Police are still investigating the message found in a stall in the girls' bathroom.
A threatening message found in a bathroom stall at North Kingstown High School yesterday has been deemed "not credible" following an investigation by school officials and the North Kingstown Police Department. The message was found in one of the school's bathrooms around 8 a.m. Wednesday, prompting school administration to contact the NKPD. Following last week's mass shooting in Newtown, CT, school officials decided to notify parents via email about the incident. According to School Superintendent Phil Auger, these types of situations are not uncommon in North Kingstown. In April 2011, Davisville Middle School was evacuated twice in two days following two bomb threats. One of those threats led to the arrest of a custodian, who admitted …
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Police suspect a worker placed a threatening call to the closing hardware store.
A bomb threat that cleared Lowe's in North Kingstown for hours may have been made by a disgruntled employee, according to reports. At around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, the North Kingstown Fire Department received a call from an individual claiming that a friend who was once employed at Lowe's had placed a bomb in the store. North Kingstown fire and police officials evacuated the building before members of the Rhode Island Fire Marshal Bomb Squad arrived. After crews were unable to find anything suspicious, employees and customers were allowed to return to the building. According to police, the phone that made the threat to the fire department was a prepaid phone and untraceable. Police questioned a man whom they thought had been terminated …
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9:56 am on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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