Increase in school threats seen all over U.S. this academic year

By Morgan Sweeney | The Center Square, via The Gazette

Schools in at least 35 cities or counties across Virginia have been targeted in social media or direct threats since the beginning of the school year, as a wave of school threats washes over the country.

Law enforcement has found most of them baseless, some coming from out of state. Nonetheless, no corner of the commonwealth has been left untouched.

Threats have been investigated all over Virginia from Richmond, Virginia Beach, and Fairfax counties, to Danville and Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, Roanoke and Lynchburg, Smyth and Wise counties, Orange and Spotsylvania counties, and Northumberland and Richmond counties.

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