Suspicious pipe piece prompts 2-hour shutdown of Loop 202 stretch

Suspicious pipe piece prompts 2-hour shutdown of Loop 202 stretch: "The discovery of what looked like a pipe bomb along a stretch of the Loop 202 prompted a shutdown of westbound lanes midmorning Monday, ensnarling traffic for post-holiday commuters for about two hours. An Arizona Department of Transportation worker found an 8-inch piece of metal pipe in the gravel on the Red Mountain Freeway, said Frank Valenzuela, state Department of Public Safety spokesman. The yellow-tinted pipe, found about 150 feet west of Center Road in a median between the westbound lanes and a frontage road, had caps screwed into both ends, Venezuela said."