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Article: MacCorkle Avenue shut down for mile because of bomb scare

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August 19, 2005
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Charleston Police shut down a one mile-stretch of MacCorkle Avenue near the University Of Charleston while they investigated a suspicious item believed to be a bomb.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department bomb squad was called to the scene Thursday afternoon and detonated a bottle that had been taped 4 feet up on a street sign. They later discovered the bottle did not ...

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