Police arrested a Disneyland employee on suspicion of putting a so-called dry ice bomb in a theme park trash can where it exploded, authorities said Wednesday. Even though no one was injured by the blast, Disneyland evacuated the Toontown section where the incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon.
U.S. Representative Michelle Bachmann, leader of the Tea Party movement, announced that she will not seek re-election, and will retire from the House of Representatives.
Hal McClure, who covered two Arab-Israeli wars and living a successful career as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press died at 92 in California, McClure died on Sunday at a Laguna Hills hospital following surgery to relieve a blood clot on his brain from a recent fall, his sister Virginia said.
A train derailed off the tracks on Tuesday afternoon in White Marsh, Maryland, causing a massive explosion, but just one injury. The derailment of the train affected nearby homes, rattling them. The train went off the tracks at about 2 p.m. "It shook my house pretty violently and knocked things off the shelves," an eyewitness Dale Walston said.
