AUBURN — Auburn Middle School was placed on “yellow lockdown” Wednesday morning, keeping students out of the halls for about 20 minutes while administrators and the school resource officer investigated what the superintendent called “inappropriate words” found in a bathroom. Superintendent Katy Grondin said the school, which has approximately 550 students, was placed in lockdown […]
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New law directs Maine schools to hold lockdown drills
AUGUSTA — Schools will have to hold lockdown drills under a new Maine law. Democratic Sen. Nate Libby’s bill went into law last week without Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s signature. It directs the Maine Department of Education to rewrite it rules to require schools to hold lockdown drills in addition to fire and other emergency […]
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West Gardiner school lockdown a false alarm
WEST GARDINER (AP) — A West Gardiner elementary school went into lockdown last week when a staff member reported someone inside with a gun, but it turns out the armed person was a Maine State Trooper. Even though it turned out to be a false alarm, the superintendent of the school district says proper procedure […]
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Use of force to be studied in D.C. police chase
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington are reviewing the use of officers’ deadly force in the killing of a woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier, a shooting her family says was unjustified. The investigation will reconstruct the car chase and shooting, which briefly put the U.S. Capitol on lockdown, […]
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Naples schools locked down Tuesday after ‘concerning’ Facebook post
NAPLES — WMTW reported that Lake Region High School and Lake Region Middle School were on lockdown Tuesday morning after receiving what the school district described in a note to parents as a Facebook message that created “possible concern of the safety to our (high) school.” Officials at Regional School Unit 61 were apparently notified […]