FREEWAY CLOSED WHILE PIPE BOMB EXPLODED.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - Traffic was halted on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. for 40 minutes Tuesday because of the discovery of a pipe bomb in a nearby business park. Gardeners discovered the object about 8 a.m. in landscaping outside businesses in the 41300 block of 12th Street West, sheriff's deputies said. Sheriff's explosives experts were called, and the California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. shut down freeway traffic in both directions, between Avenues M and N, about noon to let them try to detonate det·o·nate intr. & tr.v. det·o·nat·ed, det·o·nat·ing, det·o·nates To explode or cause to explode. [Latin d the object with smaller explosives. The device was detonated on the third try, deputies said. The freeway reopened just before 12:40 p.m. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Traffic backs up for 40 minutes on Tuesday while a Sheriff's Department squad detonates a pipe bomb found beside the Antelope Valley Freeway. (2 -- 3 -- color) Officers, far left, discuss traffic safety while a bomb disposal squad, left, prepares to detonate a pipe bomb found in landscaping beside the Antelope Valley Freeway on Tuesday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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