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PARKLAND, Fla. — A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut...

Wareham Police and neighboring law enforcement agencies are responding to a motel where an occupant has reportedly barricaded himself in a room.

Old Rochester Regional High School and Junior High School were cleared of a threat that was made Thursday morning. Douglas White, Superintendent of the Old Rochester Regional School District, says a threat was reported to Mattapoisett Police just before noon Thursday, with officers from Marion, Rochester, and Mattapoisett responding to the campus...

UPDATE 2:20pm: The lockdown at URI is over.  A NERF gun was recovered by police at Chafee Hall.  State Police say there was no evidence at all that there ever was an active shooter or a firearm on campus at anytime today. Earlier:  11:50am   The University of Rhode Island is reporting on their Facebook page that their Kingston campus is in lockdown as state and local police are responding to repor