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September 24, 2007

Bomb scare closes Tiverton High School early

TIVERTON -- School officials evacuated Tiverton High School today after receiving a bomb threat.

A caller dialed the main office today at about 11:30 a.m., claiming that a bomb would detonate in the building at noon, the School Department said in a news release. Students were immediately evacuated by their teachers to the football field, and the police and bomb-sniffing dogs searched the high school.

Police Chief Thomas Blakey said the police found no evidence of a bomb.

Students were released from school at 12:40 p.m., and all after-school activities were cancelled. The building was declared safe at 3 p.m., the school district said.

School will start on-time tomorrow.

-- Journal staff writer Meaghan Wims

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