Did you hear that explosion near Southridge High School? Kennewick Police are investigating what appears to be a homemade bomb that exploded in the Southridge High School parking lot.
The Richland Bomb Squad was called to the 4000 block of West Clearwater Monday, after police say someone found a hand grenade.
It appeared, upon examination, to be "inert," or having had the explosives removed, but the Bomb Squad took possession just to be safe...
The Lewis and Clark Bridge, which joins Longview and Ranier WA and spans the Columbia River into Oregon, has been temporarily closed while State Patrol troopers and a bomb squad deal with suspicious items found attached to the bridge.
Shortly before 12pm, police got reports that two backpacks strapped together were seen hanging from a support structure below the tech of the bridge...
The Richland bomb squad destroyed a suspicious metal briefcase on Saturday evening near American Rock Quarry. The suspicious case was reportedly left on Kennedy Road near a vineyard west of the quarry according to news reports of the Benton County Sheriffs Office...
The Richland Bomb Squad has been called all over the Columbia Basin and Southeastern Washington to help deal with suspicious devices, and detonate the occasional explosive device, but probably never came across one of these.