A discovery at the History Center of Freeborn County required a visit from the Albert Lea and St. Paul Police Bomb Squads. Museum officials called authorities Wednesday after finding three live grenades in their collections. Video posted on the History Center’s Facebook page shows officers wrapping up and removing the grenades. None of the explosives went off. No word on where the grenades came from.

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