Firefighters responded to an explosion at Arxada, a specialty chemicals company on McKee Road, shortly after 1 a.m. on October 29. The explosion caused extensive damage to the Train 2 building, along with the internal equipment, according to the Rochester Fire Department.

Specialty Chemical Company Evonik and the Calvert City Industrial Mutual Aid Program — a coalition of several chemical manufacturers in the Calvert City area — will conduct a joint emergency response exercise on November 2. For the first time, the annual CIMAP exercise will involve an active shooter scenario.

A survivor of the mass shooting at Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley said the shots did not come rapidfire, but one at a time separated by several seconds, likely because the shooter’s gun kept jamming. “I did not have a sense he had any set targets,” the survivor said. “My sense was he saw someone moving and he shot.”

They say the incidents underscore a huge security vulnerability, made worse by gaps in federal law, that they fear could result in deaths and injuries.

The Cisco vulnerabilities could give attackers root access, create a denial-of-service condition, or allow privilege escalation. Cisco Emergency Responder works together with Cisco Unified Communications Manager to enhance its 9-1-1 functionality by identifying the location of emergency callers so the calls can be routed to the appropriate public safety answering point.

Bucks County, Pennsylvania authorities allege nine defendants scaled utility poles to steal wire for copper throughout the county. The group operated between May and October stealing Verizon wires from utility poles. The thefts cost the company more than $250,000 to replace, according to a Bucks County District Attorney’s Office press release.

The aerospace giant said it is alerting customers that its parts and distribution systems have been impacted by cyberattack.

The man responsible for two bomb threats at an aerospace laboratory on Center Street in Meriden, Connecticut, in February has been arrested, police say.

A bipartisan congressional delegation led by California Democrat Senator Alex Padilla and Republican Representative Doug LaMalfa sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging them to prioritize “critical emergency repairs” to levees in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River watersheds.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new bill into law on October 13 to accelerate flood control and levee upgrades on the Pajaro River.

A sprawling manhunt was underway for Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Robert Card, the prime suspect in the mass shooting at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine. Police said Card recently reported mental health issues; threatened to "shoot up the National Guard base" in Saco, Maine; and had been committed to a mental health facility during the summer.

American activist group Codepink attempted to shut down an Elbit Systems facility in Massachusetts in protest of the fighting in the Middle East. Elbit Systems, an Israel-based international defense electronics company, is the largest weapons supplier to Israel. The company's American subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America, also has operational facilities in Texas, New Hampshire, Alabama, Virginia and Florida.

A Federal judge temporarily barred the Federal Government from removing or cutting razor wire Texas authorities have placed in areas near the U.S. - Mexico border. The state of Texas is suing the Biden administration over what they call CBP’s practice of "cutting, destroying, or otherwise damaging Texas’s concertina wire that had been strategically positioned for the purpose of securing the border and stemming the flow of illegal migration."

A man has been charged with making dozens of bomb threats to public libraries, schools, businesses, government offices, and police departments over the past several months. The threats included claims he had planted bombs on top of a Skokie Police Department building and would shoot anyone who came to stop him.

Authorities briefly ordered evacuations for most of the town of Middleton, Idaho, after they said a gas pipeline exploded at a nearby rural intersection. The Canyon County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy says someone using an excavator ruptured the line and caused the explosion on October 12. The ruptured line is part of an interstate pipeline that carries natural gas through several states in the northwestern U.S. owned by the Williams Companies, a natural gas distributor.

The DHS Office of the Inspector General scrutinized a set of Transportation Security Administration rules written in response to the landmark Colonial Pipeline hack. “TSA did not ensure all pipeline operators timely adhered to security requirements contained in the directives,” the watchdog wrote in a report dated September 26. “TSA also did not follow up and track the pipeline operators’ assessments of the effectiveness of their cybersecurity practices.”

Local and federal law enforcement agencies across the United States are stepping up their patrols of Jewish houses of worship, Jewish-owned businesses and Israeli diplomatic buildings as calls for attacks on the Jewish community in the United States intensify online. Former Hamas leader Khaled Mashal recently called for October 13 to be a global day of “anger” in support of the recent Hamas attack on Israel.

Leaders from Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian American groups told CNN in the days since Hamas’ surprise attack they have seen an increase in attacks reported against their communities, including vandalism, bullying at school and in the workplace, and threatening phone calls.

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are among the Wall Street banks advising their staff in Israel to work from home after an invasion by militants from Palestinian Islamic group Hamas sparked a war in the country.

The person who shot a protester on September 28 outside the Rio Arriba County government headquarters had previously been investigated by the FBI for his posts on social media that suggested a violent attack on the country’s central banking system.

A woman, whose father was killed October 25 by a gunman at Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, said she previously worked at the bar and believes that she recognized the suspected shooter as a customer. A total of seven people were killed inside the bar and one other was killed outside, officials said. Seven others were killed at a nearby bowling alley, Just-In-Time Recreation, and three people who were wounded in the shootings died at area hospitals.

Arkansas on October 17 ordered the subsidiary of a Chinese-owned company to divest itself of 160 acres (774,400 square yards) of agricultural land, the first such action under a wave of new laws across the country restricting foreign ownership of farmland. Northrup King Seed Co. has 2 years to divest the property in Craighead County under legislation passed earlier this year. Northrup is a subsidiary of Syngenta Seeds, which is owned by China National Chemical Company, or ChemChina, a Chinese state-owned company.

Local and federal law enforcement in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital on October 13 they are ramping up their presence in the nation’s capital as Hamas’ call for a "Day of Rage" is putting American cities on alert. "We are enhancing security throughout the Capitol Complex,” the U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News Digital in a statement.

The White House said it will deploy cybersecurity experts to schools amid a sharp rise in antisemitic threats and incidents at campuses across the country. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security are also working with campus police departments to track hate-related rhetoric, which includes rising Islamophobia as well.

Customer profile information shared through the company’s DNA Relatives feature had been accessed without authorization. The Connecticut Attorney General sent a letter of inquiry to genetic testing and ancestry company after a reported data breach that exposed the records of over five million users, including specifically those of Ashkenazi Jewish and Chinese heritage.

Jonestown man pleaded guilty in a federal court in Austin to possessing a pipe bomb that detonated on August 9 in a hospital parking garage at St. David’s Hospital in Austin, Texas.

Federal authorities say that thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program.

Atlassian has warned of a critical security flaw in Confluence Data Center and Server that could result in "significant data loss if exploited by an unauthenticated attacker."

Poor recordkeeping on hazardous waste disposal points to potential for bigger problems, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Ecological Indicators, compared records on Pennsylvania’s oil and gas waste from 2010-2020, and uncovered significant gaps between what oil and gas operators reported they had sent to landfills and what the landfills reported receiving.

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (aka Hidden Cobra or TEMP.Hermit) has been observed using trojanized versions of Virtual Network Computing (VNC) apps as lures to target the defense industry and nuclear engineers as part of a long-running campaign known as Operation Dream Job.

Aviation experts say the incident in which an off-duty pilot tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews questions about the threat posed by insiders — airline workers who have special access to places where passengers can't go. Events like the one on October 22 on a Horizon Air jetliner are very rare, but they are potentially devastating. The captain and co-pilot prevented disaster by subduing the off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who — from his perfect vantage point in the cockpit jump seat — tried to cut fuel to the engines.

The toll from a fiery pileup in dense fog on a Louisiana interstate has risen to eight dead and 63 injured. Authorities announced the new totals a day after “super fog” of marsh fire smoke and fog snared more than 160 vehicles in the pileup on Interstate 55 on October 23.

A dam that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say was constructed illegally in Mason County, Texas, is blocking water from flowing toward the Highland Lakes, which serve as Austin’s drinking water supply.

About 100,000 industrial control systems (ICS) were found on the public web, exposed to attackers probing them for vulnerabilities and at risk of unauthorized access. Among them are power grids, traffic light systems, security and water systems. Cybersecurity company BitSight alerted of the threat after identifying the problem in multiple sectors.