'Spaced Out' LaGuardia Suspect Identified

(AP) - The main terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport was evacuated this morning, stranding hundreds of passengers, after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, the AP reports. The terminal was evacuated at around 5:30am after the man approached security in the airport's C concourse. It wasn't clear if the man made a threat, but security officials said he "was just acting crazy." The man's name was not released. More»

'This is very, very unusual': meteorologist

(NEWSER) - A rare October snowstorm has rolled up the East Coast and knocked out power to some 1.5 million people, MSNBC reports. The snowfall and ferocious winds have also delayed flights in Newark, New York, and Philadelphia—some by up to 6 hours. One live tracking site has tweeted more than 1,000 flight cancelations across the country. Threatening some areas with up to a foot of wet snow, the storm has knocked out power in New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. More»

Olajide Olwaseun Noibi snuck onto flight with someone else's expired pass

(AP) - A Nigerian man boarded a Virgin Atlantic airplane last week with an invalid boarding pass, according to the FBI. The man, Olajide Olwaseun Noibi, sneaked onto a flight from New York to Los Angeles and sat in the main cabin. When a flight attendant asked him to show his boarding pass, he produced an expired pass that belonged to someone else. Days later, airport officials found 10 expired boarding passes in his bag—none of them in his name. The TSA says Noibi was screened before he boarded the flight. He has been charged with being a stowaway. More»

Cargo 'bomb' in cake box went undetected on way to Turkey

(NEWSER) - British authorities are investigating how a fake bomb hidden in a wedding cake box was able to make it from the UK to Turkey without being detected. The package, containing a timer, wires, and a detonator, traveled on a UPS flight to Istanbul, reports the BBC . A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of creating the device. More»

Suspicious suitcase contained a prop, not explosives

(NEWSER) - The suspicious device found aboard a Namibian flight bound for Germany was a harmless fake designed to test local security, German authorities said today. “It is a so-called ‘real test suitcase’ from a US company,” Germany’s interior minister told Reuters . “This company produces alarm and detection systems, and these test suitcases are made to test security measures.” The suspect suitcase held batteries, a watch, and a detonator, but no actual explosives, meaning passengers were never in any danger, he said. More»