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U.S. and international authorities investigate whether multiple suspicious packages originating from Yemen found aboard UPS flights landing in Newark, N.J., Philadelphia and England are part of a terror group's rehearsal for a mail bomb attack.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Officials in Portland, Maine, say a suspicious item outside the federal courthouse is not related to investigations of susicious packages elsewhere.

The courthouse was evacuated Friday because of a backpack left outside the downtown building.

Law enforcement officials say the backpack was discovered in bushes near the courthouse entrance at 10 a.m. The bomb squad was on the scene, and began using a robot to probe the item at 12:39 p.m.

City spokeswoman Nicole Clegg describes the situation as a "localized event."

It coincided with a suspicious package being discovered in the United Kingdom that prompted searches of three UPS planes and a truck in the U.S. No explosives were reported to have been found.
 
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10:08 AM: Reports of a suspicious package have sent a slew of SFPD officers to Market Street, an SFPD spokesperson confirmed this morning.

Appeal contrib Katie Doze first noted that the whole block of Market near Fremont "in front of the Bank of America and Specialties and that statue is closed off with yellow police tape" and that a " gigantic bomb squad" truck was on the scene.

SFPD spokesperson Sergeant Troy Dangerfield confirmed that a "suspicious package" had been reported in the area, but he did not have any additional details at this time.

As of 10:13 AM, Market is closed "All the way to Battery, says Doze. "Cops just told us to move further away. They are taking it seriously."

10:43 AM: According to KRON4, the suspicious package in question was a piece of luggage discovered in front of an area Jamba Juice. A police officer they spoke to said that usually, this wouldn't be a big deal, but the luggage in question was discovered by a federal agent, who opted to call it in in an effort to be "better safe than sorry."

People who work in area buildings, they say, are being asked to stay indoors to "let the bomb squad do its job." They don't know how liong that will take, nor was SFPD able to say how long streets in the area would remain closed.
 
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