A convicted double murderer is set to die by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday — the first execution of its kind in the US in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual ...

By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night in the first such execution in the United States since 2010.

A police bomb squad responded to assess the situation, cops said. They safely exploded the first mortar shell with the help of a U.S. Air Force explosive disposal team. More mortar shells were found ...

What appears to be an "old military style mortar" was donated to a Goodwill in Mesa, the police department said on Thursday afternoon. The donation prompted a bomb squad to respond to the store at ...