG — An unattended death call led to the discovery of an old hand grenade, a release from the Pittsburg Police Department said Monday. According to the release, at 11:04 a.m., Monday, officers responded to a single family residence, located at 611 E. 20th Street, for an unattended deathÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
April 1, 2018
The Michigan State Bomb Squad helped a woman do a little spring cleaning Saturday in Allen Park. The woman, who was cleaning out a deceased family member's home, found WWII-era hand grenades and other military items in the attic, according to Lt. James Soden of the Allen Park Police Department.
KMOV.com
March 31, 2018
A Belleville family discovered a grenade Friday afternoon while cleaning out their father's garage. The home is located in the 8200 block of West Main St. The Belleville Fire Department (BFD) said the family was cleaning out their father's house, who is a veteran, when they found the grenade. The home hadÃâà...
WDTN.com
March 31, 2018
The report continues, “It appeared to be an old training grenade by its paint markings and nomenclature.” Deputies say due to the age of the ordinance, the possibility training grenades can still contain a charged fuse and the unknown possibility it could have been modified into an IED, the Dayton bombÃâà...
NBC New York
March 31, 2018
Two World War I-era grenades were found on a New Jersey beach Friday morning. The two grenades found on Mantoloking Beach in Ocean County the sixth and seventh explosive devices found on the shore in the past two months. Following the discovery of military artillery several years ago, the ArmyÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 25, 2018
Bomb Squad Blows up Grenades Found in Los Angeles Home. The bomb squad was called out to a Los Angeles neighborhood after people cleaning out of the house of a relative who had recently died found several hand grenades inside. March 25, 2018, at 6:15 p.m.. Bomb Squad Blows up Grenades Found in LosÃâà...
Swindon Advertiser
March 8, 2018
BOMB disposal experts were called to Royal Wootton Bassett today after a hand grenade was discovered at a popular park. The Second World War bomb was found at Jubilee Lake, which is currently undergoing work to combat erosion. Sgt Louis McCoy tweeted: “Thankfully inert, but all the rightÃâà...
UNIAN
March 8, 2018
Overnight Thursday, March 8, a shot from a grenade launcher hit the Leo restaurant located on Volodymyrska Street near the National Museum of History of Ukraine. Fire broke out ... Investigators have discovered a grenade launcher at the scene, just dozens of meters away from the targeted restaurant.
112 International (blog)
March 8, 2018
The man who detonated two grenades near Lisna metro station on March 6 is a former Berkut officer. This was reported by the press ... When he understood that there were Security Service officers who intend to arrest him, he threw the grenade and ran away,” Hitlianska noted. She added that law enforcersÃâà...
The Hindu
March 8, 2018
The Assembly witnessed unruly scenes during the debate on demand for grants for Police and Jails on Wednesday when former Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan dramatically produced what he said was a date-expired grenade hurled by the police recently in front of the Secretariat to disperseÃâà...
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
March 7, 2018
SEASIDE PARK — An already mostly empty beach was completely cleared for around an hour on Sunday when police received a report of a grenade on the beach. Police were called to the area of the 7th Avenue beach around 12:50 p.m. where they found what appeared to be a hand grenade, Cpl. SteveÃâà...
Redding Record Searchlight
March 7, 2018
After deputies stumbled upon one last hand grenade they safely de-activated, the explosives crisis there is resolved and all roads in the area are opened again, officials announced Tuesday. Lt. Anthony Bertain said the resolution didn't come before the bomb squad found one last "partially damaged andÃâà...
Press of Atlantic City
March 6, 2018
People stream onto the beach at Island Beach State Park after it reopened at 8 in the morning Tuesday, July 4, 2017, in Seaside Park, N.J. New Jersey's budget stalemate between Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the Democrat-controlled Legislature had resulted with the state government shut downÃâà...
KOB 4
March 2, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Police say a grenade sparked a big scare on the University of New Mexico campus. Advertisement. According to a criminal complaint, police were investigating a stolen vehicle driven by Douglas Meyer. As they were searching through the SUV, police noticed a grenade in the backÃâà...
Albuquerque Journal
March 2, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A scare about a suspicious package at a University of New Mexico parking lot Wednesday afternoon started when campus police said they spotted two grenades and a shotgun in an SUV they had pulled over. Officer Simon Drobik of the Albuquerque Police Department said theÃâà...
Michigan Radio
March 2, 2018
A southeastern Michigan middle school student is in custody after authorities say he took an inactive grenade to school and made threatening statements to other students. The Monroe Police Department and the Monroe Public Schools say the student was lodged in a detention center Wednesday after aÃâà...
The Local Sweden
March 2, 2018
There is something about the brutality of grenade attacks – attacks involving objects that are specifically designed for war – that makes them stick in our minds. But while deaths caused by grenades in Sweden are still rare (the two aforementioned incidents are the only deaths caused by grenade attacks),Ãâà...
GQ Magazine
March 2, 2018
Why stun grenades? There are way better and much cooler grenades! One of the very best grenades is the World War I–era “potato masher” or Stielhandgranate. Put a bunch of those in the supply closet for a rainy day and, assuming no frequent accidental explosions, it's probably at least a lateral move.
MLive.com
March 2, 2018
MONROE, MI - Police found an inert hand grenade in a Monroe Middle School student's locker Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 28, and say the student made threats to "blow up the school." Police allege the student was showing the inactive grenade to other students and threatened to blow up the school,Ãâà...
WXYZ
March 1, 2018
MONROE, Mich. (WXYZ) - A Monroe Middle School student is facing possible charges after bringing an inactive grenade to school and threatening to "blow up the school." Police were called to the school after the student showed the device to other students and made the threatening statements.
NPR
February 21, 2018
In the Balkan state of Montenegro, an unidentified man threw a hand grenade at the U.S. Embassy in the capital before then killing himself with another explosive, according to The Associated Press. The building in Podgorica was not damaged and no one else was injured, according to a State DepartmentÃâà...
Wausau Daily Herald
December 31, 1999
MOSINEE - The Central Wisconsin Airport was closed for about a half hour Tuesday morning after a hand grenade was seen during a luggage screening, according to the Mosinee police chief. The hand grenade was a training device and completely inert, Mosinee Police Chief Ken Muelling said.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
It was an M-75 hand grenade. Manufactured in great numbers for the Yugoslav national army, and then seized by paramilitaries during the civil war in the 1990s, the grenades are packed with plastic explosives and 3,000 steel balls, well suited for attacks on enemy trenches and bunkers. When Mr. ZunigaÃâà...