Laurel Highlands High School cleared after bomb threat
Students and faculty were evacuated from Laurel Highlands High School after a bomb threat was made in the girls bathroom Tuesday afternoon.
State police and bomb dogs cleared the school after a bomb threat was made on a wall of the girl蘑菇视频 bathroom at Laurel Highlands High School Tuesday afternoon. Students were evacuated to the football field and were eventually released at normal dismissal time.
Within hours of a Laurel Highlands student蘑菇视频 preliminary hearing on bomb threat charges, a student found a similar threat on a bathroom wall in the high school Tuesday.
The school was evacuated for the second time in about five weeks for a bomb threat. Laurel Highlands School District Superintendent Jesse Wallace said a student found the note scrawled on a stall in the girls鈥� bathroom. Another student confessed to writing it, he said.
The students were evacuated to the football stadium at about 1:15 p.m.
Wallace said the students left the school at normal time after buses picked up the students at the stadium.
State police bomb dogs cleared the scene, but remained at the school for training.
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Tuesday morning, Celena Renee Hale, 18, of Uniontown waived her charges of making a bomb threat Sept. 12 in Fayette County Central Court.
She is charged with terroristic threats causing evacuation, bomb threats and disorderly conduct.
She is free on a $25,000 unsecured bond.