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Schools hit with fake shooting threats across US; FBI probes possible link
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Swatting in North Carolina schools: dozens of schools targeted by hoaxes, including in the Piedmont Triad
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A horrible hoax': School swatting takes phony threats to a new, emotional, costly level
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School threats are not jokes or pranks, officials say after Upstate school ' swatted
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Police Nationwide Besieged by False School Shooting Calls
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Hoax calls about active shooter put eastern Washington schools -- including Pullman High -- on alert, Local
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Across North Carolina, school 'swatting' hoaxes waste time and create terror
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A horrible hoax': School swatting takes phony threats to a new, emotional, costly level
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Schools across NC receiving hoax shooting threats
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Hoax calls put schools in eastern Washington on alert -- including Clarkston, Pullman and Pomeroy high schools, Local and regional news, Lewiston Tribune
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South Carolina: FBI responds to fake calls about school shootings
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Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer
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FBI probes CT school swatting calls that are happening nationwide
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Several swatting incidents reported at Conn. schools