"People drop off a little homemade explosive device in the front yard, yeah it's kind of scary ," she said, flipping through pictures on her camera.

Patsy Brown and her husband woke up to find the remnants of a bottle bomb outside their front door on Mother's Day.

"As you can see here, the water bottle just exploded, and the foil exploded in about a 15-20 foot radius," she said, showing us a melted bottle and foil pellets.

The bomb consists of a plastic bottle filled with an unknown chemical liquid and aluminum foil. The concoction is commonly known as a Works Bomb. It exploded while the family was away from home on Saturday night.

UNION TOWNSHIP | Authorities said a home in the Shorewood Forest subdivision was damaged Saturday after two household chemical bombs exploded on the lawn.

A 56-year-old woman told Porter County Sheriff's Department investigators that she and her husband were awoken by a "thud" outside their home about 12:30 a.m. in the 400 block of Westchester Circle.

About an hour later, they heard another noise they thought was possibly their cat knocking something off a table. The woman said they looked around the house, didn't see anything abnormal and went back to bed.

That morning, though, they discovered a window facing the front yard was shattered and areas of their lawn had burn marks next to two plastic bottles.

Authorities said they believe one of the bottles was thrown at the window and and it appears both bottles were used to create a bomb-like device using household cleaners.

Officers said the family initially wondered if they had been targeted because of their Muslim faith. On Monday, Sgt. Larry LaFlower, public information officer with the sheriff's department, said investigators found nothing leading them to believe the vandalism was a possible hate crime.

BOMB squad officers carried out a controlled explosion this afternoon after police discovered chemicals in a Sheffield office.

Ridgehill Avenue, Intake, Sheffield, was shut for hours yesterday when police discovered chemicals relating to drug production.

The avenue was cordoned off for a second time this morning when more substances were discovered during a follow-up search.
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“Police had previously found chemicals at the address and the controlled explosion took place to safely dispose of these substances from the property.

“Earlier this morning a number of neighbouring properties were evacuated as a precautionary measure, as the public’s safety is paramount to officers.

“A 34-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to produce class A drugs, he has subsequently been arrested under the explosives act.

Police say two students have been taken into custody after two chemical-filled bottles exploded at a Memphis high school.
Memphis police said in a news release Thursday night that two 18-year-old students of Craigmont High School were charged with aggravated assault, felony reckless endangerment and possession of a prohibited weapon.
The high school was evacuated just before noon in what school authorities called a prank explosion. Officials say an assistant principal with asthma went to the hospital after inhaling smoke produced by the mixture. Police said a bomb threat had been called in to the school beforehand.
Shortly after, another bottle exploded about 15 miles away outside a Kroger grocery store. Kroger spokesman Joe Bell says a customer accidentally left behind a bottle with dry ice. No one was injured.

On Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, a gardener was seriously injured when he stepped on some gravel in the yard of a San Diego-area home and the ground exploded beneath his feet. Subsequent investigation of the house and its grounds revealed what authorities called the largest cache of homemade explosives ever found in the U.S. They deemed the house too dangerous to clean out and burned it down instead.
At the American Chemical Society national meeting in San Diego last month, in a symposium organized by the Division of Chemical Health & Safety, officials described how the incident unfolded.
Fire and ambulance crews initially responded to the scene; then they called the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department when they realized that the gardener’s injuries were from an explosion, said Nick Vent, an environmental health specialist in the Hazardous Materials Division of the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health.
Sheriff’s officers subsequently took the house resident, George Djura Jakubec, then 54, into custody for questioning; brought in bomb squad and hazmat crews; and evacuated the neighbors. The property is in a residential area, on unincorporated land but surrounded by the city of Escondido in northern San Diego County. It is also a few hundred feet from Interstate 15.

Two students were arrested Wednesday after Bountiful police said they detonated four small homemade bombs around the city, including one inside their high school.

Bountiful police Sgt. Gary Koehn said the detonation of the small chemical bomb at Bountiful High School was one of four that occurred about 8:20 a.m. No one was injured and no property damage was reported.

Koehn said the other three bombs, one of which went off in a church parking lot about a block away, exploded in the neighborhoods surrounding the high school.

Koehn said the students — a 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man — said they tossed the bombs at random because they wanted to "hear the loud boom." He said the two didn’t intend to hurt anyone.

The bombs were constructed from several household items combined in a plastic water bottle, Koehn said. He said the homemade devices spewed hydrochloric acid and created loud bangs.

Bluffton, S.C. --
Neighbors in the Baywood subdivision of Bluffton were not allowed to leave or enter while investigators identified an explosive device Monday morning.

Around 9:30 a.m. a resident called police to 2 Juniper Lane citing a crack in his Hyundai SUV windshield and a chemical smell coming from the vehicle.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Department says the remnants of a soda bottle were found inside the SUV. Bluffton Township Fire District also responded to the scene.

Authorities believe the bottle contained various household chemicals and was placed inside the unlocked vehicle.

The Anne Arundel County Fire Department responded at 9 p.m. Saturday after a report of a chemical explosion in a park near Kempton and Overhill roads in Glen Burnie.

Fire spokesman Battalion Chief Steve Thompson said some teenagers were making "bottle bombs," possibly using a combination of drain cleaner and alcohol.

An 18-year-old woman received lacerations and burns from the explosion and was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with serious but not life-threatening injuries, Thompson said.

(AP) - Three students have been sent to a juvenile detention center after setting off a homemade explosive device in a school cafeteria in Bradley County.

No one was injured in the incident Tuesday morning at Lake Forest Middle School. Two 14-year-old students and a 15-year-old were charged with possession of a weapon on school property and reckless endangerment.

Investigators said two students brought household chemicals and a plastic bottle to school, combined the items in the bottle and gave it to a third student who tossed it into a trash container. A chemical reaction caused the device to explode.

The students said they learned about the device in a YouTube video.

SAN DIEGO ---- It sounded like the craziest idea. But the plan to burn down an Escondido house full of explosives and hazardous materials went off so well it has become a model studied by safety professionals nationwide.
That was the judgment of industrial safety expert Neal Langerman, who spoke about the daring plan's long-term impact Monday. The house at 1954 Via Scott in northwestern Escondido, known as the "Escondido bomb house," no longer exists. Its destruction on Dec. 9, 2010, was carried out with no loss of life or injury, and without contaminating the neighborhood.
Public safety agencies worked together superbly, even though there was no precedent for dealing with such a powder keg in a residential neighborhood, Langerman said at the American Chemical Society convention.
Held at the San Diego Convention Center, it continues through Thursday.

MONROE, Ohio - The Monroe Police Department made four arrests Wednesday in connection to the manufacture and detonation of chemical bombs in Lemon Township.

Steven Bolin, 19, Michael Akers, 18, and Brian Carr, 19, all of Middletown, are accused of setting off the homemade bombs on Hickory Street Tuesday morning. Police later arrested and charged a fourth suspect, Klair Garrett of Hamilton, Wednesday night.

Police were originally called to the street for a report of possible shots fired. Officers quickly noticed the various soda bottles lying in the street and in yards. Investigators recovered a total of nine 'chemical reaction' bombs. A tenth was not activated.

LEMON TWP. – The Butler County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Unit responds time-to-time to small, hand-made bombs, but never have they found as many as nine, like the batch found on a residential street Tuesday morning, Butler County sheriff’s officials said.

“They think it’s a joke and they think it’s kind of funny,” said Sheriff Rick Jones. “They blow mailboxes up in the process. They blow your fingers off. They spew acid out. It’s very dangerous.”

Eight of the plastic pop bottle devices – sometimes called “MacGyver,” “Drain-O” or “over-pressurized” bombs – blew up in five yards on Hickory Street, said Spc. Mike Grimes, the unit’s commander.

Several neighbors reported hearing gunshots around 6:15 a.m. and at least one woman called 911. The street was evacuated for a short time.

“One (explosion) measured over a 15-foot diameter,” Grimes said.

At least one partially made bomb was left behind in a driveway, Grimes said. He believes the culprits – thought to be juveniles – were probably in the midst of filling it with chemicals and were scared off by a neighbor or police, Grimes said.

Four teenage boys — two from Livermore Falls and two from Rumford — are charged with setting off six soda bottle bombs and igniting two fires in their respective towns over the weekend, officials said Monday.  

The State Fire Marshal's Office charged the Livermore Falls boys, ages 14 and 15, with criminal use of explosives. They are accused of making six devices that blew up in the Baldwin, Church, Pleasant, Knapp and Green streets area, Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety said in a statement.

During the investigation, the boys were identified and came to the Livermore Falls Police Station with their parents Sunday for questioning, state investigator Ken MacMaster of the Office of the State Fire Marshall said Monday.

The pair admitted to making the bombs, he said. The contents in the bottles created a chemical reaction that caused them to explode, MacMaster said. No one was hurt and no property was damaged but the potential was there, because they added BB's, he said.

The explosion of two acid bombs Saturday night in Longmont — with no injuries — have police on a hunt to catch the bomb makers before someone gets hurt.

Acid bombs generally consist of a plastic bottle filled with an acid and a reacting base. They don't rely on a timer or fuse to explode, but usually the bomber has time to run before the chemical reaction results in explosion.

"It is a felony crime to us," said Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur. "But more important this is extremely dangerous because they are so unpredictable you can't predict when they will go off. It could be while you're holding it or placing or someone could see it and pick it up."

"I'm guessing it is a couple of school age kids who read about it or heard about it and decided to make it," Satur said.

The first bomb exploded on the porch of a home in the 1600 block of Green Place at about 10:15 p.m. Another, placed under a vehicle parked in the 700 block of Elliot Street blew up about one-half hour later.

EDMONDS, Wash. -- Police say two homemade bombs went off at Edmonds-Woodway High School on Monday.

The bombs, which were placed inside two trash cans in a school cafe, exploded Monday just before 11:45 a.m., according to school principal Michelle Trifunovic.

Fire investigators say the explosives were bottles containing a common household chemical. When the chemical was sealed, the pressure forced the bottles to explode.

In a note to parents, Trifunovic said the small explosions didn't damage the building and nobody was injured.

A 43-year-old man injured in a Sunday night blast was making an explosive mixture, Fort Wayne Police investigators believe.
Through a search warrant, bomb technicians with the department's Hazardous Devices Unit discovered several items inside the 2600 River Cove Trail home that are commonly used to make bombs or explosive devices.
Police said Monday they believe the man contacted a hardened substance with a chisel, causing it to explode. The exact chemical makeup of that substance remains under investigation.

Police are investigating a small explosion outside a Boys & Girls Club in Fresno Tuesday morning.

It happened around 8:30 a.m. on Fulton, near Fresno's Tower District.

Trash collectors were picking up dumpsters when they heard a loud explosion.

Police and fire crews responded and determined the explosion came from a homemade chemical bomb.

Sean Johnson with the Fresno Fire Department said, "These types of devices are sometimes thought of as a prank; they're very dangerous. You shouldn't mess around with any type of pressurized device; you can get yourself hurt.

LAFAYETTE, Colo. -- A Lafayette woman is still in the hospital recovering from severe injuries after an explosive device detonated in her car on Saturday.
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While police are not releasing much information about the investigation, explosive experts are weighing in on the danger of homemade explosives.

"Unfortunately, there are countless ways to make a bomb like this using any household chemical," said Dr. April Hill, with Metropolitan State College of Denver. Dr. Hill specializes in chemical improvised explosive devices, and believes whatever injured Allyson Stone and her husband Chris was a chemical explosion.

According to Dr. Hill, whoever placed the explosive device inside a paper bag that exploded the Stone's car could have made it from any number of instructions available online.

"If you mix the right chemicals in, say, a pop bottle, then the pressure builds," Dr. Hill says. "You're building up heat and gases, so then when the bottle explodes you have hot gases and hot liquids being spewed throughout. That's probably what caused the burns."

ATF Agent Brad Beyersdorf says the device is fairly rare.

"It is something that AFT does investigate on occasion," Beyersdorf says, "but just there's not been a time in the recent past that I could say that has occurred in the Denver area."

WINTER HAVEN | New Year's Day explosions have led to four juveniles being charged with possessing a destructive device.

The four boys were arrested after exploding plastic bottles behind the apartment complex where they live, according to reports from the Winter Haven Police Department following a joint investigation with the Winter Haven Fire Department.
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The explosions took place Sunday and again Wednesday behind Palm Place Apartments at 2041 Second St. N.W.

KOKOMO, Ind. (WISH) - Kokomo police are investigating the origins of two explosive devices found Friday morning in two mailboxes located about 2 miles apart, according to our partners at the Kokomo Tribune .

Maj. Tony Arnett said Friday afternoon police found two small chemical-based, homemade bombs that “fizzled,” but did not explode inside two mailboxes.

KPD officers, members of the department’s bomb squad and the HazMat team from the Kokomo Fire Department first were called just before 10 a.m. to a residence at the corner of Philadelphia Drive and Webster Street on a report of an explosive device that was denoted inside a mailbox.

The mail carrier who was delivering the mail to the resident was overcome by fumes from the device when he opened the mailbox. He was treated at the scene and released, Detective Sgt. Doug Stout reported.

SANTEE (CNS) - Chemical acid bombs made with plastic water bottles exploded in front of a Santee residence Wednesday, resulting in three arrests, but no one was injured.

The bombs exploded in the 9400 block of Mast Boulevard about 5:30 a.m., said Detective Dan Wilson of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. The detective described the damage as minimal.

Shortly afterward, deputies stopped a vehicle nearby and arrested the three occupants, according to Wilson, who said items related to the bombs were allegedly found inside the vehicle.

The San Luis Obispo County Hazmat team was sent to investigate and clean up after someone detonated a device commonly called a chemical bomb shortly before 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Atascadero High School.
Atascadero police said the explosion of the small chemical bomb did not cause any permanent damage and no one was hurt. However, it is a felony to make and detonate one of these devices.
The bomb maker apparently combined household cleaning supplies in a plastic bottle and sealed it causing a chemical reaction that made the plastic bottle expand and eventually explode, a process frequently taught in high school science classes.

ONTARIO, N.Y. — Authorities have charged two teenagers with tossing an explosive chemical bottle bomb into a crowded senior citizens center in western New York.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office says two 16-year-old boys went to the Brown Square Village in the town of Ontario and threw a plastic bottle containing noxious chemicals into the common area of the complex where residents gather to socialize.

Deputies say a resident kicked the bottle outside before it exploded.

The teens were charged with reckless endangerment and unlawfully possessing noxious material. They were released on appearance tickets.

Authorities say the bottle contained ingredients which when mixed can cause a chemical reaction resulting in an explosion.

A student was injured and another arrested after a homemade bomb exploded in class at El Capitan High School Tuesday.

The bottle bomb was set off inside a trash can just after 2 p.m. according to San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Melissa Aquino.

The teenager who detonated the bomb was interviewed at the Santee Sheriff’s Station and then arrested and booked into juvenile hall. The teen’s identity has not been released.

Another student who was passing by the trash can at the time of the explosion suffered minor injuries.

Hazmat was called out to make sure there were no additional threats. After a sweep of the area, deputies determined the explosion was isolated to the trash can in the classroom.

Classes are expected to resume Wednesday. 

SAN DIEGO -- An apparent bottle bomb detonated inside a Lakeside high school classroom during school hours Tuesday.
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According to authorities, the device exploded inside a classroom at El Capitan High School shortly before 3 p.m.
Grossmont Union High School District spokeswoman Catherine Martin told 10News a two-litter bottle containing an unknown substance was placed in a trash can inside the classroom during the school's 7th period.
Santee Fire Department officials and San Diego County sheriff's deputies were summoned to investigate and later determined that a pressurized chemical reaction occurred in what appeared to be a bottle bomb, causing the explosion and setting off school fire alarms.
No students or school staff members were seriously injured, but one student was transported after complaining of ringing in the ears, eye irritation and a headache.

Pennsylvania State Police are looking for whoever set off a homemade explosive device Friday in Lower Macungie Township.

State police at Fogelsville said someone placed the device outside Susan I. Sherry's home in the Spring Creek Apartments complex, in the 6600 block of Hauser Road.

The device was a plastic container filled with Drano and tin foil; mixing the materials caused a chemical reaction that led to an explosion at 5:24 p.m., police said. Authorities are calling the incident arson.

The contents of the container sprayed the victim's door and sidewalk, police said.

CHESHIRE, Conn. — Police and fire officials say what appears to be a homemade bomb has exploded in the Cheshire High School gym, but there are no injuries or damage.

Police Lt. Chris Cote tells The Hartford Courant Friday night that emergency responders who went to the gym found a plastic bottle filled with chemicals. The bottle was tossed into the gym near where the girls' volleyball team was practicing just after 5:30 p.m.

Police said two coaches were taken to a hospital after complaining of skin irritation.

Cote said state police are trying to determine who made the bomb and what was used. He said he had no information about a suspect or whether a student is suspected.

CLOVER -- 
Two teens were arrested Sunday after they allegedly threw a homemade explosive device at a Clover house.
Joshua Archer Denning and Evan Wyman Wallace, both 17 and of Marietta, Ga., have been charged with three counts each of causing an explosion that damaged a building. Wallace is also charged with possession of drugs.
Each is being held in Moss Justice Center on $5,000 bond.

On Sunday, a resident of Quinn Road in Clover reported an object they described as a bottle being thrown from a car at the home, which then exploded, according to a Clover Police report. A car was leaving the neighborhood as officers arrived, and the caller waved police toward the fleeing car.

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - San Diego police and arson investigators are searching Thursday for the suspects who set off a bomb in Ocean Beach overnight.

Around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday a neighbor called 911 to report a loud explosion near the intersection of Bacon Street and Brighton Avenue.

When fire crews arrived, they discovered an acid bomb had been set off. Hazmat workers spent hours cleaning up the scene and making it safe for those living in the area.

Fire investigators say this kind of bomb is extremely dangerous and this is just the latest in a string of explosions in the Ocean Beach area.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY – Loud explosions echoed through the northern part of St. Joseph County Thursday afternoon as bomb squad and hazardous materials technicians worked to burn off materials found in a Currant Road home.

Experts felt it was safer to dig trenches and do so on the 5-acre property owned by 65-year-old Stan Warren, rather than remove the chemicals and risk an explosion while transporting them somewhere else, said St. Joseph County police Sgt. Matt Blank.

They also brought in a chemist to help identify some of the products that weren’t marked. Blank said that took less time and allowed technicians to get rid of the materials more quickly than if they were taken off site.

Police found Warren dead behind his home Wednesday morning. He built an explosive device to take his own life, Blank said.

Authorities closed a portion of the 55,000 block of Currant Road more than 24 hours after finding about 3,000 pounds of explosive materials from Warren’s basement and a storage shed behind the home.

PUTNEY -- Police are investigating the detonation of an explosive device at the Landmark College campus.
On Friday, at about 7:40 p.m., members of the Vermont State Police and the Putney Fire Department responded to the college after the school’s security heard the blast across the campus. The explosion was described as "loud as a 12-gauge shotgun blast," according to campus security.
The device used was described as an "over-pressure device" which in this case was a plastic container that contained at least two substances that when mixed caused a chemical reaction producing a gas inside the closed container, Sgt. Mike Sorensen said.
"When the pressure became too great the container ruptured and the explosion resulted," he said.
No one was injured as a result of the incident, Sorensen said.

PORTLAND — Portland police are looking for the person who threw a chemical bomb at the Occupy Maine encampment in Portland during the early morning hours today.

Sgt. Glen McGary said police responded around 4 a.m. today to an explosion in Lincoln Park at Congress and Pearl streets.

Though no one was injured, McGary said the homemade bomb, which consisted of chemicals poured into a plastic Gatorade container could have caused serious injury.

Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion after police found "a small quantity of unknown chemical" in a Nottinghamshire house.

A 320ft (100m) cordon was placed around the property on Central Avenue in Mapperley Top as a precaution on Thursday morning.

Police were carrying out a search at the house near Nottingham when they found the substance.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Police said they caught kids making chemical bombs in a northeast Albuquerque neighborhood.
An explosion happened in the back of a home, and the children actually made three bombs, according to police.
No one answered the door at 3505 Glorieta Street in northeast Albuquerque on Monday, but police are investigating what a neighbor called 911 about.
“There’s some kids across the street from my house, making some kind of explosive noise, they have a white gallon container and something yellow,” said a 911 caller. “They're making loud popping noises with it.”

reliminary investigations into the Delhi high court bomb blast have indicated that a nitrate-based explosive was used.


"A small crater has been created where the explosive was placed. Examination of the blast site indicates that a nitrate based explosive with traces of PETN or Pentaerythritol Trinitrate was used," said U K Bansal, special secretary home department. Bansal also added that PETN is an "explosive of choice".

Apparently, PETN is used for heart ailments to smoothen the blood flow. The chemical which was discovered by German forces in World War-I has become a favourite terror toy in the hands of organisations like Lashker-e-Tayiba, Hizbul Mujahideen [ Images ] and Al-Qaeda [ Images ] which have used it globally to cause mayhem.


However, traces of PETN in the explosive used has come as a huge surprise to forensic experts. "There are very few cases in the country where the use of PETN has been detected. This explosive is not very easily available," said a former director of forensic laboratory in Maharashtra [ Images ].

DAVAO CITY -- Classes for both secondary and high school levels at a public school here were temporarily suspended after smoke came out of a boys' toilet inside the campus Thursday afternoon.

Farther north, a real bomb exploded inside a public school campus, although no one was hurt since it was too early for classes when the explosion happened.

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Inspector Jay Francia, of the special tactical platoon of the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) special anti-terrorist unit (Satu), told reporters at the City Council on Thursday that they were called in on suspicion that an improvised explosive device (IED) was found at the ground floor of the Stella Maris Academy of Davao high school department around 1 p.m. Thursday.

Classes were suspended while the bomb squad scoured the school's vicinity.

The smoke was traced to a toilet bowl where a half-burned six-inch high mug was found.

Initial investigation indicated that the mug contained chemicals that could cause a burning of sorts when mixed with water. A meter-long yarn was also found in the toilet.

Francia said that apparently, the mug was set up to fall into the bowl when the door is opened.

QUINCY, Mass. -- A bottle bomb went off on a front porch in Quincy. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but now police looking into similar incidents that might be connected.

A man inside his apartment heard his doorbell ring, and just before he opened up there was a loud explosion. Luckily the 60-year-old wasn't hurt.

Officers found the remnants of a bottle bomb - a two-liter bottle of Sprite blown to bits.

"They found a couple of materials such as the soda bottle, and some pieces of metal that they believe were part of the device that exploded, and the officers describes a smell - some sort of a chemical smell,” said Lt. Jack Sullivan of the Quincy Police Department.

Police say just before the man answered his door, he looked out his window and saw a couple of people standing out there, but he was unable to identify them.

Eleven-year postal veteran Patricia Matolyak of Saylorsburg suffered burns last week after an exploded chemical bomb splashed her as she opened a mailbox.

Matolyak, a carrier out of the Wind Gap office, was driving her regular route at about 10 a.m. when she arrived at a residence in the 300 block of Sexton Road in Bushkill Township, Northampton County, on Thursday. The home had a medium-sized post-mounted black mailbox. She had a bundled stack of mail in her hand. The lid stuck when she tried opening the box.

"That happens sometimes because mailboxes get sticky," she said. "I pulled on it pretty hard. When I did, the liquid splashed out on my hands, arms, face, chest and head."

At first Matolyak thought the liquid was water.

"My gut reaction was to close the mailbox, but when I did, it came back open and all the liquid came into the lid of the mailbox and started bubbling."

Inside the mailbox was a 16.9-ounce water bottle, foil and the liquid, which was suspected to be drain cleaner. The bomb had exploded earlier, and the liquid was pooled in the box and came out when the door was opened.

GIRARD - A 16-year-old Girard boy was taken by helicopter to the Burn Center at Akron Children's Hospital Wednesday following what officials said was an attempt to create a low-yield bomb in his backyard.

Dylan Herrick of 119 Crumlin Ave. suffered burns to his face and eyes when a homemade chemical bomb he was constructing exploded in his hands at around 2:15 p.m., according to a police report. When officers arrived, he was sitting on a neighbor's porch holding a towel over his face and complaining he could not see. An ambulance took Herrick to St. Elizabeth Health Center and he was later flown to Akron.

Police said the boy likely will face a felony charge alleging illegal manufacture of explosives.

The boy's brother, Dan, told police that Dylan had said he was going outside to make a ''works'' bomb, created by mixing chemicals with aluminum in a plastic bottle. When combined with certain chemicals, aluminum will create a chemical reaction that results in an explosion.

Oro Valley police officers today questioned three local, juvenile males in connection with homemade, chemical-reaction bottle bombs found in the youths' neighborhood.
One juvenile, determined by police to be the responsible party, was charged with misdemeanor misconduct involving explosives and Class IV felony depositing explosives. The remaining juveniles were remanded to their parents.
At 12:25 p.m., police investigated a chemical bomb explosion in the 11500 block of North Copper Queen Way. The investigation was prompted by a call from a homeowner who found remnants of a soda bottle filled with caustic chemicals in his front yard that morning; he believed they could be fragments from a "boom" he had heard the night before in the neighborhood, according to Oro Valley police Lt. John Teachout, public information officer for the department.

MANCHESTER — Police Tuesday night used a BB gun to “neutralize” three of four bottle bombs found on the floor of the unfilled Hunt Pool, 285 Maple St.

Officers responded to the pool at about 8 p.m. to meet with Manchester Fire Hazmat, which had discovered the four bombs.

One of the two-liter plastic bottles had already exploded, but three were still intact. Firefighters said the bottles contained battery acid and a piece of tinfoil, a combination that results in a chemical reaction that causes pressure to build and the capped bottles to explode, spewing acid.

After the bottle bombs were neutralized, the fire department hazmat unit retrieved the bottles and cleaned up the spill and debris.

Cambridge —
Two MIT dormitories were evacuated at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, after private contractors working on the third floor on the New House dorm on Memorial Drive found two pipes, both filled with ball bearings and a granular material, laid out next to a tub of chemicals.

The surrounding area was cordoned off, but a six-and-a-half hour investigation that involved the MIT Police Department, Cambridge Fire Department, Boston State Police, the Cambridge Bomb Squad, FBI and ATF agents, a HAZMAT unit, high-powered water cannons and sniffer dogs, ended when officials declared that the potential bomb was a “collection of harmless materials.”

Police department spokesman Dan Riviello said that an abundance of “suspicious material” warranted a full response.

Nine students were evacuated from New House, and the adjacent Next House facility was cleared after 11 a.m. Police blocked off a small surrounding area, which incorporated Amherst Alley and a neighboring car park.

Around 12 p.m. the Boston Police Department’s Twitter page had referred to the package as a “possible pipe bomb.”

LIVINGSTON -- Police arrested high school teacher Japhia Smith Huhndorf on Wednesday afternoon after officials say they found a vial of nitroglycerin in her chemistry lab at Livingston High School — her second arrest this week.
Police said they found about 4 milliliters of the explosive compound during an investigation, which sparked a schoolwide evacuation Wednesday. The 34-year-old chemistry teacher was arrested at her Atwater home the same day.
"We brought her here to the high school, and with her cooperation we were able to locate a small amount of nitroglycerin explosives," said Livingston police Sgt. Ray Fong.

Nitroglycerin can be used to make explosives and isn't normally found in a chemistry lab, according to Fong.
"That's an explosive substance, very volatile. Not really something you want to leave around," he explained. "It can go off with very little provocation."
The Merced Police Department Bomb Squad destroyed the nitroglycerin Wednesday afternoon, according to Fong. He said detectives are questioning Huhndorf about why she had the substance in her classroom.

Denton fire marshals arrested a man Friday afternoon on a charge of manufacturing a prohibited weapon.

Deputy Fire Marshal Chad Weldon said John Stephens, 26, was arrested after neighbors complained Wednesday night that he was setting off explosives in his yard on Howard Court.

The investigators found evidence of three bottle bombs, which are made with a combination of dry and liquid chemicals in a plastic two-liter bottle. They found no damage caused by the explosions, he said.

A homemade device exploded early Saturday morning inside a residential mailbox in northwest Napa, Napa Fire officials said.
A resident called at 1:21 a.m. from the 3900 block of Stover Street to report a loud explosion, Napa Fire Capt. Mike Dombrowski said. The resident saw smoke coming from the mailbox, which was moderately damaged, he said.
There were no injuries, he said. Fire crews cleared the scene at 2 a.m., he said.
A Napa Fire hazardous material technician was called out to investigate the chemical used in the incident, he said. It appears the explosive device in the mailbox was a large water bottle filled with pieces of aluminum foil and a Drano-type liquid, Dombrowski said.
Teenagers in other communities have been known to build them, he said, referring to the homemade device. “We are aware that this is becoming a problem,” he said.

MENDON, Mass. -- Police in Mendon are investigating after two buildings were targeted by someone throwing bottles full of an explosive liquid.

One of the bottle bombs was thrown out in front of a home on Park Street Friday evening. The family heard a loud explosion and then found remains of the bottle and chemicals on their driveway.

“They heard a large explosion outside in the front yard,” Detective David Kurzcy said. “They didn’t really think much of it for some reason -- ended up going to bed, didn’t call us. The next morning they were out washing their car, went to the end of the driveway, noticed the device.”

Around the same time, another bottle filled with chemicals was thrown in front of Alicante Mediterranean Grille where employees were wrapping things up for the night. One of their servers had a very close call.

“It was real warm chemical, little pellets inside of it, so I...curiosity trying to figure out what it was, until Joe said you probably should get rid of that,” Darren Johnson said. “We threw it into the trash receptacle over here, I took probably two steps away from there, and it blew up, so it was pretty close to being in my hand at the time that it had blown up.”

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Colorado Springs police are investigating a homemade chemical bomb explosion at a Colorado Springs apartment complex.

It happened around 11 p.m. Monday night at Stonebrook Apartments, located in the 4000 block of Tappan Drive.

Officers originally responded to a report of shots fired at the location.



At the scene, officers found the exploded homemade bomb.

Authorities say the bomb was made from a soft drink bottle, chemicals and aluminum foil.

Fire officials were able to diffuse the bomb with a neutralizing agent.

Authorities said no injuries were reported, and no suspects had been identified.

Three weeks ago, Tequesta Police Lt. Jason Turner heard in a class taught by a New York state fire marshal that young people are now far more likely to commit suicide by inhaling a mix of common household chemicals.

On April 9, three teenagers used those same chemicals to create bombs that exploded in local neighborhoods, police say.

After learning that the teens discovered how to create the bombs on YouTube, and knowing how easy it is to buy household chemicals, Turner is concerned that bomb-making could morph into an even more serious problem in Palm Beach County.

“I looked at the chemical compound they’re using,” Turner said. “And it just so happened these acid bombs they were making were the same type of chemical that’s being used in a lot of these chemical suicides around the nation and internationally.”

The United States ranks second in the world in the number of chemical suicides, trailing only Japan.

PORT CHARLOTTE - Charlotte County Sheriff’s detectives continue their investigation into one of two bombs exploding in a Port Charlotte restaurant parking lot Friday evening; one person was injured by chemical fumes.
 
CCSO received the call at 5:56 p.m. and dispatched deputies to Joe Crackers, 1020 Tamiami Trail. Witnesses told deputies they heard a loud bang and observed smoke coming from a plastic soda bottle they found in the parking lot. A 27 year old North Port woman said she saw the explosion and inhaled some of the smoke; she said it tasted like chemicals. EMS was called and deputies said she was treated and released at the scene.
 
While deputies checked the bottle that exploded, they located an unexploded one in the bushes nearby. Charlotte County Fire cleared both containers and turned them over to deputies for evidence and analysis.

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - Shreveport Fire investigators want to warn people to be careful when checking your mail. They have found 3 bombs in mailboxes since Saturday. The Fire Department says this type of explosive is usually in a bottle, possibly a soft drink bottle, with a chemical odor.

They've arrested 2 teenaged boys for allegedly making the devices. They think the boys found how to make them online.  If convicted, the boys could face up to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

So far, only one man suffered minor injuries, but they say it could have been a lot worse.

"Very dangerous. Very volatile. These are basically household chemicals that are being mixed together, but they can have a very volatile reaction," said Chief Scott Wolverton with the Shreveport Fire Department. 

A Portland hazmat crew is at Ron Russell Middle School in the David Douglas School District in Southeast Portland this morning after some kind of device exploded in a bathroom.

Emergency dispatchers received at call just before 8:30 a.m., reporting the release of a chemical at the school, located at 3955 S.E. 112th Ave. Paul Corah, spokesman for Portland Fire & Rescue said a "bottle bomb" had gone off in a bathroom and that one person had trouble breathing.

Corah said it wasn't clear what the device was. He said students are not being evacuated but will be kept in their classrooms.

Texas Resident Arrested on Charge of Attempted Use of Weapon of Mass Destruction
Suspect Allegedly Purchased Bomb Materials and Researched U.S. Targets
WASHINGTON – Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and resident of Lubbock, Texas, was arrested late yesterday by FBI agents in Texas on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with his alleged purchase of chemicals and equipment necessary to make an improvised explosive device (IED) and his research of potential U.S. targets.
 
The arrest and the criminal complaint, which was unsealed in the Northern District of Texas, were announced by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; James T. Jacks, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas; and Robert E. Casey Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Dallas Field Division.
 
Aldawsari is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court in Lubbock at 9:00 a.m. on Friday morning.  Aldawsari, who was lawfully admitted into the United States in 2008 on a student visa and is enrolled at South Plains College near Lubbock, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.
 

WINTER PARK, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Aloma Avenue was closed Monday evening for several hours as a hazmat team investigated a suspicious device which was left just outside the front doors of a Walgreen's located near N. Palmetto Avenue. A bomb squad with the Orange County Sheriff's Office was also called to the scene to X-ray the device in question.

Authorities were first contacted around 5:30 p.m. and it was later determined through the use of bomb-detecting equipment and a K-9 that the device was an explosive and required detonation. Shortly after 9 p.m., the Walgreen's store, the pharmacy parking lot and nearby business were evacuated and the device was removed and destroyed.

HUNTERSVILLE, NC (WBTV) - Huntersville Police were called to North Mecklenburg High School after school officials found an exploded small soda bottle inside a school trash can.

According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg School officials, students reported hearing a popping sound during school on Thursday. 

When administrators discovered the source of the noise, the Huntersville police were notified and called to the school.

According to a statement issued to parents by Principal Matthew Hayes, "A student placed Drano and aluminum foil in a small plastic bottle causing gases to build up and made a loud popping sound when the gases escaped."

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - Four people were arrested in connection with the discovery of suspected bottle bombs in the backyard of an apartment complex in the 1500 block of 42nd Street near Old Dominion University in Norfolk.

Leah Holloway, an ODU student living next door to the apartment complex where the four suspects live said she was the one who called 911.

"They were mixing bleach, Drano, and gasoline and trying to light it on fire. They were mixing chemicals for two hours. They actually left and came back to get more chemicals because the first set of chemicals did not work," Holloway said.

Fire officials arrived on scene just after 4 p.m. to find what they said appeared to be bottle bombs in the back of  the apartment complex.

The apartment building and a house next door were evacuated and part of Powhatan Avenue was blocked.

The bomb squad brought in a robot which fired shots at the bottles to render them safe and then investigators began examining the evidence to determine exactly what types of chemicals were used. 

Two charged with setting off bottle bombs in Cedar Rapids
by PAT CURTIS on MARCH 5, 2010
in CRIME & COURTS
Two men are facing charges for setting off two homemade chemical bombs at a Cedar Rapids apartment complex earlier this year. Tim Bowen III and Mitchell Adney, both of Cedar Rapids, were charged Thursday in connection with an incident at the Hawthorne Hills complex on the night of January 31.
Authorities were called to the complex on the city’s southwest side after a pair of bombs exploded. Several more of the so-called “MacGyver” bombs failed to go off. No one was injured. Bowen and Adney, both 22, are charged with reckless use of fire or explosives – a serious misdemeanor.
If convicted, they could face up to a year in prison and be fined one-thousand-875 dollars ($1,875). A fire department spokesperson says Adney’s former girlfriend lived in the apartment complex.

SAN DIEGO — Four teenagers were arrested on suspicion of setting off five chemical explosives Tuesday night that damaged driveways in front of homes in San Diego’s Ocean Crest neighborhood, authorities said.
No one was injured in the blasts,

the Salt Lake Police Department's Bomb Squad held a demonstration to show why homemade dry ice bombs and other chemical bombs can not only cause serious damage and injury, but also result in serious felony charges.

Two teens in New Hampshire are facing explosive charges after being accused of setting off bottle bombs.
Aaron Bailey and Christopher Vigue, both 17, of Hudson were arrested this weekend. Police said they were responding to reports of shots fired in Nashua when they found debris from a chemical explosion. Both Bailey and Vigue have been released on $10,000 bail.