The Associated Press reports a bomb threat prompted the evacuation Connecticut's court buildings Friday:
"All we know right now is there was a bomb threat," said Wayne Sandford, deputy homeland security commissioner. "We're trying to get information on it as we speak."
The telephone threat was made about 10 a.m. on a constituent phone line answered by a staff member in Gov. M. Jodi Rell's office, gubernatorial spokesman David Dearborn said.
Local and state police bomb squads were notified about 11:30 a.m. that state police were requesting a sweep of state courthouses.
U.S. Marshal John Bardelli said bomb squads were sweeping federal courts in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford but that the courthouses remained open.
UPDATE: The Connecticut Post reports Connecticut courthouses were evacuated in response to five telephone bomb threats:
Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle said the state closed the courthouses after bomb threats were received at the governor's office and elsewhere around 10 a.m.
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A police source said a male caller threatened to detonate bombs at 2 p.m. at a state courthouse. State Police bomb squads were brought in to inspect each courthouse. The deadline passed without incident.
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