A Texas man kept a Civil War-era artillery shell on his desk for years, believing it was nothing more than a harmless dummy ...

For years, Steve Martin of Atascosa County, Texas, kept a heavy, rust-coloured object on his desk as a conversation piece, unaware it was a potentially deadly Civil War artillery shell. His son, ...

George Cheetham was cleaning out his grandmother's garage when he found World War I explosive shells that "still had tops on" The pair reported the discovery to the police, and a bomb squad was called ...