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Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the bombshell footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyLhI7YVweE

In an uh-oh episode of historic proportions, hand grenades from the last major battle of the Revolutionary War recently and repeatedly scrambled bomb squads in Virginia’s capital city. Wait – they had hand grenades in the Revolutionary War? Indeed. Hollow iron balls, filled with black powder, outfitted with a fuse, then lit and thrown. And more than two dozen have been sitting in cardboard boxes at the Department of Historic Resources, undetected for 30 years. Encrusted and corroded, no one realized what the grenades were when they were excavated in the 1980s along with 5,000 other relics from The Betsy,...

Hamas' so-called sappers managed to kill themselves and a foreign journalist Wednesday. Hamas terrorists accidentally killed at least four and maybe five of their own members and an Italian photo journalist Wednesday when they tried dismantling what apparently was an IDF artillery shell that did not explode. The Italian civilian was reportedly working for several news agencies, including Associated Press, according to the Greek news service ANSA. Several others, including a Gaza journalist and medics, were wounded in the blast around 11 a.m. in Beit Lahiya, located in northern Gaza. The incident occurred in a civilian neighborhood, one of...

A suspected World War Two bomb has exploded in a Bangkok scrap yard, killing at least seven people and injuring 19. Workers were using a blow-torch to take the bomb apart and detonated it in the process, officials say.

Virginia Man Killed In Civil War Cannonball Blast May 02, 2008 CHESTER, Va. — Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown. As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics — weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms. But in February, White's hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring...

BERLIN (BNO NEWS) -- German authorities on Thursday evacuated more than 20,000 people after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered in the city of Halle, officials said. The unexploded 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) wartime bomb was discovered by a man digging a ditch. At least 20,000 people, including all 500 patients at a local hospital, were forced to evacuate the area, the German dpa news agency reported. Local police chief Bernd Wiegand said everyone within a radius of 800 meters (0.5 mile) was ordered to evacuate. Six schools and the city's hospital had to close as a result.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized weapons caches May 25-26 in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad. At approximately 7:30 p.m. May 25, Soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, located three 60mm mortar rounds while conducting route clearance in the Masafee community. Soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division found two explosively formed projectiles while searching a residence in the Bayaa community at approximately 2:30 p.m. May 26. “These finds verify that the 1st BCT, ‘Raider‘ Brigade Soldiers are patrolling the streets daily to find weapon caches and the...

3/27/2008 - ALI BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Plums of smoke rose in the sky as Airman from the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron used C4 to detonate 13 piles of ordnance here March 26. The ordnance was discovered over a 159 acres area of the base by a six-Airman explosive ordnance disposal team and six augmentees. The team looks for and uncovers dangerous items such as unexploded ordnance, shrapnel, foreign fuses, rocket warheads and artillery projectiles. "The number one reason we do this is for safety on the flightline," said Master Sgt. Curtis Keel, the EOD flight chief, deployed from...

2/11/2008 - KAPISA PROVINCE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- Airmen from the explosive ordnance disposal, 755th Air Expeditionary Group, assisted Kohistan II district Afghanistan National Police with unexploded ordnance disposal Feb. 2. "The police chief requested our assistance with removing the UXOs during our last visit," said Tech. Sgt. Francis Warren, Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team Police Technical Advisory Team noncommissioned officer in charge. Sergeant Warren took action and contacted EOD for assistance. Tech. Sgt. Steven Nidzgorski, an EOD team leader, said UXO's and landmines pose a serious threat for locals and military personnel throughout Afghanistan. In the last six months, Sergeant Nidzgorski's...

With each step the soldiers took, their fawn-colored boots bore deeper into spongy, wet mud. They trekked slowly up a steep hill, eyes to the ground six feet ahead. All around them were dozens of pieces of unexploded ordnance, and one soldier, sidestepping a mortar round, chirped, “BOOM! Four soldiers were wounded in Iraq today….” His premonitory news telecast, though comically inclined, had also its share of relevance. The soldier, Maj. Collin Fortier, operations officer, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) knows the dangers that face his 3rd Battalion “Iron Rakkasans” during their current mission in...