Initial investigative conclusions have been revised, determining that an explosion at the Chabad House in Santa Monica on Thursday was, in fact, an intentional act caused by a pipe bomb. Officials are now searching for suspect Ron Hirsch (aka Israel Fisher), a transient known by police to frequent Jewish centers in the area... more ›

UPDATE 11:01 AM: Streets around Chabad House are being reopened. FBI determined it was not a bomb or incendiary device that caused the explosion, according to a live report on KNX. A four-block area is closed off while authorities investigate the possibility of a hate crime after a pipe bomb explosion was reported near a Jewish synagogue at 17th and Broadway in Santa Monica. more ›

A backpack left inside a planter in the foyer of the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Street Division Station contained something other than homework or hiking gear, according to KTLA; it contained a pipe bomb. more ›

The suspicious package that shut down an area a few blocks from USC campus yesterday afternoon ended up actually being pipe bomb, reports Fox News 11. It was found attached to a woman's Jaguar vehicle at 35th Place and Normandie. Authorities were called, hundreds were evacuated from the neighborhood--reportedly, a four block radius--and the bomb squad detonated the device. more ›

A bomb threat called in at around 4 o'clock this morning indicated there was a pipe bomb at the Pershing Square Metro station. The call led "sheriff's deputies and police to shut down the facility," at 5th and Hill in Downtown, according to the Press-Telegram. Although Metro's Red Line trains were operational this morning they were "bypassing the Pershing Square stop," up until around 5:42, when "Bomb squad investigators and police dogs [who had] rushed to the scene to investigate the threat" determined it was a false alarm. A similar false alarm occurred at the Pershing Square station in March of 2007. more ›