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A suspicious package in Norfolk turned out to be a spit can! Norfolk Police, Fire, and Bomb Squad spent the morning investigating the suspicious package at the intersection of East Little Creek Rd and Old Ocean View Rd. Chris Amos of the Norfolk Police Department said the package was found in front of a bus stop. That section of Ocean View was blocked off to traffic while they sent in a robot to check out the package. Surrounding buildings were evacuated. The spit can was detonated and no one was injured!

I'm angry. I'm angry at the 'antiwar' protesters who heaped abuse on our troops. And I'm angry at the people who couldn't be bothered to stand up for our troops yesterday.Tens of thousands of anti-American leftists and their dupes marched on our nation's capital calling for America's defeat in the war on terror in Iraq.Only about forty people could be bothered to turn out in support of America's victory in Iraq. Among those forty was a civilian POW held by the North Vietnamese communists and several Iraq war veterans--including wounded warriors who left the hospital to stand up for their...

TORONTO (CP) — A suspicious package on board an Air India jet has forced it to return to Toronto’s Pearson Airport. Peel region police say Flight 188 was one hour into a flight to India, with a stop in Birmingham, England, when an alert was sounded and the pilot returned to Toronto. Police say the passengers were evacuated from the plane at around 11 p.m. Eastern. A package was located on the aircraft, according to the Toronto Star, but police have not yet revealed the contents. The plane, which remains at an isolated area of the airport, reportedly carried 140...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police blew up a suspicious package in a car parked near the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than two hours after the two occupants told authorities they had an explosive in the vehicle. Police said they were interviewing two men they took from the car to determine if the package was a bomb. (...)At 1:11 p.m., the Capitol Police bomb squad "disrupted" the package -- the police term for destroying it. The door of the car, a 2005 gray Chevrolet Impala, blew open at the time of the controlled explosion. (...)No evacuations were ordered for the Capitol,...

Streets have been closed. Breaking News on Fox News Live

Suspicious packages turned up at four foreign missions and at Parliament House in Canberra today. The packages were received by the British high commission and the United States, Japanese and South Korean embassies. Each of the embassies that received the packages represents a country with troops in Iraq. "We can confirm the commission received a suspicious package earlier this morning," a British high commission spokesman said. "We are following AFP [Australian Federal Police] guidelines at present." The US embassy in Canberra has been closed. "I can confirm that the US embassy did receive a suspicious package," a US embassy spokeswoman...

Suspicious device found in terminal. A,B,C serve Alaska, NW and Southwest. Developing.

Just announced on a local radio station - The Minneapolis bomb squad has detonated a device found in a downtown intersection. No further details yet.

Bank employees hospitalized after suspicious package found in mail cart By The Commercial Appeal January 10, 2003 Six employees at the Union Planters Bank Administrative Center at 7130 Goodlett Farms were taken to a hospital this morning after a package, soaked in some kind of substance, was discovered in a mail cart. Division Chief Clarence Cash Jr. of the Shelby County Fire Department said the department received a call to the facility at 10:17 a.m. Cash said the package was discovered by employees on the third floor of one of the buildings in the bank complex. The six employees were...

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