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🌱 Patch AM: Bomb-Making Materials Uncovered During Search Of Mansfield Home: State Police

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  • Bomb-making materials reportedly found inside a Mansfield Hanks Hill Road home

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📰 News we're reading

• Bomb-Making Materials Uncovered During Search Of Mansfield Home: State Police (patch.com) — Residents in Mansfield may be alarmed after state police searching a Hanks Hill Road home reported finding multiple items commonly used to make homemade bombs, including a powerful drain cleaner. The 30-year-old resident, initially charged with threatening and reckless endangerment, now faces probable-cause findings for additional explosives-related charges as the case moves toward an Oct. 28 court date.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes?" — So when they come back to port they can just scan-da-navi-an! (Thank you Jessica C. for sending it in!)
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