INDEPENDENCE, Mo.-- Crew Finds Suspicious Package, Highway Closed While Police Investigate

[Ian David]

Crew Finds Suspicious Package
Highway Closed While Police Investigate
POSTED: 1:02 pm CDT July 9, 2007
UPDATED: 4:46 pm CDT July 9, 2007

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Work was halted on a bridge and a highway was shut down for a time Monday morning after construction workers found a suspicious package.

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Independence police and members of the Lee's Summit, Mo., bomb squad arrived.

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They didn't immediately say what the package turned out to be, but they said it was harmless.

Authorities shut down the northbound and soundbound lanes of 291 while they investigated.