Wednesday, November 14 2012 3:08 PM EST2012-11-14 20:08:15 GMT
All schools in the Susquehanna Township School District have been evacuated due to a bomb threat.Susquehanna Township police are searching all of the buildings. After police clear a building, studentsMore >>
All schools in the Susquehanna Township School District have been evacuated due to a bomb threat.More >>
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -
Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for making a bomb threat Wednesday morning that lead to the evacuation of every school in the Susquehanna Township School District.
"The school will blow up in two hours," the caller told the person on the other line at the district's office.
Police said the call that came in around 9 a.m. was traced and they later took the boy into custody. He was charged with making terrorist threats and threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction.
District officials had evacuated nearly 3,000 students, including the suspect, from four different schools.
High school freshman Shaqwan Franklin said he was startled when an announcement was made over the public announcement system.
"I was nervous a little bit because I didn't know what was going on," said Franklin. "I didn't know if it was real or fake. So, I just listened and went to the football field."
Huddled inside the stadium, students waited for almost two hours as police swept each building. In the end, police did not find a bomb and students returned to the classrooms by 12:30 p.m.
"This is the first time I've ever heard this happen," Franklin said.
District officials said it is policy to allow parents and guardians to pick up students during an emergency.
Wednesday, June 19 2013 6:45 PM EDT2013-06-19 22:45:42 GMT
The Lebanon County Detective Bureau has filed charges against a Lebanon area man accused of sexually abusing two girls who were 11 and 12 years old.More >>
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Wednesday, June 19 2013 6:13 PM EDT2013-06-19 22:13:11 GMT
The murder arrest of a Harrisburg man already facing trial on sex crimes has shed new light on an old problem with Pennsylvania's criminal justice system.More >>
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Wednesday, June 19 2013 5:47 PM EDT2013-06-19 21:47:23 GMT
Harrisburg's police union has reached a tentative agreement with the city receiver's office that would lift a requirement for uniformed police officers to live inside the city limits. Jason Brinker, presidentMore >>
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Wednesday, June 19 2013 4:48 PM EDT2013-06-19 20:48:33 GMT
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Wednesday, June 19 2013 1:25 PM EDT2013-06-19 17:25:45 GMT
Joe Wissler said back on July 11, 2010 his son was attacked, from behind and struck in the head with an object. His son, Joe Wissler IV suffered brain damage and almost three years after, is still in aMore >>
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Wednesday, June 19 2013 10:10 AM EDT2013-06-19 14:10:34 GMT
One person was flown to the hospital this morning and another taken by ambulance after a multiple vehicle accident on Route 22/322.The accident blocked traffic on both directions of the Clarks Ferry Bridge.More >>
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Sunday, June 16 2013 4:32 PM EDT2013-06-16 20:32:52 GMT
The westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike are closed near the Susquehanna River Bridge due to a multi-vehicle crash.Authorities said there are traffic incidents near mile markers 241.9 and 247.4.TheMore >>
The westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike have reopened following a multi-vehicle crash at the Susquehanna River Bridge in Dauphin County.More >>
Tuesday, June 18 2013 7:06 PM EDT2013-06-18 23:06:30 GMT
A Harrisburg man charged in the murder of an 87-year-old woman was looking for someone else when he stabbed Joyce Roth in a Hershey area home last week, according to prosecutors.More >>
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