College Bomb Threats Prompt Campus Evacuations In Texas, North Dakota, Ohio

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College Bomb Threats Prompt Campus Evacuations In Texas, North Dakota, Ohio

Associated Press

September 14, 2012

Thousands of people streamed off three college campuses Friday after bomb threats prompted officials to issue evacuation orders. The campuses of the University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University in Fargo had been deemed safe by early afternoon, and authorities were working to determine whether those threats were related. A third evacuation order for much-smaller Hiram College in Ohio was issued hours later but lifted Friday night after a sweep found nothing suspicious.

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