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Bishop State Community College in Mobile, Ala., evacuated its campus and moved classes online Thursday morning due to a threatening email.<\/p>\n
At least four campuses on Thursday received swatting calls\u2014false reports of active or impending threats intended to disrupt operations and whip up a significant police response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Early Thursday morning, officials at Villanova University outside Philadelphia received a \u201cthreat of violence targeted at an academic building\u201d and quickly closed their campus and canceled all activities. University officials issued an all clear at 1:36 p.m. on Thursday and noted that the FBI and local law enforcement were continuing their investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alcorn State University in Mississippi initiated a campus lockdown Thursday morning due to a \u201csafety threat,\u201d which officials cleared several hours later. Wiley University in Texas also locked down its campus due to a \u201cthreat via email\u201d and lifted the lockdown at noon Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bishop State Community College in Mobile, Ala., evacuated its campus and moved classes online Thursday morning due to a \u201cthreatening\u201d email, college officials said. A nearby elementary school also entered lockdown due to the same threat, AL.com reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
K\u201312 schools across the country have also seen an uptick in swatting calls in recent days. Four schools in the San Diego Unified School District were the target of swatting calls Tuesday. Several Maine schools also received threats on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear whether any of these threats are related. In August, colleges and universities across the country experienced a wave of swatting incidents that were later claimed by an extremist group. About a month later, seven historically Black colleges and universities received false bomb threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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