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Bomb Threat Clears Lehigh County School For Second Time In Two Weeks
For the second time in as many weeks, a Lehigh County high school was evacuated Friday, Nov. 11 after administrators received a violent threat. Classes at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute in Schnecksville were canceled after administrators learned of a bomb threat at about 7:30 a.m., according to an announcement on the school's website. Administrators said they contacted state police, who are investigating the matter. As LCTI is a vocational school that draws students from several county school districts, buses that were already en route Friday morning were sent to t…
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Violent Threats That Cleared Allentown School Not 'Credible': Police
There is no evidence that the violent threats that forced students and staff to evacuate Dieruff High School in Allentown Thursday, Nov. 10 were "credible," say city police. The school district and police department both received multiple warnings of a violent attack at the school this morning via the anonymous tipster app Safe2Say, officials wrote. The building was placed on lockdown at about 10 a.m. before dismissing an hour later "out of an abundance of caution, they said. "The tips received through the Safe2Say program were thoroughly investigated and found to be unsubstant…
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Stranger On The School Bus: Man Hitches Ride With Bensalem Teens
"There's a strange man on this bus," was the terrifying message that Bensalem parents received from their children heading to school on Friday, Nov. 4. The teens reached out to their families after noticing that a grown man wearing a hoodie and a face mask had boarded their bus to Bensalem High School around 6:40 a.m., district officials said. Parents called 911, and police pulled the bus over at at Galloway and Mechanicsville roads, where Elliott Smith Jr., of Philadelphia, was arrested, 6abc reports. Smith, who had a warrant out for his arrest, was Smith is charged with un…
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Lehigh Valley High School Evacuated Over Illness Concerns, Dozens Hospitalized: District
A Bethlehem high school closed early on Friday, Nov. 4 after multiple students and staff reported feeling unwell, according to administrators. The Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School high school building on the 1600 block of Valley Center Parkway was evacuated "out of an abundance of caution," officials said on Facebook just before 2 p.m. First responders and hazmat crews were on-scene Friday afternoon evaluating the affected students and staff, administrators added. They did not describe the symptoms experienced or characterize the illness. At least 48 children…
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Bomb Threat Clears Chester County High School
Students were sent home early from a Chester County high school Thursday, Nov. 3 after administrators received a bomb threat, according to authorities. Kennett High School in Kennett Square Township received the warning at about 9:30 a.m., officials said. School staff evacuated students while township and county police swept the building with K9 units, they added. Students were put on buses and sent home by noon after the school was cleared, police said. The incident remains under investigation. To submit a tip, visit safe2saypa.org,
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Two Penn State Students Arrested For Threats Posted On Social Media: Authorities
Two Penn State Altoona students have been arrested in connection to threats they made on social media, authorities say. Juan Namakura, 19, of Illinois, was arrested first followed by Benjamin Dous, 20, of Pennsylvania for posting threats on the social media app Yik Yak — posting on the Altoona Penn State campus within 5 miles of each other on Oct. 30, according to the criminal complaints obtained by Daily Voice. Nakamura posted first writing "don't come to school Monday if you want to live," the police stated in the complaint. Dous reportedly wrote “This Juan gang y’all don…
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Lehigh School Suspends Classes Over Violent Threat
A Lehigh County high school canceled classes on Friday, Oct. 28 after administrators received a violent threat. Lehigh Career and Technical Institute in Schnecksville alerted police after receiving "a threat directed at the school," administrators said in a message on the school's website. Classes are scheduled to resume normally on Monday, Oct. 31, they added. The warnings came exactly two weeks after LCTI students and staff participated in a six-hour active intruder security drill, according to a post on the school website. State police are investigating the…
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Hit-Run Driver Sought In Philly Area School Bus Crash, Police Say
Authorities in Delaware County are searching for the driver who they say crashed into a school bus and fled the scene. Nether Providence Township police said a commercial truck hit a Wallingford-Swarthmore School District bus near the intersection of Providence Road and Meadow Lane just after 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26. No one on the bus was injured in the accident, officials added. The truck is described as an orange tree trimming truck, possibly Asplundh brand, with a white commercial logo on the doors. The left side of the truck is likely damaged from the crash, …
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Teen Charged With Terroristic Threats In Lehigh Valley High School Evacuation:
Update
UPDATE: A teen has been charged with terroristic threats after allegedly causing the evacuation of a Lehigh Valley high school early on Monday, Oct. 24, authorities announced. The 17-year-old — whose name was not released — was identified as the source of the threat that came into Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, requiring a full evacuation around 8:20 a.m., Bethlehem Police said. The threat was ultimately determined not to be credible, and students and staff have returned to the building on E. 3rd St. in Bethlehem to resume classes. The teen has been charged with terrorist…
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Native NJ Dad Of 3 Charged For Yelling Profanities At School Children In Pennsylvania: Police
A 43-year-old father of three yelled profanities at school children, authorities say. Nolan Bronner, currently living in Columbia Borough, but originally from Jersey City, New Jersey, yelled at the school children in a crosswalk on Oct. 17 at approximately 8:46pm, according to the release and his social media. An Officer with the Columbia Borough Police department heard Bronner yelling the profanities, the release details. "The Officer approached the male, known to him as Nolan J. Bronner...and told him he would be receiving a citation in the mail for disorderly conduct due to scaring near…
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Watch For NJ History Teacher As Ballgirl During Phillies
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Game Tonight
Game? What game? We're looking for Kelly Fleck. That's the 23-year-old New Jersey teacher who has been moonlighting as a Phillies' Ballgirl. The Robbinsville High School AP history teacher will be on the field for the entire game Saturday, Oct. 22, where she will have a front-row seat to watch the Phightin' Phils that even the Philly Phanatic would be jealous of as the team heads to Game 4 of the National League Championship Series against the San Diego Padres. If they're able to de-throne the Padres, the Phillies will make their first Wold Series appearance since 2009 and will have a sho…
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Shooting Threat Locks Down Philly High School: Report
John Bartram High School in southwest Philadelphia went under lockdown on Friday, Oct. 21 after violent threats were made online, according to a report by CBS News. An Instagram user posted an image with a rifle and the caption "gonna shoot up the school at 11:00 am," the outlet wrote citing police. As of 11 a.m., students were being allowed to move around the building but not to leave or re-enter, the report said. Only hours before the school locked down, Philadelphia School District announced that it received a $1 million to combat violence at Bartram High, according to WHYY.…
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