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LI woman pleads guilty in false bomb threat

A Lake Ronkonkoma woman has pleaded guilty to phoning in a false bomb threat to an Arizona airport in September 2011 because she did not want her mother and brother to fly back to Long Island on the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, officials said.

Mary Purcell, of 8 Gail Dr., admitted in federal District Court in Central Islip on Friday that she called the Tucson...

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