Latest Bomb threats News

No explosives found at Seoul stadium in police search following bomb threat against Ohtani

Mar. 20, 2024 03:51 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police said they’ve found no explosives at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome after searching the site Wednesday following a reported bomb threat against Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani. About 150 police officers used sniffer dogs, X-ray...

Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office

Mar. 13, 2024 19:23 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ election office in February 2021, the U.S. Justice Department said. James Clark, 40, of Falmouth,...

Georgia bill would impose harsher penalties on more 'swatting' calls

Mar. 11, 2024 16:04 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia would strengthen penalties against false reports of shootings and bomb threats at homes, known as swatting, under a bill passed Monday by the state House. The measure would also define a drive-by shooting as a separate crime. The House voted...

Zimbabwe's president cancels a renewable energy speech after a bomb scare at Victoria Falls Airport

Mar. 01, 2024 09:37 AM EST

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A bomb scare shut down Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls Airport on Friday, forcing the country’s president to cancel a planned address at a conference on renewable energy, an official said. Zimbabwean President Edson Mnangagwa was due to address the conference...

United flight diverted to Chicago due to reported bomb threat

Feb. 21, 2024 19:41 PM EST

CHICAGO (AP) — A cross-country United Airlines flight was forced to land in Chicago Wednesday as a result of what local media reports, citing a preliminary police report, called a bomb threat. United said only that flight 1533 from Newark to Los Angeles landed safely at O'Hare...

Threats to federal judges have more than doubled in 'alarming' spike, US Marshals director says

Feb. 14, 2024 17:42 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of threats targeting federal judges has more than doubled over the last three years amid a surge in violent and harassing messages directed at public officials around the U.S., the head of the U.S. Marshals said in congressional testimony Wednesday. ...

Editorial Roundup: Minnesota

Feb. 07, 2024 07:15 AM EST

Minneapolis Star Tribune. February 2, 2024. Editorial: ‘Swatting’ is a sad sign of our times Incidents are bipartisan, dangerous and a waste of law enforcement resources. It’s tempting to view “swatting” — the deceitful practice of calling...

Montana man pleads guilty to possessing homemade bombs in school threat case

Jan. 17, 2024 18:00 PM EST

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who had reportedly threatened to commit a Columbine-style attack at a high school has pleaded guilty to federal charges of illegally possessing homemade bombs and a silencer. Logan Sea Pallister, 25, of Helena entered his pleas Tuesday in U.S....

Judges overseeing Trump cases in New York and DC are latest targets as bogus 'swatting' calls surge

Jan. 11, 2024 19:47 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Bomb threats and false reports of shootings at the homes of public officials, state capitols and courthouses have surged in recent weeks, including some connected to court cases against former President Donald Trump. The judges overseeing the civil fraud case...

Violence rattles Ecuador as a nightclub arson kills 2 and a bomb scare sparks an evacuation

Jan. 11, 2024 18:11 PM EST

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A bomb threat sent an anti-explosives unit scrambling into a bustling area of Ecuador's tense capital Thursday while authorities in an eastern city reported a nightclub arson killed two people as the South American country staggers under a spike of violence blamed on drug...